Will EPL coverage on NBC kill off Major League Soccer?

[renard_ruse]

With Americans now having the most extensive coverage of the top soccer league in the world, the English Premier League, with a free to air game every Saturday and several games on cable each week, why would anyone still follow the minor league MLS?

One can only hope, since MLS helped kill off the great American sport of indoor soccer in the 90s. Indoor soccer is far superior to outdoor soccer and much more suited to American sports tastes. Maybe it will come back once MLS goes the way of NASL.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

A rising tide lifts all ships.

 

[phrodeau]

Because the most interesting programming is broadcast at 3 in the morning?

 

[renard_ruse]

Because the most interesting programming is broadcast at 3 in the morning?

It was on at 10am Pacific time last weekend, which is mid-day on the east coast.

 

[renard_ruse]

A rising tide lifts all ships.

I don't believe so. MLS didn't help the MISL or CISL in the 90s, it killed it off.

MLS is a minor league, Americans don't care to watch a minor league in a sport most of them don't particularly like anyway.

 

[pete]

With Americans now having the most extensive coverage of the top soccer league in the world, the English Premier League

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

I don't believe so. MLS didn't help the MISL or CISL in the 90s, it killed it off.

MLS is a minor league, Americans don't care to watch a minor league in a sport most of them don't particularly like anyway.

All empirical data says you're wrong.

 

[marshalt]

Soccer sucks.