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To: xp38
I've sometimes wondered about the fact that the entire rest of the world (96% of the population) has only three 100K seat stadiums. Especially when you think about how densely populated much of the world is -- surely it'd be easy to regularly fill a bunch of 100K seat stadiums for soccer if they loved it as much as we've heard they do all our lives.

Yet in our nation, with 4% of the population, we'll fill multiple of 100K seat stadiums every football Saturday. How many? However many of those 8 teams have a home game that day. I'm sure by chance on some Saturdays it's just 2 or 3 happen to have a home game, but then on other Saturdays it's probably 6 or even 7. On any given Saturday, however many of those 8 teams are playing at home, their stadium sells out. A nation with 4% of the world's population has enough college football fans to regularly fills up that many stadiums, but the entire rest of the world has only enough soccer fans to fill up 3 stadiums that size. And this Bama fan is supposed to believe that they take their soccer seriously? LOL

44 posted on 07/09/2026 1:16:02 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

True but years ago if you looked up largest stadium in the world in the Guinness Book of World Records you got the Maracana in Brazil which had a regular capacity of around 150k but it’s max crowd once topped 200k and no stadium in the US is that large. It was however greatly reduced in capacity and is now below 100k I think. I also recall that some stadiums designed for mass displays in communist countries if you counted the participants on the field can exceed those numbers. It’s an apples and oranges comparison but for permanent seating the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has something in the range of a quarter of a million.


47 posted on 07/09/2026 1:27:09 PM PDT by xp38
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