More Americans watched Women's World Cup final than the NBA Finals or the Stanley Cup
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Yeah, what does it matter. Life is fleeting. We're all going to die.
I'm gonna go listen to The Cure now.
darkside31337
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Think his point was that Soccer can draw big for one night but people will go back to treating Women's Soccer as something they don't care about for the next 3 years and 11 months. Which is unfortunately true. Even in here people are hoping for a boost to MLS...
The timing of the game couldn't have been any more perfect either. July 4th weekend is the perfect time to get some ratings for a USA final in any sport. Still awesome to see though.
Seems like getting an MLS team to places like St Louis should be high on the agenda.
I was making a jab at his dismissive first part of his post.
I know this. But to me it makes little sense to make this comparison.
SolidSnakex
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Of course there are people that care. The problem is that there just aren't many of them. That's why people always ask "Will this change things for soccer in the US?" after every World Cup. Last years MLS finals had fewer than 2m people watch it. And that's actually an improvement over previous years. The biggest women's league in the US only has a couple of their games televised a year, while most of them are only available to watch in Youtube. No one doubts that soccer can put up big ratings during the World Cup. The doubt comes in when it comes to it putting up big numbers outside of those events.
FriedConsole
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02uHuKv4Zc
Can't get more white than that.
If you're a NPR Euro lovin white bread American you can watch this sport and look down at the lower class NFL watching ignorant mouth breathers. It is funny that in Europe it is generalized as the sport of ignorant mouth breathers that uppity people look down on who watch.
Ganzlinger
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Aren't the matches during the Olympic games well watched?
It'll happen the question is how long it'll take. This is our first year in the USL and while the stadium only holds 5,000 it's basically been sold out the entire season.
American Eskimo
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Your point?
Who exactly are you arguing with here?
If someone posted that the NBA finals had record viewership, would you question of the d league attendance is going to improve? Of course not because nobody is taking about that.
Why do some of you look at a fact and try to make it into a fight, like it's insulting your honor?
The fact is, a women's sport match had enormous viewership. Let's celebrate rather than fight strawmen.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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It's a good women's sport.
Harlock
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Vulcano's assistant
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Football (soccer) is my favorite sport, but to be fair, what other event lends itself so well to just watch the final without having followed it other than World Cups. It's not team vs team, is country vs country, that's all you need to know.
edit; plus the national team was playing on top of that.
edit; plus the national team was playing on top of that.
The Olympics has multiple events at the same time though. It's not like all 20M+ were watching snowboarding.
Perhaps a better comparison would be the Canada/U.S. gold medal hockey match at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. It was a single match (rather than a series), the tournament final, only happens every 4 years, and a U.S. national team was playing. Average viewership was 27.6 million according to NBC.
http://sports.espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2010/icehockey/news/story?id=4957570
Anyways, it's very impressive that women's soccer cracked 20 million.
i don't know, i would assume he's arguing with the OP, or the actual title of the thread? Things that should be pretty clear to most anyone, although i guess that assumption was wrong.
The Elite
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I am not an expert on the sport but I have to say the lack of people randomly rolling around on the ground after being grazed by a shoulder is rather refreshing when watching the women. It's like men's soccer has ragdoll physics.
I believe that that's actually a clip from women's rugby, not soccer, but the point is still valid.
DontBeThatGuy
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I wasn't one of them. Shit, I didn't even know what day the game was being played on lol.
Men's soccer is mostly garbage for that reason imo. Watching the Brazil - Germany game last year was just sad. The Brazilian team looked like such a bunch of little crybabies. I mean grow the fuck up and play the game, don't act like a pathetic little shit just because you're losing badly. "The beautiful game" my ass. Japan was getting dominated and their goalkeeper was understandably upset, but the team wasn't acting like they were about to be executed at dawn. The women players just seem tougher overall. That girl from Germany had blood streaming down her face but she kept fighting. There were a lot of times where there was contact and the players would just keep going or help each other up as opposed to flopping on the ground every time and howling in pain every time someone breaths on you.
Face it, us Americans are only in it for two things. 1. Destroying the "World's game" from the inside, and 2. Winning that hideous trophy that you call a "cup". We're halfway done with 1, maybe we should get started with 2.
boiled goose
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Women's soccer is not bad to watch.
For tennis I like both men and women. For volleyball I actually prefer women (longer rallies).
Women's basketball is definitely less good.
For tennis I like both men and women. For volleyball I actually prefer women (longer rallies).
Women's basketball is definitely less good.
The_Inquisitor
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Yesterday's game was quite competitive. Helped that both teams played a great game.
Considering this doubled the 2011 World Cup Final, I'd say it's growing just fine.
You could say that about most women's sports though. I mean the college World Series is pretty damn competitive too if you don't mind them throwing softballs. Women's soccer is a big big step down in speed, power and skill level. That doesn't mean it can't be entertaining. I just don't see this as some indicAtor that soccer or women's sports in general should be optimistic.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Why is that? Because people watch a game or two every couple of years when the team is doing well?
Where's the big MLS boost we've been hearing about for 20 years? Where's the massive anticipation for the Gold Cup?
Maybe if that was the only thing that mattered this would make sense.
The_Inquisitor
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Key in your statement is "throw softballs". As far as I am aware, there is no difference in rules between mens and womens soccer. That's what makes it all the more interesting. Maybe WNBA is same way. Would have to check. But to answer your point, only other women's competitive sport I watch is Olympic/X-Games stuff.
gutter_trash
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FIFA will be sorry for awarding Qatar 2020 instead of USA
PandaAttack
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Wow amazing numbers. By the way, anyone have a gif of the guy wearing the bald eagle mask? He was great!
terrisus
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I hope no one compares the Superbowl to the MLB World Series ever again.
helloresolven
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That was rugby.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Cherry picking stats: America's greatest sport of all.
terrisus
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Pretty much.
It's kinda surreal how little the women fouled each other in the World Cup final compared to the men in the Copa America final.
Is it my imagination or do various newspapers that seem to give the Superbowl winners half of the front page any given year seem to only give this win maybe a little space in the corner of the front page redirecting you to a quarter page somewhere else in the paper?
djplaeskool
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I'm going to chalk this up as: Women's sports outside of an Olympic context
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