As the man said, why have one when you can have two for twice the price? The USA is wealthy enough for it to shrug off a lot of mistakes; fighting the war with two finicky, underpowered, resource-intensive bombers would make a noticeable dent.
Most of the damage will be done before the war by sucking up limited development and procurement funds. However useful it ends up being I'd doubt it'd be as useful as the stuff you could have had instead.
Pro/rel is pretty incompatible with traditional American league system; no owner would invest invest in pro franchise if there was any possibility of it turning into a minor franchise. That's one of the reasons the MLS didn't adopt it when it was created.
I had been bullied for years and reached the point where I finally had enough and fought back.
Unfortunately that time was two weeks after Columbine. I didn't end up as fucked as kids in this TL, but it was pretty unpleasant.
The biggest issue for any soccer league in the US is that it's the only sport in the country that has a governing body. The NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB can make whatever changes they want and there's no one who can say no. The OTL American Soccer league wanted to make some changes (a penalty box and...
My guess is that Responsible Government wins in the 1948 referendum, and the Economic Union party wins a majority of seats in parliament. It'll be really interesting to see how this would affect US-UK-Canadian relations.
I wonder what an "Eyes Turned Downward" timeline would look like if the US ended crewed spaceflight after Apollo. How long would the Soviets continue sending people up if there wasn't any more competition? Would there be more observatories and planetary missions? A Saturn V Centaur powered...
If the American Soccer League can avoid the soccer wars and survive the depression and WWII they would in a very good position to offer lots of programming to the nascent television networks desperate for things to televise. If soccer ends up the third most popular sport in the country after...