[Tell It Right]

Look at a list of Stadiums in the world by capacity. You'll see of the top 11 largest stadiums (the ones that seat over 100K), 8 of them are for American college football. On any football Saturday, whichever of those eight teams have home games is how many of them are full on that same Saturday. So if Bama and Michigan and Ohio State and Penn State and Tennessee all have home games on the same Saturday, that's five of them filled to 100K+ on the same day.

Yet the whole rest of the world can fill up only three 100K seat stadiums? Not even on the same day? And I'm supposed to think they take their sports seriously? LOL

[discostu]

Some of that has to do with saturation. With 92 teams above the “professional” line (and at least that many below) in English football and most small (by American standards) cities having 2 teams, stadiums aren’t that big. But that there’s still tons of people at the games on Saturday. Birmingham is the 2nd largest city in England, and has about the population of Tucson, and has 2 teams with 30,000 seat stadiums. Comparing stadium sizes internationally is very apples and oranges.