He touched on something that radio guy Steve Czaban touched on - the overproduction part of typical US sports with tickers and close-ups and the like. Since I started watching footy hardcore it's one of the hardest things to adjust to when watching NFL games or especially college games.
yes people ARE actually claiming that. It would be much better to say, as someone did earlier, that it helped it along, not to say that it would change everything. For examples, look in the TV/Satellite group for predictions threads
well, it IS Tulsa. If it doesn't have to do with Jenks and that other team, or OU - does it even make a sound?
this crystalizes it for me. It's a red-state blue-state thing. No more, no less: America remains of two minds about soccer - KansasCity.com
Hey, it's some progress. Most of the knuckle-draggers need to pretend that America has just one opinion about soccer. Theirs, of course. I'm getting really tired of the old "Soccer people claim..." straw man, though.
Meh. You are probably right to a point but kansas city is still the place where they had 1o thousand people in downtown watching usa algeria and usa ghana. Also, this is one of the places where a totally kick ass sss stadium will be ready in 18 months- actually, this is why some of the rednecks there are getting ornery about soccer.
I find it ironic how Fox Soccer's more popular brother, Fox "news" is the channel leading the charge against the WC and it's universality.
exactly. It's not like a bell curve in terms of adoption, it's more like two different camps. A pro-soccer camp and an anti-soccer camp. And much like the red-state blue-state divide - a bunch of people in the middle who aren't vocal and aren't as indignant.
they have the same battle with Fox - remember when Fox News wanted to sue Fox Entertainment over the Simpsons?: Fox News Threatened to Sue 'The Simpsons' The only thing important at Fox is the bottom line. And that goes for FNC, FBC, FSC, etc. And I suppose that threat to sue was part of FNC's strategy to defend Real Americans (until someone higher up put the smackdown on it). Or as Fox News puts it, they didn't do nuthin: Simpsons parody upset Fox News, says Groening | Media | MediaGuardian
Christine Brennan recycles the same old column again. Because The WNBA and Golf are so much more thrilling than soccer... http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/brennan/2010-06-16-world-cup_N.htm
Seriously. When will the soccer-ignorant stop using the word never, after having so many previous "nevers" come to pass? Every sports writer who now says that Americans only care about soccer during the World Cup had previously said, or at least thought, that Americans would never care about soccer during the World Cup.
funny that she pisses on soccer then tries to convince people about the NBA-welfare-needing WNBA. Also the reason people tune into the Olympics is not because they like olympic sports better, it's because the Olympics are shown as a soap opera. the World Cup is always about the games, no matter what Nik Anelka or John Terry do. I bet the ratings on the live shows on USA or CNBC or MSNBC aren't even close to NBC's vignette-central coverage with the fake fireplace that Stephen Colbert climbed into.
True. But this one is from this week. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/brennan/2010-07-07-brennan-world-cup_N.htm
yes. perspective. meanwhile Lebron's decision show, unavailable in 15 million non-cable households (about 14%) was the highest rated program on TV on Thursday. This anti-soccer anti-fanaticism argument just doesn't wash. I would have thought that someone as worldly as her would come up with something better than that.
I can't stand the NBA! The fact that Lebron's hour show on ESPN recieved the highest ratings for the day proves that the NBA is bush league!