They did that with cricket. They have a short-form game they play. No wonder cricket is taking-off in the US.
I think if you took CM Punk and Clint Dempsey, TONIGHT, in front of an audience at Madison Square Garden, CM Punk would get the louder reaction.
This morning while grabbing breakfast some fucking hipster was telling the mexican at the register about how American Cameramen "can't get it right" and how they would be recording areas away from the ball and was trying to figure out how to watch the Latin american feed.
Next time look like a real genius and tell him FIFA is producing all of matches in house, and everyone is seeing the same feed, only the announcers are different. This is a relatively recent development though. http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/tv/hostbroadcasting.html
