why do you think it is, that soccer just isnt that "big" here in the states.  It's obviously "huge" elsewhere.  Just curious why that is?

Popular American sports all involve use of the 'hands' (including our own sport, lol!).
Think about it, the four big money-makers: football, basketball, baseball, hockey.
Soccer offers this only on a marginal level.

Other great point mentioned (as well as here) is the amount of offense.
Brings another prospective to the old addage, "Offense sells seats, but defense wins championships".

It has nothing to do with anything, just came to me. That's how interested I am in soccer.

I can understand why it's popular in most of the world, because most of the world couldn't afford more than a ball to kick around the streets.  So you make do as best you can, and if you grow up with that, then you will always have an interest in it.

I even played it as a student, like many American school kids, but was happy to move on to more complex games like football, basketball, and every other game ever invented other than soccer!  I'd gladly watch game of dodgeball before I'd watch a soccer game.

Ditto.

I watched the USA - England game, as well as Algieria - Slovenia.  Same old boring bullsh*t as always...few scoring opportunities, 1 - 1 and
1 -0, with two of those goals coming on errors by the goaltenders.  And don't get me started on those annoying kazoos...  

Personally, I'll take real football, baseball, hockey, hoops, racing, golf, tennis, etc., over soccer any day.  What the rest of the world sees in this game escapes me...I'd rather watch paint dry....zzzz.

Soccer as a sport has a lot in common with basketball.

Do you remember college basketball BEFORE the shot clock? Some teams would endlessly pass the ball around for minutes at a time, waiting for the perfect entry pass and an opportunity to score. Dean Smith and UNC elevated it to an art form - the Four Corners offense.

College basketball realized how boring it was to watch all that passing, and mandated the shot clock. Now college basketball and the Final Four is one of the major events in the sporting calendar.

So it's not that soccer doesn't score enough, it's that there are not enough scoring ATTEMPTS! Not enough shots on goal. The simple solution is to institute a shot clock in soccer. Imagine if the team with possession had to shoot within 45 seconds, or lose possession. That would shake things up in a very positive manner.

i'd come over and take it from you !!!!

Baseball is NOT complex hahaha it's just as boring hockey... *yawwnnn*

don't get me started on 2 seconds of football play... *yawwwwwwnnnnnn*

but i looove basketball !!