Beckham = 250 million?

I don't usually talk about soccer on this blog, except when it's related to the World Cup (easily the greatest tournament in the world), so maybe the 250 million dollars that the LA Galaxy are paying Beckham is working...except I know better. Or actually, I think this may work. We still have hockey, right?

So 1,000 new season tickets were sold, the club averages 22-23k in a 27k stadium, so expect full sell outs and sell outs on the road for games where Beckham plays, expect to see Beckham in commercials, on TV shows, talk shows, even movies and whatever else LA is willing to do for him...and what I was originally going to say was, just like the grand time of US soccer, when the Cosmo's ruled the streets in the late 70's but then folded when all the big stars brought over from Europe retired, the same is going to happen here--you know, history repeats itself and what not. Except I think things are changing here in America.

Soccer is becoming more acceptable, noticeable, more relevant...and as the US team improves--both men and women--then the mainstream audience will tune in. Soccer is a popular youth sport, the problem being once those youths grow up. Having a star like Beckham around can retain a fan from when he or she was playing soccer as a ten year old...for life. Beckham is one of those stars who can become a true spokesperson for their sport, and with the combined good looks of him and his wife giving everyone in America something to look at, well...who knows. You know what I always say, what the lotto says...anything is possible.

Can America learn to love soccer? Most of me says probably not, but a part of me, the tiny part that still remembers playing soccer on Sunday afternoons...that part of me says hell yeah, bring it on.