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Personally I love Hockey, but I think the reason most don't like it is that most never play it. I mean the sport that 99% of Americans play when friends and familys get together is football (American Football, not Football/soccer). Most people in America will never even get on an ice rink let alone play hockey. It's just the way it is. It's the same reason a lot of white Americans don't like basketball. We never play it. The negros are all so good that we never grow a love for it.
Also, Hockey just goes back and forth. I mean the puck is on the other side every dozen seconds or so and their is not a big build up to actually scoring. With Football, you get a slow (or occasionally fast and exciting) progression towards the endzone. It usually builds suspense.
As for Baseball, that is really only popular is a very select few areas....Boston...well all of Mass really. New York, LA, and a couple of other places are the only ones who give a rat's ass about their baseball teams. There is an illusion that Americans like baseball, when in fact, unless it's a special moment or big climax of baseball history, no one knows or cares. Most everyone I know thinks Baseball is the most boring sport ever (and I agree, though it's a great drinking game). Really the only sport Americans go nuts for is American Football...and when I say go nuts, I mean we get excited a fraction of how much most of the rest of the world gets about Football (soccer).
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