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re: USA-Portugal match draws more viewers than NBA Finals or World Series
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:00 pm to benhamin5555
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:00 pm to benhamin5555
I sort of like soccer (been to a few MLS games), but the truth is we watched because it's a four-year event.
Cross-posted from the Soccer Board:
More at The Atlantic...
Cross-posted from the Soccer Board:
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Americans Love the World Cup—We Still Don't Care About Soccer
The United States' mostly inspired—and occasionally soul-crushing—group play in the World Cup this year has garnered record-breaking ratings. Our first match, a victory over Ghana, was the most-watched soccer game ever on ESPN. Official ratings for the second match, a brutal tie against Portugal, are still being processed, but they will certainly (and deservedly) be astronomical.
Does America finally love soccer?
No. Or, more specifically: No, there isn't yet much evidence that rapt TV audiences from the World Cup will keep watching soccer between quadrennial worldwide championships. Soccer isn't becoming America's new baseball. The World Cup is becoming America's new Summer Olympics.
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In 2012, 32 million Americans watched Usain Bolt win the 100-meter race. It wasn't a reflection of racing's emergence as a major TV destination. It was a reflection that the Summer Olympics are a special glimpse of rare global talent that air when America's most popular sports, the NFL and NBA, are dormant.
The World Cup is essentially a single-sport Summer Olympics introducing tens of millions of viewers to a thrilling contest in a sport they typically don't care about. Unfortunately for America's soccer fans, the vast majority of yesterday's domestic viewers won't watch another soccer game between August and 2018.
More at The Atlantic...
This post was edited on 6/23/14 at 10:03 pm
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Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:00 pm to cheesesteak501
Until it gets to the commercials.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:00 pm to Emiliooo
I would assume most people will be working at 11am Thursday. Wish it was another 5pm timeslot. I'll be tuning in on my phone.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:03 pm to benhamin5555
This seems to have ruffled some feathers
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:03 pm to Macphisto
The Atlantic is basically Communist Monthly.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:04 pm to Jcorye1
quote:Yea 2 cities. So take that number and multiply by the rest of the cities in the country
ou don't think Cardinals and Red Sox fans were packing bars watching the World Series?
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:04 pm to thesoccerfanjax
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Until it gets to the commercials.
That might be true.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:07 pm to cheesesteak501
Take away the commercials, and the ratings for the Super Bowl would plummet.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:10 pm to Rickety Cricket
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The people who have this unbelievable hate of soccer always confuse me.
Mostly wannabe "macho" idiots and rednecks. Ignorant all the same.
Some people dont like soccer and thats ok. Theres constant threads where people hate on the NBA all the time and you rarely get a response like this. However the instant someone says anything negative about soccer is "you are just too ignorant to understand the game". Soccer fans are the most pompous hipsters there are.
This coming from someone who until the past two US matches hasnt been that invested in a game since LSU football. I love watching the world cup. However I like most americans will not watch after the end of June.
Comparing the world cup which is once every 4 years and a huge surge of nationalism is apples and oranges to the NBA and MLB.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:14 pm to Emiliooo
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I watched the game at a bar, and can comfortably say that the entire bar was watching the game.
They even opened up 4th Street Live up here and converted the outdoor portion into a huge watch party. It was packed.
This was apparently from pre-game...
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:16 pm to thesoccerfanjax
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The Atlantic is basically Communist Monthly.
They might be, but that doesn't make them wrong about this.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:18 pm to benhamin5555
Probably already been said, but if the World Series or NBA Finals were to be played every 4 years, they wold have higher numbers.
I do recognize that soccer is growing in America, though.
I do recognize that soccer is growing in America, though.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:23 pm to Bama Bird
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didn't watch a single game of the world series or NBA finals this year
Your loss.
You missed some absolutely gorgeous basketball.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:26 pm to Adam Banks
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Soccer fans are the most pompous hipsters there are.
A certain segment of them for sure. Just as they complain about a group that incessantly bashes soccer, there is a group of soccer fans that incessantly take jabs at other sports and try and minimize those that express even honest opinions in critique of soccer. It goes both ways. Hell, I've made light hearted jokes about soccer being boring only to stir up passionate anger in soccer enthusiasts who seem to get offended by anyone even mentioning that they might find the game boring.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:27 pm to The Easter Bunny
500k people watched the mls cup last year. Lol
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:28 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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You missed some absolutely gorgeous basketball.
Yep. Spurs did work. Last year's finals and this year's finals were great, granted it wasn't so entertaining this year due to the blowouts. I can watch this Heat team get blown out any day though and be happy.
And I don't watch a lot of NBA regular season basketball either. Just too many games IMO.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:30 pm to benhamin5555
In a few years soccer will become the third most popular sport in America.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:31 pm to benhamin5555
It should. It is a much bigger event. Now the super bowl vs a USA world cup match would be interesting to see the ratings on
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:33 pm to ChewyDante
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Last year's finals and this year's finals were great
Agree. Some of the most intense basketball I've seen in consecutive Finals since the Jordan era.
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granted it wasn't so entertaining this year due to the blowouts
True. It kept me from pulling out any hair I had left from the '13 Finals, though
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And I don't watch a lot of NBA regular season basketball either. Just too many games IMO.
Agree. I'm about as hardcore of a Spurs fan as you'll run across, but I probably watch only 40 or 50 regular season games tip to horn.
I thought the number of games from the 2012 lockout season (66) was perfect. Just start everything in mid-December and let it play out from there.
Posted on 6/23/14 at 10:37 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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but I probably watch only 40 or 50 regular season games tip to horn.
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