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Gotta agree with NJDevils 100%. Unfortunately, I imagine the major American sports will follow suit sooner or later.

Small price to pay for a sport that doesn't have commercials. (except halftime obviously)

  From a casual observer of soccer who doesn't recognize teams by their unis:   Last time I turned on a soccer game, I thought Schweppes was playing Nestle's.

 NJDevils. You are not far off. It is common for any soccer team to pick up its main sponsor's name for a season or two or even more. Even major national leagues pick up sponsor names. Its like, instead of Major League Baseball, it would be Budwiser Baseball League for a year and then Chevrolette Baseball League the next.

Hey guys, soccer is not an American sport. It has different culture, and goes with a different train of thought. You can't compare sponsorships that way.

 Soccer is an American sport.   Futbol is not.     Seriously though, most professional teams in the US and Canada (basball, football, basketball, hockey) do not have "sponsors".   These teams merely have owners.   The sponsors are for TV, radio and advertising in the stadium.     I simply hate advertising on unis.  If Europeans and South Americans have no problem with it, that is their prerogative.

  I am only speaking of current major leagues in north america, baseball, hockey, football, basketball.   Heck, when I played little league, we had an oil company's name on it.   My point is professional major leagues with ads on the unis look cheap.     I understand that semi-pro teams had to have adverstising on the unis years ago.   Before the Chicago Bears there was the Chicago Staleys.     All I am saying is that you have a major professional team in any sport, class it up a bit and take the advertising off.   But if soccer feels a need for this, fine.

 NJ I beg to differ. Soccer is not an American sport. The word soccer comes from England. Long ago when soccer and rugby was played in public schools, and were considerred the same game called FOOTBALL. The rules were not clear. I don't know who proposed it, but when a bunch of men got together at the University of Cambridge and came up with a bunch of rules for what is considerred today what you call soccer. What came away from that meeting was not agreed upon by all. They split into two groups. One was called rugby because, I believe, the guys that went away upset, were from a town or school called "rugby". I don't remember which. The rest from that meeting, set up an association. From that piont on, one was called "rugby football", and the other was called "association football". People who played association football were called "soccers" for short because the word "soccer" comes from the "soc" in association. Over the years, association football gained so much popularity they just called it football. The word "futbol" you see, is just the phonetic spelling of the word "football" in spanish. They never changed the actual name of the game. The word "soccer" was revived here in North America because Amercan football already had the name. Everywhere else it's still called football except here.

I already stated that 2 comments back:

NJDevils wrote:  Soccer is an American sport.   Futbol is not.     Seriously though, most professional teams in the US and Canada (basball, football, basketball, hockey) do not have "sponsors".   These teams merely have owners.   The sponsors are for TV, radio and advertising in the stadium.     I simply hate advertising on unis.  If Europeans and South Americans have no problem with it, that is their prerogative.