Posted on 06/27/2014 8:16:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Let me ask you this question: those Third Worlders . . . they become USA soccer fans the moment they cross the border? I suppose it’s possible, the way a Venezuelan, Dominican, or Cuban becomes a baseball fan . . . but please elaborate. Spanish-speakers watch Univision, anyway. Why the interest in ESPN?
I notice you didn’t mention the NBA Finals, which happens every year. Which is as an American sport as you can get.
3rd world ? Baseball is 50% Latin American. And it is a dying sport.
Enjoy your Bud ads every 5 minutes as you watch 350 lb fat asses sit on each other in ‘football’.
The idea of Little League and hockey camps is basically ludicrous. Willie Mays grew up playing stickball and Gretzky on frozen ponds.
The entire concept of adults running expensive children’s sports leagues demonstrates a lot of what is wrong in the country.
So the NFL will have to import players. Think about that for a minute.
The ratings for an average English Premier League game exceed those for the Super Bowl. Viewership for the World Cup final in 2010 approached a billion people.
The only people who watch American sports are Americans. The only people who watch soccer are everyone else.
Olympics are every 4 years too and its a big deal. I’ll watch gymnastics, swimming and even curling because its the Olympics.
Other than the Olympics (4 year event) I could never imagine myself or a buddy saying ‘Hey, girls swimming is on Ch. 5 now, or gymnastics is on ESPN, or curling is on”. A guy would get scoffed at if he did.
Only way soccer does well in the US is the World Cup and amongst the mass forced immigration populace.
It’s nice to watch a sport without a bunch of thugs (Luis Suarez, notwithstanding).
But to suggest that soccer (in the U.S.) will "only" succeed because of the World Cup (and that it will fade afterward) requires no small amount of denial.
Please note, I'm not talking about the "bump" I'm talking about the trend.
If the NFL dies, it will be from be sued out of existence by its own players. I never understood people blaming some made up strawman that they think is out to get football. When we all see with our own eyes football’s ex-players being they ones dragging the NFL into court. It will be football players who destroy football, nobody else.
Would it be too much to ask to have his stopwatch synched to the stadium clock?
Now that post I think is 100 % spot on.
And the owners don't recognize it, yet. Because they are rolling in dough generated by their taxpayer-funded stadiums.
This is how I see the trends in my lifetime. When I was young I would rank in popularity these sports in order, Baseball, Football, Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer. Now I would make the ranking Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, and Hockey. With Soccer being within striking distance of baseball, due to baseball’s nursing home demographic. Hockey had a brief moment in the early 90’s, but it did not capitalize and now it is teetering on irrelevance. Football is king right now, with Basketball and Soccer being sports that are trending up. While Baseball is about to enter a death spiral after its fans pass to the great beyond in the next two decades, and hockey was never there to began with.
Ha, that debate has been going on forever. There are others who keep time too, just to keep the ref honest, but good luck getting that changed. It has grown on me over the years. I look forward to seeing how much time is left for the stoppages. It’s a reminder that the game isn’t over till the fat lady sings (or the ref blows his whistle).
I don’t see what’s so hard about this “best records advance” concept. If the Tigers lose game #162, they’re not supposed to still be happy if they’ve made the playoffs?
I'm off to watch some thoroughbred racing . . . oh, wait.
There are 36 inches in a yard but I'll be damned if I can remember how many centimeters there are in that same yard........
NHL just posted record revenue. If the MLS has passed them it’s not because they’re falling, it’s just MLS growing, which given the much larger stadium size isn’t terribly unexpected.
you are right, because the US is now awash with illegals.
For most young white American males, soccer is a sport you play because you are smaller and suck at baseball/football/basketball. I’d add hockey, but in the US, if you want to play hockey you need some money and parents willing to sell their lives to the sport.
Guess what else is “trending down” here in the old US. The concept of a republic. What is “trending up”. Crime, the acceptance of criminal govt, and barrios. Yeah US trends.
Didn’t know that, thanks. The one article I read did reference average crowd turnout . . . but those specialized MLS stadiums aren’t that big to begin with. I thought NHL stadiums are larger.
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