The Soccer Bowl was the championship game of the North American Soccer League from 1975 to 1983. This event was tagged by NASL Commissioner Phil Woosnam who was trying to build a neutral-site championship event in the mold of the NFL's Super Bowl NASL logo North American Soccer League (NASL) was a professional American soccer league that operated from 1968 to 1984. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... The winning Super Bowl team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy. ...
Unlike the Super Bowl, the game was not denoted by Roman Numerals but the last two digits of the year would be used to denote what game it was.
As they hit financial problems, 1984 (in what would be the league's final year) saw the NASL abandon the neutral-site format for a Best of 3 series played at each team's home field.
However, as Bowling Alone reports, when we add up the youth sports that are growing and those that are declining, all the evidence points to a net decline in youth sports participation over the last decade or two.
Moreover, the numbers of soccer parents (though growing) are still tiny, compared to the declines in other forms of community involvement in America.
When you take your kids to soccer games, you end up sitting on the sidelines and possibly talking to one other mom or dad and the conversation is fairly sporadic as you cheer and encourage the tykes.
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