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Exactly what Blu said. It may have the investors, the stadiums, and TV deals, but all that will go away if the public doesn't show up. The Beckham deal may have increased awareness in the short term, but for the teams that don't have Beckham, is it really going to do much late in the season...

Soccer fans care about him. But, there aren't a lot of professional soccer fans in the U.S. And as mentioned, that huge salary had the most to do with the headlines for the deal. Beckham is huge in the world of soccer, but the U.S. doesn't care about soccer. I'd probably say 80% of the...

I'm another who played soccer in the 70's and early 80's, and have always been surprised it hasn't caught on. Even today, more kids play it than baseball and football, yet most people didn't even know LA had a team before this. (And I lived near Hartford in the time of the Hellions and...