But until somebody in this thread actually produces proof of the U.S.’s collective sports taste, I’m inclined to stick with the opinion of this article and lots of people I know: they much rather watch football, basketball, baseball or hockey.
I'm not sure what your point is. Who here is claiming football is more popular (in America) than the traditional American sports?
No one. It's just the standard thing to say when American Football is discussed.
Oh, and the last Gold Cup had higher ratings in the US than the Stanley Cup. But who's counting...
But until somebody in this thread actually produces proof of the U.S.'s collective sports taste, I'm inclined to stick with the opinion of this article and lots of people I know: they much rather watch football, basketball, baseball or hockey.
I'm not sure what your point is. Who here is claiming football is more popular (in America) than the traditional American sports?
Anthony_Bialy argues against soccer's popularity in the U.S.
...a sport we as a nation loathe in our collective faces.
Enduring Beckhamwatch yet again while waiting for NBA scores and news on the condition of pitchers' rotator cuffs is a deplorable prospect for real fans of real sports.
...230-plus years of American evolution that's rendered the foot-heavy sort of football reflexively unappealing to the nation.
Good 'ol American sport fans, who prefer collision-conducive athletics, find a game where humans are forbidden from using hands, despite being equipped with the useful appendages, rather primitive.
American fans want their sports to remain fiercely combative affairs where maintenance crews have to squeegee blood off the playing surface during television breaks.
People don't buy it.
Peanut85 said:
Not to mention the lack of knowledge about Italy, American sports and American sports fans.
TV ratings ticked up to 0.3 from 0.2 in Beckham's first year before slipping back to 0.2 in the just completed season, all on Walt Disney Co's (DIS.N) ABC, and ESPN networks, according to the Nielsen Co.
Those are a far cry from the 0.9 rating garnered in the league's first season in 1996.
The MLS had 14 teams in 2008, which combined for record attendance of 3.46 million. It is scheduled to add its 15th team in Seattle next year, its 16th in Philadelphia in 2010 and two more teams in 2011.
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FEB 25, 2009 11:28 AM