`in... division 2 or something like that, and all teams can move, or be relegated. It's all this ``professional`` stuff, when you dont give the same chance to everyone. For example this year a what would be maybe called ``farm team`` (Brommapojkarna) with one of the best youth academy in Sweden. Went to the highest division of Swedish football. Something that isnt possible in USA (right?).     The real reason why soccer is not popular in the US is that advertisers have to wait until half-time to screen commercials, making it financially unattractive. As the Bedford Reader puts it:  The reason stems partly from the basic nature of  commercial television which exists not to inform and entertain but to sell. During most major sporting events on television- football, baseball, basketball, producers can take advantage of natural interruptions in the action  to broadcast sales pitches; or if the natural breaks occur too infrequently, the producers can contrive time-outs for the sole purpose of airing lucrative commercials. But soccer is played in two soled halves of forty-five minutes each: not even injury to a player is cause for a time-out. How, then, to insert the requisite number of commercial breaks without resorting to false fouls or other questionable tactic? After CBS aired a soccer match in 1967, players reported, according to Stanley Frank, that before the game the referee had instructed them ``to stay down every nine minutes.`` The resulting hue and cry rose all the way to the House Communications Subcommittee. From that day to this, no one has been able to figure out how to screen advertising jingles during a televised soccer game. The result is that commercial television has treated soccer almost as if didn't exist.    ::I notice no mention was made of the NHL? Three 20 minute periods? It is though a weak argument though as there are advert breaks in every commercial TV station no matter what the country, the United States is no different in that regard to other contries, all of whom manage to obtain lucrative advertising for football matches. Sky Sports in the UK for instance make full use of advert breaks, such as when the teams come out onto the pitch before the match, they immediately go to an ad break. Big matches attract huge advertising. ·   ==top of talk page banner== The banner is incorrect. To my knowledge there has never been a vote on moving this page to association football.   :See Voting is evil and Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion. Wikipedia works by discussion and consensus, not votes. The naming issue has been discussed to death many times over the last 4 years that I've been here, always with the same result.      ::Well almost - I've been here and contributed to this page since September 2001 (correction August 2002) (under another name) and what has been discussed to death is moving it to football or to soccer. The argument for ``association football`` is a valid one and has never been tested for its popularity, other than people saying ``we have discussed the issue to death`` and ``let sleeping dogs lie``, the compromise of the current name was chosen to quell a big argument  and not on its own merit. It was a poor compromise. in my opinion. The banner is incorrect.    ::: I believe we have discussed a move to association football as well. That discussion should be found either in the archives here or in the football project talk page archives. –  •  •  •   ::: I've only been watching this page since last year and it's already come up more than enough times, maybe you didn't notice it?   ::::There - you're just doing exactly what I said has been done again - people saying ``we have discussed the issue to death`` and ``let sleeping dogs lie`` - That is not proper debate - on merit, which is what I'm talking about.    ::::: But you initially said that it was never voted (or discussed) on, which