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[boatsnhoes]

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Apparently, it does to these people. I didn't watch the whole game.Call me old fashioned but I was movedby the tying goal, penalty kicks, aftermath and this video. So, here's to the detractors. Enjoy.
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ro-rogers_abby_wambach_goal_tribute_video_071211

 

[boatsnhoes]

For those who say soccer doesn't matter, or matter to people this shows different

Apparently, it does to these people. I didn't watch the whole game.Call me old fashioned but I was movedby the tying goal, penalty kicks, aftermath and this video. So, here's to the detractors. Enjoy.
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ro-rogers_abby_wambach_goal_tribute_video_071211

 

[RocketCityDawg]

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Your daughter's team in a soccer tournament final, you know how much it means to the team and their parents.

Team USA represents.

 

[cowbell9]

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...it is still kickball. WE DONT GIVE A ****!! They have money in it and are trying to increase veiwership to sell ads. DUH!!! Way to hard to figure out. !!!

 

[ringit]

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Thanks for sharing, I have enjoyed watching the women play. Granted it is a slower pace than the men, but still very moving to watch and listen to the group of women we have representing our country.

 

[cowbell9]

For those who say soccer doesn't matter, or matter to people this shows different

nm

 

[onewoof]

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they will come after you like new york gay marriage zealots

 

[cowbell9]

For those who say soccer doesn't matter, or matter to people this shows different

nm

 

[FlabLoser]

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[majors42]

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[patdog]

For those who say soccer doesn't matter, or matter to people this shows different

WE DONT GIVE A ****!!

YOU don't give a ****, and that's OK. But millions of Americans do. That game drew a much higher TV rating than any College World Series game (or any other college baseball game) ever has. If you think they should drop women's soccer, then logically, they should drop college baseball first.

 

[dawgstudent]

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if there was a World Cup of Baseball - I bet it wouldn't come close to the ratings of soccer.

Edit to say - there is one. Who knew? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic

 

[msubullie4life]

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The best World Baseball Classic TV rating for a USA game in the US is 2.0.<div>Link</div><div>
</div><div>The best Soccer game involving the USA is 9.3. The US-Ghana game drew a 8.2 rating.</div><div>Link</div><div>
</div><div>Edited to add: Oh by the way, the US women's WC game vs Brazil drew a 2.6 rating.</div><div>Link</div>

 

[Woof Man Jack]

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Hate to burst your bubble but the ratings and excitement over the women's soccer team has nothing to do with soccer.The World Cup has a strong "USA versus the world" mentality, that's why people watch...and talk about it...and give a ****. Patriotic Pride. Combine that with an exciting ending to Sunday's game, and yeah...people are pumped right now. Once the World Cup is over soccer will go back to its rightful place in American sports popularity.

For the record, I watched Sunday...and I'll watch today. Once the USA is done, I won't give two ***** about soccer, men's or women's.</p>

 

[agame]

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Despite the soccer game staring at 10 am, the TV ratings were still higher than more than half of the college football bowl games. I'm recording this morning's game and trying to stay away from the news to watch it "live" tonight.

 

[Woof Man Jack]

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I know I'm beating a dead horse, but comparing World Cup Soccer to college football is an apples to oranges. Put a college team playing a team from Brazil, Germany, France, see how those ratings are. I'm guessing it would be pretty extraordinary.

 

[Rabbitt]

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When you have "one" soccer game on national tv and tons of football games on at the same time, where would the ratings be? Also, if I'm and ad executive, who would be watching those soccer games to buy my clients product. If I owned a spanish speaking company...would probably want to advertise on that stuff. Otherwise...it is boreing as hell for the average Amearican. Just stand around and use your feet and kick a friggin ball across the field...me...I've got bettter things to do!

 

[seshomoru]

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and advertise on most soccer games shown in the USA, then your and idiot.

/I didn't realize companies had languages to begin with.

 

[RebelBruiser]

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Hate to burst your bubble but the ratings and excitement over the women's soccer team has nothing to do with soccer.The World Cup has a strong "USA versus the world" mentality, that's why people watch...and talk about it...and give a ****. Patriotic Pride. Combine that with an exciting ending to Sunday's game, and yeah...people are pumped right now. Once the World Cup is over soccer will go back to its rightful place in American sports popularity.

For the record, I watched Sunday...and I'll watch today. Once the USA is done, I won't give two ***** about soccer, men's or women's.</p>

Agree. The World Cup is the one time soccer gets ratings in the US, men's or women's. Even the Confederation's Cup and games like that don't get ratings.

The World Cup has more of an Olympic feel. It gets the Miracle on Ice type treatment from the average American sports fan. By that I mean that hockey has never been a big American sport, never will be, but when we made a run in 1980, the whole nation got behind it and watched.

I think someone made a comparison to the golf majors that obviously happen more often, but it's the same deal. The majors get good ratings, but regular golf weekends, not so much. Soccer is a secondary sport in America and always will be. That doesn't change the fact that people will get patriotic about it when it comes to World Cups. No other sport has as big of an international stage as soccer, so it gets the patriotic support that other ones don't when the World Cup comes around. The only thing comparable is maybe hockey at the Olympics or maybe basketball in the Olympics, but those share a stage with tons of other events. The World Baseball Classic is a new thing, and it's really just a way the MLB is trying to expand its interest internationally.

For that reason, you really can't compare the World Cup to any other event in sports in terms of ratings. If you want to draw a sport to sport comparison. Compare the EPL championship, if that's the big one, with the Super Bowl or Game 7 of the NBA finals. Or compare regular season EPL games with regular season pro football, basketball, baseball games.

 

[foxtrot127]

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never been that much into watching soccer, but my wife grew up next door toali krieger, a defender on the world cup team.i met her over christmas up in D.C. The wife and i watched the USA/Brazil match, and it was pretty awesome to see her make the last penalty kick to advance. I'm hooked now; that wasthe most exciting ending i've ever seen in soccer.

 

[boatsnhoes]

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After Wourld cup it will go back to it's normal place. I like beating the stuffy euro's in **** they care about. Watching the game I was thinking, damn pro basketball and football players could learn a lot from these playersattitude/effort wise. Rapino, wambach, solobring it. That's all I am saying....beats the hell outta watching pro athletes loaf around the field all day.</p>

 

[agame]

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Put a college team playing a team from Brazil, Germany, France, see how those ratings are. I'm guessing it would be pretty extraordinary.

In the early '90s the World League of American Football was formed with the
"World Bowl" championship game. The first season semifinals had the <span id="intelliTXT">London Monarchs vs. the New York Knights, and the Birmingham Blaze vs. the </span><span id="intelliTXT">Barcelona Dragons. TV ratings were so dismal that the league soon died.</span> Hardly extraordinary.

 

[skb124]

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Im not saying this is you, but your post made me think of this. I hate when people claim how boring soccer is, who most likely have never even played the game and actually realize how amazing those players really are, and then talk about how they can't wait for the next big golf tournament. How anyone can enjoy golf and then claim soccer is boring is beyond me. Golf is no action, and its literally people hitting a ball and walking.

And this part is directed at you. If you, or anyoneelse,watched the Brazil vs USA game Sunday and said it was boring then you just have an unfoundinner hate for soccer. Ive never seen a sport get so degraded for no reason. Cowbell9 comes here and talks crap about soccer just to piss people off. If you don't like it then oh well, dont watch. Many people don't like other sports so they just attempt to avoid the games. Like hockey for me, I've never been a fan so I don't watch it. I'm not gonna bash the sport though in the middle of a conversation between fans of hockey. Thats just disrespectful honestly. I've just never really understood why its the "cool" thing to bash soccer.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

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But you never admitted to knowing much about soccer, so no biggie...<div>

If you want to draw a sport to sport comparison. Compare the EPL championship, if that's the big one, with the Super Bowl or Game 7 of the NBA finals. Or compare regular season EPL games with regular season pro football, basketball, baseball games.

</div><div><div>There is no "EPL Championship Game." There aren't even playoffs (completely un-American, I know). There is only a regular season to determine the EPL champion. Everybody plays everybody else twice, and the team with the most points in the end is the champ.</div></div><div>
</div><div>Sure, there are national tournaments (Carling Cup and FA Cup in England, for example) and European tournaments (Champions League and Europa League, for example) that are played alongside their regular EPL games, but those have nothing to do with the EPL crowning a champion.</div>

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

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Have this promotion poster somewhere of the World Bowl with the London Monarchs on the front.

 

[RebelBruiser]

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I heard Dan Le Batard on PTI yesterday essentially saying the same thing about soccer, saying that Americans generally don't care for the sport, but we will latch onto it for World Cups or good stories, citing that Americans like to rally around USA.

He then pointed out how hockey isn't all that popular in the US, but one of the biggest moments, if not the biggest, in our sports history as a country was the 1980 Miracle on Ice game against Russia. We love to rally around our national teams on big stages.

He also pointed out that Americans generally aren't big cycling fans at all (outside of this board of course), but we loved being able to rally around Lance Armstrong for so many years.

I'll take it a step further myself, but even in something as silly as a hot dog eating contest, Americans loved it when Joey Chestnut took down the unbeatable Kobayashi. We love USA taking on the world.

One more example is the popularity of the Ryder Cup. Americans love the event.

 

[GloryDawg]

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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"> I do not like Soccer. I will not watch soccer. I don't care about soccer. However if I am at home and The United States teams are playing on TV, I will watch it. Plus, there is not anything funnier than watching Chinese women play soccer. Thekinesics is hilarious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">

</span>I will credit to soccer players, Especially the World Cup ones, they are really good athletes and it does take a lot of skills and practice to what they do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Soccer is generational.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When I was a kid, soccer players were the kids who could not play baseball and were too scared to play football.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That is not the case anymore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Seems like every kid is on a soccer team and I would venture to say that most baseball players and football players today played soccer one time or another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
So I try to stay away from the Soccer vrs Football argument and give credit where credit is due. I wasn't always that way but I am now.</span></font></p>

 

[idog]

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Hate to burst your bubble but the ratings and excitement over the women's soccer team has nothing to do with soccer.The World Cup has <span style="text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;">a strong "USA versus the world" mentality</span>, that's why people watch...and talk about it...and give a ****. Patriotic Pride. Combine that with an exciting ending to Sunday's game, and yeah...people are pumped right now. Once the World Cup is over soccer will go back to its rightful place in American sports popularity.

For the record, I watched Sunday...and I'll watch today. Once the USA is done, I won't give two ***** about soccer, men's or women's.</p>

i think you've hit on something... i've never really understood why some people love to go out of their way to hate soccer. seems hating soccer is something that's primarily done by american males for the same reason as you state above. it's the most popular sport in the world and, therefore, some love to go out of there way to hate it bc of that. it's a great sport, and most haters won't even go so far as saying that, much preferring to go out of their way to say they don't "give a ****". i.e. see cowbell's commentS above.

 

[Hanmudog]

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People watch it every four years and eat it up like they have been swimming or track fans their entire lives just because the USA is involved. Then, after it is over, interest dies off a bit.

I don't begrudge anyone that likes to watch soccer but it just does not do it for me. I just catch the highlights of the 2 goals that were scored and save myself 3 hours.

 

[dogfan96]

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is a HUUUUUUGE stretch... people around the world look forward to the World Cup for the last how many years? I bet there are people in the U.S. that don't even know the WBC exists.

 

[dogfan96]

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it's not a good TV sport.. and that doesn't fly in this country.. of course everybody knows they are great athletes and have an extremely high skill level.. you can get ratings for the World Cup just because it's so big and it only comes around every so many years. but soccer in general, never gonna catch on mainstream in this country other than when we can rally around the national team every 4 years (or however often they hold it)