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slavery is not a thing to be fond of these dayz
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19 million sounds more plausible. Still a hugely increased number than from 5 years ago. When the US starts winning world cups the world will blame it on Beckham. |
Some of you guys really don't get it? I'll sum it up for you.
"Add Breaks" |
Soccer is about exciting as golf. A gazillion miles of running with no scoring... yawnnnnnnnnn.
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Oh and some of the biggest whining actors next to Hollywood. You touch a soccer player he acts like hes dying.
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It's not violent enough. Add walls and checking.
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based on this wiki article, the % of commercials is ~the same for europe, gb and the usa so i don't see how the above comments apply.
we all get bombarded with commercials. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_advertisement |
The American team is getting better. It's just a matter of time until the US wins its first WC.
American spectators don't like it due to the scoring system. |
I hear what you are saying however baseball is a huge sport in many Asian countries.
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either way, thx for the clarification. :thumbsup |
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US: a typical 30-minute block of time now includes 22 minutes of programming with six minutes of national advertising and two minutes of local. Some networks even use a 18 minutes of show/12 minutes of commercial split. so between 16minutes and 24minutes of ad breaks per hour UK: the amount of airtime allowed by the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom for advertising is an overall average of 7 minutes per hour, with limits of 12 minutes for any particular clock hour (8 minutes per hour between 6pm and 11pm). 7 minutes per hour, or no adverts on the bbc quite a difference |
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Baseball is practiced in all Central America and many parts of Asia. USA is not the best in neither basketball nor baseball. |
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If you think about it, all sports are gay. Most sports are wealthy well hung men in tight uniforms with other men in tight uniforms chasing around balls and then showering together.
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BTW you guys must get more ad breaks than us in the UK, its quite obvious on US shows shown here where the edit breaks are on the shows that have been spiced back together for showing in the UK |
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my point remains re: soccer. i doubt it's a conspiracy by the networks and these #s belie that. |
Euro guy: "Americans you are stupid. You call football soccer and your "football" doesn't even use the foot. In fact all your sports are boring and stupid. REAL football is the best sport all American sports are gay. Now please tell me why you don't like our football? This confounds me."
Figure it out yourself Eurotrash. |
the matches take place at odd hours.
However, we control the times for our football/baseball/basketball/etc.. and we Americans like control. |
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and you're all fat. |
If the best athletes in America played soccer, we would win every World Cup. Sorry, but our soccer team is filled with our 6th tier athletes. The best athletes play football and basketball.
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When I was in HS, the only kids who played soccer were the ones who weren't allowed to play football.
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The US doesnt give a shit about it for many reasons. Its boring as shit and does not translate well to TV, scoreless ties and the players are the biggest pussies in the world. These guys go down like they have been shot and roll around on the ground in pain nearly everytime they get their feet tangled up or get touched. Even Paul Pierce yells at them to get the fuck up and stop acting.
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So that is 45 minutes each way without adds, with a few adds in the break in the middle, when everyone goes to the toilet or grabs a beer, or does whatever but dont watch the adds Thats why US TV stations dont push it. You cant have adverts running while the game is playing and there is no natural breaks to put adds. It simply makes revenues from adverts lower. So they dont push soccer. |
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That's 50% more adverts |
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American football? There is only football. And then soccer. :)
Soccer is no contact. Football has contact. Anyhow these guys think soccer is kind of girlie manish :) |
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With tv viewing being much higher than attendance any sports popularity is going to be partly down to what the tv companies want to show as they know which things they can show well in a way they can make money out of. |
USA will love soccer if they win the world cup
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Soccer is for fags. End of discussion. :thumbsup
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but after the group stages ...I hear that the organisers of the cup plan on doing it that way to find a winner ! :winkwink::) |
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Put any of them up against the NY Yankees or pretty much any other MLB team and see them get shellacked time and time again. |
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