Exactly - well said and right on. Some quotes: After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box. I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBOs Girls, light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is catching on is exceeded only by the ones pretending womens basketball is fascinating. I note that we dont have to be endlessly told how exciting football is. Soccer is not catching on. Headlines this week proclaimed Record U.S. ratings for World Cup, and we had to hear -- again -- about the growing popularity of soccer in the United States. The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Womens World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the womens games are as thrilling as the mens.) Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this years Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:14:42 +0000
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