Not if you only count people who didn't stuff their face out of commissionGB (population 60 million) won 29 Golds whilst USA population 250 million won 45. Therefore GB did more than TWICE AS WELL AS USA ;-)
Oh, well, then it's THREE times as well.Not if you only count people who didn't stuff their face out of commission
Thank you for Sydney. Long remembered party.Well done London, it was a great Olympics, and your athletes did you proud!
22.4 million of 313 million citizens == %7. I would hardly call that popular. We have the worlds most successful Women's National team and can't keep a league running. Now, the landscape is changing and it may yet build critical mass. It doesn't help when FIFA sends the world cup to Qatar despite superior presentations by the US and UK. Hard to think of it as a sport with all the players diving and the corruption in the senior administration. -- jim
I don't know the numbers. It has little to do with its popularity here. American football is not only the highest grossing profession sport, it is the most profitable. -- jimWhereas estimate of the numbers who play American football in the USA are around 3 million!!
Dont forget the money that rolls in from college football too. American football is king and it's not even close.I don't know the numbers. It has little to do with its popularity here. American football is not only the highest grossing profession sport, it is the most profitable. -- jim
Well, Rob, substitute "American Football" for "Soccer" and that's my reaction.I said, "Soccer?"
Still can't bring myself to buy tickets and go to a game.
Again, "fitba" would be more interesting if they didn't flop around like a stuck pig every time someone looked at them cross eyed and if the governing body (FIFA) wasn't so obviously corrupt. FIFA is almost as corrupt as the IOC. -- jimWell, Rob, substitute "American Football" for "Soccer" and that's my reaction.
Soccer (fitba') is a 90 minute game that is completed in about 95 minutes of continuous activity by all the players.
American Football (gridiron) is a 60 minute game that clocks in at between 3 and 4 hours. It's an advertiser's dream with all the inactivity surrounding brief outbursts of orchestrated violence between a small subsection of players. Hence it gets all the money and hype. Baseball is in a similar vein. Perfect sports for brainwashing fans to buy things.
Different strokes, I suppose.
I don't rep for non-ASL related postings.... but this almost made me break my rule. I watched some international soccer game last Euro Cup and was just appalled at the constant demonstrations by most players for a foul to be called. More bad acting being done by the players than a 7 year old trying to convince his mom he is too sick to go to school. I stopped watching all basketball for the same reason.Again, "fitba" would be more interesting if they didn't flop around like a stuck pig every time someone looked at them cross eyed and if the governing body (FIFA) wasn't so obviously corrupt. FIFA is almost as corrupt as the IOC. -- jim
Ironically, that's how I watch it too. The channel owners and advertisers like it chopped up that way. The fan generally does not. I do the same with hockey, the king of sports. -- jimSoccer has no future in the US where the big four sports are played with breaks allow for TV advertising. It's no great loss to you. Ironically when I'm watching the NFL I'll start running the game about an hour and a half after kick off, so I can FF through the breaks.
Continuous activity, but little excitement.Well, Rob, substitute "American Football" for "Soccer" and that's my reaction.
Soccer (fitba') is a 90 minute game that is completed in about 95 minutes of continuous activity by all the players.
American Football (gridiron) is a 60 minute game that clocks in at between 3 and 4 hours. It's an advertiser's dream with all the inactivity surrounding brief outbursts of orchestrated violence between a small subsection of players. Hence it gets all the money and hype. Baseball is in a similar vein. Perfect sports for brainwashing fans to buy things.
Different strokes, I suppose.
End zone celebrations. And at least fitba' players keep most of their histrionics on the pitch rather than in the home or the fighting pit.I don't rep for non-ASL related postings.... but this almost made me break my rule. I watched some international soccer game last Euro Cup and was just appalled at the constant demonstrations by most players for a foul to be called. More bad acting being done by the players than a 7 year old trying to convince his mom he is too sick to go to school. I stopped watching all basketball for the same reason.
So you don't even watch games anymore. Just highlights. Heck, I do that!Continuous activity, but little excitement.
My preferred method of watching the NFL is thru NFL Redzone. Been signed up for the past 2 years. Shows all the games (no commercials) and only cuts to a game when a team gets the ball within 20 yards of the goal line. Many times they have split screens due to multiple teams running plays at the same time. They show every TD from every game.
Never said that. It said "preferred" method. I watch full games all the time, especially if the Steelers are playing.So you don't even watch games anymore. Just highlights. Heck, I do that!
I like redzone when we get it. Especially if the game chosen by the satellite company over here that carries one each of the two earlier games has chosen something I don't fancy.Continuous activity, but little excitement.
My preferred method of watching the NFL is thru NFL Redzone. Been signed up for the past 2 years. Shows all the games (no commercials) and only cuts to a game when a team gets the ball within 20 yards of the goal line. Many times they have split screens due to multiple teams running plays at the same time. They show every TD from every game.