Americans see the sense of the Round Ball.

We've all seen and still see the innane, fearful and just plain ignorant attempts at Australia's finest sports journalists to mock or run down the game of football.

Why? Well you have to ask Peter FitzSimon, Roy Masters, Andrew Stevenson, Rebecca Wilson, Mike Sheehan and all the others why they have done it over the years. Seems football, although incredibly popular at all levels in Australia has become popular inspite of any mainstream support.

No mean achievement.

And America has had a similar fear.

The latest article is written here, but unlike most Aussie articles it actually has the ability to see the benefits of the game to our children.
And of course as football becomes increasingly mainstream in Australia it is the junior base that gives the game it's increasing advantage.

Not to mention the increasing number of younger media who are able to enjoy and write positively about more than one code.

Soccer is a self-inflicted wound. Americans have nobody to blame but themselves. Conservative suburban families, the backbone of America, have turned to soccer in droves. Baseball is too intimidating, football too brutal, and basketball takes too much time to develop the required skills.

American parents in the past several decades are overworked and exhausted, but their children are overweight and neglected. Soccer is the perfect antidote to television and video games. It forces kids to run and run, and everyone can play their role, no matter how minor or irrelevant to the game. Soccer and television are the peanut butter and jelly of parenting.

And what America does....Australia follows! Rejoice.