Americans or rather US Citizens like Baseball and Football (American Football to other countries) and even Hockey over Soccer (Football to other countries) because of the marketing of the other sports. Baseball is as American as Apple Pie. We hardly see any Soccer marketing in the US, and hard any mercandice. Yet we have Soccer Moms who drive kids to play PeeWee Soccer, etc. Soccer should be more popular, but doesn't have the money the other sports have.