Felonious Python
Minor League Degenerate
- Aug 20, 2004
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I don't mean to imply that all the fans are ultras, or jumping around all game, or that politics overwhelms every team in European pro soccer. The top leagues especially have a lot of potential money on the line, and Serie A or the Premier League want big international TV deals. Extreme politics isn't good for business.I'd say soccer matches not being family friendly events is more or less a misconception that only really applies to certain matchups outside the biggest European soccer leagues, as well as some national team matchups (which you can figure out by passing a 5th grade history class).
The German league works a bit differently to other top leagues, but the Premier League for example has a very NA style approach to ripping the customer out of their money and not caring about the "true" supporters not affording to go to games anymore. Like LS said unless you're sitting, or well, standing, in a certain block dedicated to the biggest supporters of a team, you're not going to stand out by just behaving like you'd do at an NHL game.
It's just that any semblance of that in pro sports is completely foreign to US families, at any point. They wouldn't be comfortable with it being in the same building.
And part of that includes spending potentially hundreds of dollars on a game, just to see a tie (if they don't leave early).
I've heard plenty of new and casual fans correlate a 'good' game as being a win. No matter how the events transpire, or how boring it was, or how poorly they actually played. A win is good entertainment. A loss is bad entertainment. Ties would break brains. It'd be soccer.