I know what you're saying. I find it all very shocking and hard to believe too. The crack reporters at Reuters have uncovered this amazing story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031217/80/ehb2k.html
What? No mention of bigsoccer? Terrible reporting. Otherwise, right on, we're all one big cybersoccer family.
Good article. How did they forget good old bigsoccer? Does anyone know how many hits bigsoccer gets in a day or week?
"...Take one of soccer's greatest goals: A sweet left-foot volley scored in the 2002 Champions League final by Real Madrid's Zinedine Zidane to help his club beat Germany's Bayer Leverkusen and claim the European crown. Many diehard soccer fans in the United States never saw it -- unless they had satellite or cable television and were able to watch the match at work during the day. ..." i would think that nearly every diehard soccer fan in the united states saw this goal ok maybe not live but... doesnt every die hard have satellite or cable otherwise how you be a die hard that would make you a casual fan and no the casual fans did not see this fabulous goal but i think all the die hards did big soccer rules the earth!
"for millions of fans in the United States, united by their immigrant status and love of the game." Jeez, what a stereotype of U.S. fans here. Ok, I realize that technically, unless you're Native American, this applies, but the continued idea that only "immigrants" follow soccer --very old.
Republic of Texas gives BIGSOCCER the highest rating of any cyber page... BIGSOCCER is the greatest information source in the U.S. All others pale in comparison...
I'm just wonder how they estimated that there are 263 soccer websites that US fans get their information from. Better yet, I'd like to see the list of approxiamately 263 sites.
Two or three times a week?! That's fanatical? The average Bigsoccer member checks the boards 10 times a day. I don't even consider myself a fanatic, and I check soccer news (international and domestic) once a day.
Little known fact ... huge internet soccer junkie Invented the internet and BigSoccer all while ghostwriting Love Story!
See, now this is the guy who should get scads of scathing e-mails from the bigfsoccer community. He'll never make the same mistake again. Probably in contact with a bunch of ex-pat Eurosnobs. Chicago 1871 - looking forward to Peter Pan I guess? and give Jack a small break - he's usually too busy tending bar (I think at Nevadas)
I love it when someone uses a word like "approximately" with a number like 263. Instead of, say, 250, or even 260.
10-4 on that one, good buddy. Thankfully, I have an exotic device called cable TV that allowed me to pull in ESPN, so I could see the Zidane goal that he mentions in the first paragraph.
No, I have no intention of seeing it, but I came across the Lacoste Alligator and wanted to use it as an avatar, but couldn't think of a tagline for it...ended up using that. You're the first to figure out it's meaning though.