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re: Cape Verde beats Spain 0-0
Posted on 6/15/26 at 4:58 pm to NighthawkDawg
Posted on 6/15/26 at 4:58 pm to NighthawkDawg
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Draw but this is the college football equivalent of Georgia State beating Alabama or Georgia on the road
no it isn't
This post was edited on 6/15/26 at 4:59 pm
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Posted on 6/15/26 at 5:07 pm to moneyg
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This post is the equivalent of me explaining a punchline to you
The response was to this post:
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This is probably equivalent to Lehigh beating Duke in the NCAA tournament
Posted on 6/15/26 at 5:12 pm to Alt26
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The response was to this post:
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This is probably equivalent to Lehigh beating Duke in the NCAA tournament
You need me to explain it to you again?
Posted on 6/15/26 at 5:13 pm to WestCoastAg
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what a great sport yall have there
I'm not trying to convince you that Soccer is a great sport.
I don't care one way or another if you like soccer. Frankly, on the scale of soccer fan, I'm probably a 4.
But, IMO, the World Cup is awesome. And, this World Cup has been especially awesome.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 6:03 pm to Alt26
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The fact that a 0-0 ties qualifies as "the coolest moment in the tournament so far" is kind of indicative of why soccer isn't as beloved in the US as other places. Even if the result was unexpected. You're going to have a tough time convincing most American sports fans that 90+ minutes of no scoring and no winner/loser is a great event.
This right here.
The fact that the futbol purists cannot understand why a majority of Americans feel that way is just odd. Soccer is boring. The Europeans, and even a ton of Americans, say the same about baseball. Hell, people outside the US think American Football is boring due to the constant start-stop flow of a game.
People like different things.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 6:20 pm to IAmNERD
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The fact that the futbol purists cannot understand why a majority of Americans feel that way is just odd. Soccer is boring. The Europeans, and even a ton of Americans, say the same about baseball. Hell, people outside the US think American Football is boring due to the constant start-stop flow of a game.
Soccer is played and followed more than any sport, by a mile, and is the clear cut most popular sport on the planet.
Even with the rise of Basketball, and the world’s most coordinated cross continental marketing efforts in the history of sport, soccer is enormously more popular.
I don’t know anyone who thought the US performance the other night was boring. The US played an atypical style, heavy on the attack, and had very good athletes all over the field doing shite like behind the back redirected passes at running speed in open field to set up strikes that scored, lobbing bombs over the top to guys who could catch it with their feet, incredible ball control done at full speed. There was a defender who completed 83 straight passes, breaking a 60 year old accuracy record.
American perception has been molded by decades of seeing a defensive posture, playing on their heels, with limited attack. This is not that, and it is not boring. Watching teams play like this US team played is highly entertaining to several billion people. Baseball offers nothing of the sort of that kind of constant action.
This post was edited on 6/15/26 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:01 pm to The Third Leg
quote:and by 10% of this country
Watching teams play like this US team played is highly entertaining to several billion people
Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:44 pm to WestCoastAg
June 15 – The United States Men’s National Team’s opening World Cup match against Paraguay delivered a viewership number on par with the playoff rounds of America’s biggest sports, with Telemundo, Peacock, Fox, and Tubi combining for 24.8 million viewers in English and Spanish, according to preliminary numbers.
https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2026/06/15/us-paraguay-opener-sets-record-tv-viewing-audiences-for-soccer/
Fox’s Mike Mulvihill predicted the final figure would climb above 25 million once full Big Data audiences are confirmed.
Fox and Tubi averaged just under 16 million viewers for the Friday night kick-off, marking the best USMNT English-language audience in history. That figure represented a 106% increase on the USMNT’s opener against Wales at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (7.8 million).
Friday’s 4-1 win peaked at 18.9 million viewers between 10:45 and 11 pm ET. Tubi alone delivered 1.13 million viewers for the match, its best USMNT streaming audience yet. By comparison, Tubi drew 13.6 million for the 2025 Super Bowl.
Telemundo and Peacock combined for 8.9 million viewers for the match, the best Spanish-language USMNT audience ever in the US, and the best non-Mexico World Cup group stage broadcast in Telemundo’s history. That number marked a 156% increase on the equivalent Wales fixture in 2022.
It also outdrew NBC and Peacock’s US-Canada men’s Gold Medal hockey final from the Milan Cortina Games, the NBC Winter Olympics audience in the post-Super Bowl window, and President Trump’s 2025 inauguration. The combined English and Spanish audience trailed the Indiana-Miami College Football Playoff Championship by around 5 million viewers but comfortably eclipsed both CFP semi-final games.
https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2026/06/15/us-paraguay-opener-sets-record-tv-viewing-audiences-for-soccer/
Fox’s Mike Mulvihill predicted the final figure would climb above 25 million once full Big Data audiences are confirmed.
Fox and Tubi averaged just under 16 million viewers for the Friday night kick-off, marking the best USMNT English-language audience in history. That figure represented a 106% increase on the USMNT’s opener against Wales at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (7.8 million).
Friday’s 4-1 win peaked at 18.9 million viewers between 10:45 and 11 pm ET. Tubi alone delivered 1.13 million viewers for the match, its best USMNT streaming audience yet. By comparison, Tubi drew 13.6 million for the 2025 Super Bowl.
Telemundo and Peacock combined for 8.9 million viewers for the match, the best Spanish-language USMNT audience ever in the US, and the best non-Mexico World Cup group stage broadcast in Telemundo’s history. That number marked a 156% increase on the equivalent Wales fixture in 2022.
It also outdrew NBC and Peacock’s US-Canada men’s Gold Medal hockey final from the Milan Cortina Games, the NBC Winter Olympics audience in the post-Super Bowl window, and President Trump’s 2025 inauguration. The combined English and Spanish audience trailed the Indiana-Miami College Football Playoff Championship by around 5 million viewers but comfortably eclipsed both CFP semi-final games.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:17 pm to The Torch
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Hey I paid $500.00 to go watch a game that ended 0-0
One fanbase enjoyed that 0-0 a LOT more than the other
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:21 pm to TheWalrus
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DIII football team couldn’t keep it within 70 vs an FBS team.
I bet peak Mount Union could
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:26 pm to The Third Leg
Remember in 2018 when the US wasn't in the tournament and it was comparable to the NBA draft lmao
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:28 pm to 3nOut
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when i was finishing up school, i shared an office with a 30 YO foreign exchange student worker dude from Trinidad and Tobago in 2006 that was just ecstatic that they had made the cup. We got along and I humored him, but he made me watch all of world cup that year since T&T made it. This was West Texas so I had never cared about or watched world cup a day in my life. Then they tied Sweden 0-0 in the first match and he ran around the office (reminder that we were student workers) yelling "WE ARE THE GREATEST!!! F THE SWEDES!!! F ALL OF EUROPE!!! THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE." and then he literally went home and had a 3 day bender of watching parades back in Trinidad and came back in the office like nothing ever happened without calling in. I loved that dude.
Imagine him in 2017 when T&T knocked out the U.S. in qualifying
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:46 pm to The Boat
The west coast ag mind cannot comprehend
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