Why's Cricket Underrated in the US?

[Jaden_66]

Cricket has a wonderful audiance of billions of fans around the globe, but only 1% of total population of the US knows about cricket. Why is this so?

 

[PGen98]

For the same reason proper football is chronically underrated here, they have an alternative in baseball. Baseball is super popular here, so cricket took a backseat, same with pesapallo in Finland. Why they don't make room for Cricket, I've no idea, because it is a fantastic sport, but that's the way it goes, sadly.

 

[preacherbob]

Cricket is actually finding a small foothold in the U.S.
From my understanding there will be around 24-25 professional teams throughout the country by 2022. Of course, wherever there are professional teams there will be minor and farm teams.

I guess we’ll see how well they do but traditionally, most Americans are not suited for any sport (or anything else) that goes beyond 3 hours.
I mean, we can’t even sit still and eat for over 5 minutes and lord help the Burger King outlet that takes over 30 seconds to prepare it!.
And speaking of that, if anyone has observed how long it takes for some people to read what they want on the above menu, how much time to ya think it will take for that same person to figure out the terminology used in Cricket?

 

[LBJ]

I had a cricket that somehow crawled underneath the kitchen floorboards. All night long I had to listen to "creek, creek, creek". It was slowly driving me nuts until one day the little bastard finally moved on. (hold on here, I think I we might be talking about another type of cricket....sorry, my bad)

 

[preacherbob]

I had a cricket that somehow crawled underneath the kitchen floorboards. All night long I had to listen to "creek, creek, creek". It was slowly driving me nuts until one day the little bastard finally moved on. (hold on here, I think I we might be talking about another type of cricket....sorry, my bad)

You gotta give a little leeway to them for after all, who can bust a critter that has to rub it’s two hind legs together to find a mate?
I mean, if we had to do that we’d all still be virgins or maybe have to go to Walmart or some such to buy a mate.

I say, better the crickets than the cicadas.

 

[PGen98]

Cricket is actually finding a small foothold in the U.S.
From my understanding there will be around 24-25 professional teams throughout the country by 2022. Of course, wherever there are professional teams there will be minor and farm teams.

I guess we’ll see how well they do but traditionally, most Americans are not suited for any sport (or anything else) that goes beyond 3 hours.
I mean, we can’t even sit still and eat for over 5 minutes and lord help the Burger King outlet that takes over 30 seconds to prepare it!.
And speaking of that, if anyone has observed how long it takes for some people to read what they want on the above menu, how much time to ya think it will take for that same person to figure out the terminology used in Cricket?

The terminology in cricket is far less complex than the terminology thrown around in an American football game

 

[Jaden_66]

Cricket is actually finding a small foothold in the U.S.
From my understanding there will be around 24-25 professional teams throughout the country by 2022. Of course, wherever there are professional teams there will be minor and farm teams.

I guess we’ll see how well they do but traditionally, most Americans are not suited for any sport (or anything else) that goes beyond 3 hours.
I mean, we can’t even sit still and eat for over 5 minutes and lord help the Burger King outlet that takes over 30 seconds to prepare it!.
And speaking of that, if anyone has observed how long it takes for some people to read what they want on the above menu, how much time to ya think it will take for that same person to figure out the terminology used in Cricket?

That is so on point ?. Like this actually didn't came in my mind when I thought of posting this thread.

 

[Jaden_66]

I had a cricket that somehow crawled underneath the kitchen floorboards. All night long I had to listen to "creek, creek, creek". It was slowly driving me nuts until one day the little bastard finally moved on. (hold on here, I think I we might be talking about another type of cricket....sorry, my bad)

Yeah that definitely is a different type of cricket ?

 

[preacherbob]

The terminology in cricket is far less complex than the terminology thrown around in an American football game

Yeah, maybe. It’s not only the terminology that bothers me most but the rules too.
You see, in Baseball the pitcher is the guy who pitches but in cricket the pitch is a piece of ground and the pitcher is a bowler. Which, adds some complications because a bowler is someone who is trying to hit 10 pins with a big round 12#+ ball and drinks a lot of beer whilst doing it.

Now, are we talking about football or football? I mean, football here involves 2 teams who want a ball so badly that they are willing to nearly kill each other to have it when i know that everyone of those players can afford their own ball. I digress.
When a player does get the ball he tries to run it down field toward a goal unless he gets afraid someone is going to tackle him and then he can throw, or pitch, the ball to another player who has to be behind him which serves as the antithesis of the whole venture in the first place. Again, I digress dearly.
Okay, so when someone does get across the goal he doesn’t get just one point but he gets 6 which doesn’t make sense because it’s just one ball and one player so the most they should get is 2 points.
The overview would be that whomever gets the least amount of penalties wins but the game isn’t as good as when there’s a dozen or so technical fouls in which we find at least one player’s head sitting on the field sans his body.

If you mean Soccer, then we have peaceful players who can run for hours and just want to kick the ball with their heads (of all places) and their feet and can’t use their hands which brings up the question of ‘why did God give men hands if he can’t use them to play with a ball? (did I word that right? dunno).
Now, apart from the terminology, I find it most upsetting that it isn’t the players who are trying to kill each other but the people in the stands after the game is totally over.
The thing is, my understanding is that the fans do not get any points at all for killing each other and can even go to jail which make me wonder which one is playing the real game, the fans or the players?