<p>Hello all,
Its Saturday today and for me its football time. Soccer is life and my life would have no meaning if not for the Barclays Premier league. Here in Africa the world game is cherished and loved but I hear that in America people are not too enthusiastic about football. So are there any football fans in Cornell? If so, is there a place to watch the English Premier league live? I love Cornell but I'm afraid this could be a deal breaker. Please respond.
Long live Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U, Man citeh, Liverpool, Villa, West ham, Blackburn, Sunderland, Everton, Bolton, Spurs, Hull, Stoke, Birmingham, Burnley, Wolves, Wigan, Portsmouth and all the championship teams. Ole Ole Ole Ole....</p>
<p>Let me put it this way - that last sentence might as well be a strange alien dialect to most Americans. </p>
<p>If following a sport is that fundamental to your life, you should know that we don’t care about football. They’ve tried for decades to make us care and, it’s safe to say, we never will. Much the way Europeans will never really care about American football. </p>
<p>The general attitude is that football (soccer) is a really boring game and that the crowd antics are so fundamental to the experience because what’s happening on the field isn’t engaging enough. Then again, we like baseball.</p>
<p>I’m not interjecting my personal opinion or saying they’re right - just telling you what you will encounter in most of the U.S. </p>
<p>There are obviously people who follow it and, especially at a diverse school like Cornell with a sizable international student population, you will be able to find a niche of people who crowd around TVs at 7 in the morning to watch World Cup. It just will not dominate the culture.</p>
<p>If you are determined to go to school in the U.S., I would suggest you consider schools in / near Washington, DC. DC has a large international community and there is a strong culture of both ex pats and Americans that fills bars throughout the city during big games. I remember a football-nut friend who lived there used to go to a stadium to watch World Cup games with small but passionate crowds chanting and singing and all that. </p>
<p>There are a lot of good schools in DC - George Washington, American University, Georgetown (closest equivalent to Cornell), George Mason, Catholic, University of Maryland - College Park, and others.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I clicked on this because I thought you were talking about football. I was mistaken.</p>
<p>i’m sure other international students will be passionate about football/soccer. i have some friends who do watch it, but i think you may have a hard time finding tons of people who are hardcore into it.</p>
<p>A lot of my friends on my floor follow soccer, and they play FIFA on my friends XBOX at least once a day (not saying that means anything, just saying there are people who follow/play the sport). The school also has a pretty large range of both Intramural and Club Soccer teams, so fans definitely exist on campus.</p>
<p>I’m rooting for the Bengals.</p>
<p>first off: liverpool > all 
second off: there’s a significant international population here that DOES follow football. major games (ie: national games, champions league and maybe some man utd, chelsea & arsenal) might be broadcast on espn - but don’t count on it being played in the common areas with TV. if you get a TV and subscribe to the package, i believe you get fox soccer channel, which shows football all day everyday.</p>
<p>I’m an Eagles fan personally.</p>