haha. my feelings would be hurt if I were serious You mean you don't want to sit in the Boars Nest? Seattle has the Hawks Nest and they invented soccer in an NFL stadium.
What you want to do of you're US soccer is schedule a game immediately following any University of Alabama sporting event; therefore ensuring that every trailer dwelling Bama fan will tune in either because he's to drunk to get up and change the channel, or because he's passed out in the recliner with the TV still on. That's what happened a little over a year ago. Market 44( market #1 for college football) can and will strongly support an international match, but only if it follows at least two hours of beer drinking Rowe Tahds!
Except for that is not how TV ratings are gathered. Your TV doesn't magically report to the ratings companies what you are watching and you leaving your TV on has no affect on ratings. So even if your scenario was true it wouldn't affect TV ratings unless the person who was too drunk to get up was able identify what they were watching and answer a TV ratings survey telephone call or fill out a TV diary and send it off in the mail.
Nielsen uses a combination of diaries and electronic methods to measure audiences: http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/nielsen-solutions/nielsen-measurement/nielsen-tv-measurement.html
Right but the person has to actually have the electronic device in their house. It doesn't just report every drunk redneck in AL's TV that is left on. There is a small number of these devices in use. Most people think that your TV just magically reports your watching habits to them.
But if the right (soccer) viewer is randomly selected and accepts to be a metered home in Nielsen's methodological sample, then their viewing helps represent the overall projected/estimated amount of viewing (of whatever) in that market locally (and population weight-projected out to the total US national rating that Nielsen reports as well).
yes you are right IF several random people out of 330 million Americans happen to be in AL watching a football game and get drunk and passout when a soccer games comes on after the football game AND happen to have a Nielsen digital device in their house....it could affect the ratings. This goes for anything else this random hypothetical drunk watches after passing out. Wow...just wow. That is a solid argument. :/ Only 25,000 out of over 100million households participate in Nielsen ratings. I am sure most of these households are drunk football fans in AL.
He complains about the quality of MLS yet an age restricted tournament match is one of the best he's ever seen.
So you at saying a NIT Quarterfinal game involving Bama immediately before the US-Mexico game had nothing to do with the out of nowhere rating? What I'm saying ,with a little humor injected because I love making fun of Bama fans, is the Birmingham rating had a hell of lot to do with the Bama basketball lead in. Birmingham one of the largest college sports TV markets so one had something to do with the other.
It might have but the scenario you proposed is highly unlikely and it sounded like you thought (like many do) that if your TV was on you were automatically counted in the ratings. There was no indication that you understood that isn't how it worked. I have personally taken part in Nielsen ratings and one of my pet peeves is people thinking that your TV magically reports your watching habits without your knowledge or approval. I may have come across strong because of this pet peeve. With only 25,000 homes taking place in ratings it only takes a few in a city to legitimately be watching something to skew the numbers. It is a highly flawed system but that is a whole other discussion. The people that have the devices are usually much more conscience about what they are watching and don't just leave their TVs on.
Yes, but that wasn't part of the plan when they started. My main point is that it's silly to castigate Atlanta for being an expansion team without a grass-field SSS when almost no expansion team has had a grass-field SSS.
One of those weird cases where something was stolen BY the owner rather than FROM the owner. It's ironic that a guy with an anti-socialism rant in his sig would fail to see the distinction.
I was a fan of a team that relocated (the Houston Oilers) and I'm a fan of one that relocated from elsewhere (the Dallas Stars). Have I wished ill on Bud Adams many, many times over the last 15-20 years since the Oilers relocated to Tennessee? Sure. (And like most Oilers fans, I wished ill on him beforehand, but for different reasons.) But I don't feel for a second that Nashville "stole" the Oilers, and I don't wish any ill on the people of Nashville for having the temerity to cheer for their NFL team. They made it more worth Adams' while to move his team than Houston did for him to stay. And while that sucked for the people whose livelihoods depended on those Oilers home games at the Astrodome, I'm not one of those people. I'm just some slob who watched the games on TV and bought t-shirts and occasionally attended them in person. His moving the team meant that I'd just spend my Sunday afternoons in the fall watching someone else or going to the movies or whatever. Somebody more cynical than I would say that came to this place mentally to rationalize away that I cheer for a "stolen team," but in the end, this is just the toy department of life.
So, name suggestions? Birds seem to be popular in Atlanta sports. I'm partial to animal team names, personally. It gives the team a classic feel and it doesn't feel dated a decade later.
Yep. A simple and effective presentation that should convey the general idea to anyon most of the people who watch it. A stadium that hasn't been built yet can't very well (and shouldn't be expected to) have vids up...