Posted on 06/28/2006 6:19:45 AM PDT by Tatze
World Cup Scores Only Small Audience
Only 6% Following Tournament Very Closely
Despite a high level of media coverage for the World Cup soccer tournament, three-fourths of Americans (78%) are not following the action very closely if at all. A Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 adults found that just 6% are following the tournament very closely.
Nine percent (9%) of men are paying close attention along with 3% of women.
The Super Bowl remains the biggest sport championship in terms of fan appeal. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Americans say it’s their favorite championship to watch. The World Series is the only other championship to reach double digits—12% of adults say it’s their favorite.
One-fourth of all Americans (25%) say they don’t want any sports championships.
Despite the general lack of interest in the World Cup by the US audience, the soccer tournament is more popular than the NBA basketball championship and the NHL’s Stanley Cup hockey title. Both of those events were being held at the same time as the World Cup.
Fourteen percent (14%) of Americans say they played soccer in an organized league at some point in their life.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Americans believe there is a professional soccer league in the United States (and they’re right).
The survey was conducted before the U.S. soccer team was eliminated. However, few were surprised by the lack of success--just 5% of the nation’s adults thought it was very likely the U.S. team would win the tournament.
The national telephone survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted by Rasmussen Reports June 19-20, 2006. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
I'm up here in Reidsville--transplanted NY Rangers fan. Canes-Oilers series was high, high intensity. It's actually hard for me to warm up to baseball for a while after the hockey playoffs end. I don't think it's overstated when they advertise that the Stanley Cup is the hardest trophy in sport to win. These guys go through 2 months of brutally intense action. If I'm not mistaken, Kevin Lowe played a couple of games (5 and 6, or 6 and 7 against the Devils) for the '94 Rangers with a partially separated shoulder. A stay-at-home, digging-in-the-corners defenseman playing with a shoulder injury like that!
I put that up against any of these football players who get side-lined with "turf-toe" any day.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.
Leeds? They haven't played on the Premeir League for a couple
of years.
Agreed about hockey vs football. I only watch baseball during the World Series. It's about all I can stand. I enjoy highlights though on ESPN.
That's true...Hockey is only entertainment for a lot of folks.
The NHL had the same problem. It looks as though it was solved, but soccer is clearly still struggling with it . . . .
All the injuries were from playing hard, except the broken nose. I got hit by a guy swinging a bat in the on-deck circle.
When I was fourteen, I caught for senior pitcher who was a pro prospect and played college ball. I wasn't a catcher, so I paid the price with some broken toes and fingers (forgot to list three of those, at three different times).
BTW...those injuries occurred from the time I was seven unti age 27.
'Take a 100MPH fastball to the head or a line drive to the jaw and say that.'
Try it with a 100mph cricket ball, they are much harder than a baseball - it's like having a lump of oak bowled at you!
The races down at Ponce were great - Fireball Roberts, Baker, Petty, and the famous story of Lee Bible (even a song about it).
If, hypothetically, you could run full-field events at multiple places at the same time, I'd bet you could sell out multiple NASCAR venues. Daytona, Bristol, Richmond, Indy, spring to mind. If you get a ticket to any of those places - you go. Period.
It's a moot argument because one of the cool things about NASCAR is that the whole league is on the field at the same time.
For what it's worth, the only three bones I've broken in my life were broken playing recreational softball. Interestingly enough, I was sober for all three. Maybe that was the problem.
What is that from? Blue Collar tour? I remember that line from somewhere....
But a 0-0 tie is AMAZING.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Advice: Teach your kid to slide properly! Feet first, pop up. I had many injuries from head-first slides.
They should be fined also after review.
FIFA requires that the stretcher be brought out so that the game can continue. The player either gets on the stretcher or gets up. It is intended to stop the delaying tactics.
I think the movie was called Dodgeball.
Very funny line.
Declaring real football a "wimp" sport is funny as I always hear that from guys that are like 35 pounds overweight and do nothing more physical than lifting donuts.
It's quite the athletic feat to get the donut to the mouth with one hand and a Bud with the other.
Impressive.
It's not really "his show." It's kind of like "Pop-Up Video" over Cup highlights from the 70's. He just does the intros and cut-aways.
Given who his Dad and Grandad were, it's no surprise that he's a real student of the game.
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