Ooh, there's this thing called 'soccer' in the US

AP has broken out a story about the soccer-specific stadium building boomlet that MLS is undergoing at the moment. The nut graf: essentially that MLS can't ever be taken seriously in sports until it gets its own houses.

Which is true, to a certain point. Nothin bugs me more than watching a futbol game on a football field, complete with NFL team logo in the center. Also, the narrower boundaries of football mess me up. It's not a thing now, but come August, ugh, there we go again. But there's no way that MLS can even think about being an athletic equal with other sports without their own turf. Very much reminds me of high school PE, where the girls get to use the equipment only after the boys are through with it.

Of course, note that the story wasn't written by a sportswriter, but by an AP national writer. This was a feature, not a sports story. And that's still part of the problem there, with soccer still being considered by some not as a professional adult sport. Part of the problem with getting soccer and MLS accepted in the US is getting very anti-soccer sports departments of various news outlets to stop with the futbol discrimination and start sacrificing more than a half-inch of space to coverage.