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re: Super Bowl ratings have come in
Posted on 2/5/13 at 11:54 am to bullet tooth tony
Posted on 2/5/13 at 11:54 am to bullet tooth tony
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I live in NOLA and I see more Messi jerseys worn by kids than anything besides Brees and Graham.
I'm sorry but this is the funniest shite in this thread.
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Posted on 2/5/13 at 11:58 am to Bho
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I can't believe nobody commented on the jackholes that said soccer isn't tv friendly. Not only is it very tv friendly, it's life friendly. Start, play 45 minutes, halftime, commercials, start 2nd half, play 45 minutes.
That is not TV network friendly. The networks want regular breaks in play, like acts in a sitcom.
Visually, soccer is not very well suited to TV either. But then neither is baseball.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 11:59 am to 225bred
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lol, oh the ignorance
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:02 pm to Bho
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End game. I know I only have to set aside 2 hours to watch the game. Really not that much. Instead you have 5 hour college football games with lots of commercials and lots of downtime between plays
This is so true, its a great sport to watch
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:08 pm to bullet tooth tony
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Did you even know what the World Cup was 20-30 years ago. NO. Now every single game is televised by ESPN and ABC and "you" probably even watched it when the USA was playing
The only reason I know what it is now, is because I can't wait for it to end so that ESPN quits shoving something else that the majority of Americans don't want to watch down our throats.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:11 pm to Bho
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Instead you have 5 hour college football games
No you don't.
FTR, I don't like soccer that much, but am certainly not anti soccer. As boring as it is to watch (to me), I can definitely get into US Soccer if we're in the WC or something like that. I view it similar to Olympic sports for me...shite I normally wouldn't like but can get into every now and then (and certainly when it's a U.S. team).
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:17 pm to CocomoLSU
I've only watched one World Cup and that was in 2010 at work to kill time. Really the only reason why I acknowledged it is because we (the US) were in it and I'm a patriot. After we were eliminated, I didn't acknowledge it again. 99.9% of Americans did the same.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:19 pm to Tim Taylor
Soccer may be the second most popular sport in the 12-24 demographic but how many watch it when it's on television? There's a difference between liking a sport because you play it and actually watching that sport on television. I played soccer when I was little, I like soccer now, but if it's not USA vs. Whoever in the World Cup then I'm not watching it.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:20 pm to Tim Taylor
I watched the 2010 World Cup at a pub in London with 2 other Americans and a shitton of crazy English people. When their goalie let the ball slip through his fingers, I thought we were going to get shanked.
good times.
good times.
This post was edited on 2/5/13 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:20 pm to Tim Taylor
What's funny is that you make some (few, but some) good arguments in this thread, but then you spew off shite like this:
...and it completely ruins any legit arguments you had from being taken seriously.
Sure, soccer isn't one of the most popular sports in America, but it's growing and people do watch it. Just because you don't doesn't mean "99.9% of Americans" do the same.
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After we were eliminated, I didn't acknowledge it again. 99.9% of Americans did the same.
...and it completely ruins any legit arguments you had from being taken seriously.
Sure, soccer isn't one of the most popular sports in America, but it's growing and people do watch it. Just because you don't doesn't mean "99.9% of Americans" do the same.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:23 pm to CocomoLSU
I am going to go ahead and agree with the guy above and say a majority of Americans tuned out when we were eliminated from contention in the 2010 World Cup.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:27 pm to RedHawk
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ESPN quits shoving something else that the majority of Americans don't want to watch down our throats.
Im guessing you would rather watch the crossfit games
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:30 pm to Tim Taylor
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99.9% of Americans did the same.
Lulz. And you accused us of making up stats.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:35 pm to WarSlamEagle
yeah not 99.9 but definitely more than half the people who watched the US vs England and US vs African nation #37 did not watch any other World Cup game after the US was eliminated
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:41 pm to RollTide1987
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Soccer may be the second most popular sport in the 12-24 demographic but how many watch it when it's on television? There's a difference between liking a sport because you play it and actually watching that sport on television. I played soccer when I was little, I like soccer now, but if it's not USA vs. Whoever in the World Cup then I'm not watching it.
Bingo. Hell I enjoyed kicking a ball around with my little cousins and they do to, but when football comes on, that shite is old news in a hurry.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:42 pm to CocomoLSU
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Sure, soccer isn't one of the most popular sports in America, but it's growing and people do watch it. Just because you don't doesn't mean "99.9% of Americans" do the same.
Less than a million people watched the MLS Cup this year. High school football games on ESPNU on Friday nights get more viewers than that.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:42 pm to saintsfan92612
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did not watch any other World Cup game after the US was eliminated
The 2010 World Cup Final pulled a 6.9 on ESPN, 24.3 million viewers.
The US-Ghana game, the one that knocked us out, had 19.4 million viewers.
The Euro 2012 final, a competition that doesn't even feature America, got 4.5 million viewers.
This post was edited on 2/5/13 at 12:49 pm
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:44 pm to Tim Taylor
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Less than a million people watched the MLS Cup this year. High school football games on ESPNU on Friday nights get more viewers than that.
Link?
I know reading comprehension isn't your thing, but plenty of people have said in here that MLS is a 17-year-old league that is considered third-tier in the world. More American soccer fans watch the Champions League, Premier League, and World Cup.
Find a new angle, bruh.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:48 pm to Tim Taylor
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99.9% of Americans did the same.
Really? Think about that.
Posted on 2/5/13 at 12:49 pm to WarSlamEagle
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The 2010 World Cup Final pulled a 6.9 on ESPN, 24.3 million viewers.
Not according to this article:
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Sunday’s 2010 FIFA World Cup Final on ABC – a 1-0 victory by Spain in extra time over the Netherlands – ranks as the most-watched Men's World Cup game ever. Based on Fast Nationals from The Nielsen Company, ABC's telecast delivered an 8.1 household rating, 9,389,000 households, and 15,545,000 viewers for the two-hour game window (2:30-5 p.m. ET). Only the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final (U.S.-China from the Rose Bowl) averaged more households and viewers for a soccer game – 11,307,000 and 17,975,000, respectively.
Just to give you some context - the 2010 World Cup Final drew only 3 million more viewers than the Alabama-LSU game this past season.
The 1999 Women's World Cup remained the most watched soccer match in U.S. history until the 2011 match between the USA and Japan.
This post was edited on 2/5/13 at 12:51 pm
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