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NASL was a joke with the Cosmos landing all the talent.  That team, intriguing as it was, sounded the death knell of the league.

Plus, and this is meant as a realistic observation and nothing more, Pele was a black/dark man with limited English in 1975 America.  David Beckham is more like Brad Pitt than he is Pele.  Throw in the wife and you have Hollywood A-List and then some.  It's kinda sick and wrong but it is what it is.

Did you see all the wannabees at that match last night?  It's the first time since the Cosmos that a soccer match was the place to be in the United States - and I include the '94 World Cup.

Beckham's arrival has significant draw power for the game.  The Galaxy sold something like 15,000 season tickets in the last month or two.  The rest of the league will sell out when the Galaxy come to town.  And, the big thing, more big names will come to America.  I include coaches such as Steve Nicholl in that.  The league definitely needs more managerial talent and I think they'll get it.

This is big IMO.  Will it ever top football?  No chance.  Baseball?  No chance.  Basketball?  Maybe, that sport at the pro level is in trouble I think.  If it wasn't in the winter when people are forced indoors I think it would sink.  We have 300 million people and more kids playing soccer than probably any other country.  It'll come.  The U.S. should be a world power in this sport.  This move nudges things a little bit closer.

25 years I say.

Hey, you're awful happy for a Socceroos supporter this weekend. 

I'm not sure I share whiskey's positive rasta vibrations, having been through this before, and let down miserably.

There are too many factors involved to guess at becks' ultimate legacy to US soccer, least of which is can he still play? 250 million bones goes a long way towards the "yeah...ummm...i'm done" mentality.

I hope he does draw more big names, I hope he does play well and ignite a nation, but i've hoped this before.

Either way at the end of the day, if we're comparing No: 23's, one of them is a superstar and the other is some ponce named David Beckham

We're talking about that game where guys in short shorts, and shirts with nearly as many ads on them as NASCAR drivers' fire suits, kick a volleyball around a park and that dudes with funny accents call "futball," right?

Hater poser.

Only a hard core fan would call it a park.  You're fooling nobody.

'Pitch' is the actual turf field, 'park' is the stadium and everything it entails.  Almost-Poser!