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American football v. FIFA football (soccer)
| View Poll Results: Which sport do you like best? | |||
| American Football |     | 6 | 28.57% |
| FIFA Football (soccer) |    | 15 | 71.43% |
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Originally Posted by joshSCH 
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You are clearly a hypocritical moron.
Last edited by Lardmeister; Feb 4th, 2008 at 8:01 pm.
I upped my sanitary measures, up yours!
That's right.. go on and psychologically shut me out simply because you don't want to admit that I'm correct in my assumption..
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Originally Posted by joshSCH
As we all know, American football is the best from a business perspective:
1.) It's cheaper hosting the Super Bowl than the world cup
2.) The Super Bowl occurs every year
3.) Commercials during the Super Bowl average about $3 million per 30-minute spot
4.) The publicity from the commercials, half-time show, and actual gameplay contribute to record profits ($300 million economic impact on the local economy)
Also, American football is the most popular sport in any single country.. about 40-50% of all Americans tune in to watch the Super Bowl (~150 million worldwide). The average attendance of an American professional football game is about 68,000 people compared to 16,000 attendees of American soccer, 33,000 attendees of American baseball, and 34,000 attendees of England premier league games.
In my opinion, it's obvious from football's dominance in America as to which sport is most popular
uh, no
every country in the world APART from america has soccer (the real football) as one of thier top 3 sports
1) yes, because less teams play and its not global
2) the local tournaments e.g the european cup, the african cup of nations all happen inbetween the world cup.
Also, you are confused about how the world cup works. Teams DO NOT play againsy eachother, Countries do.
e.g manchester united do not play liverpool in the world cup, but germany plays against england.
these national teams take players from thier normal teams , which wastes MONEY hence it not happening all the time.
Also, most of the time between world cups is spent qualifying as it takes ages
3 and 4) a 30 minute advert? and the world cup does generate huge revenuses. Look at the billboards and sponsors like coca cola.
In fact, the world cup is allegedly worth about 1 billion pounds to the UK as it boosts sales of tvs, barbeques etc...
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Also, American football is the most popular sport in any single country.. about 40-50% of all Americans tune in to watch the Super Bowl (~150 million worldwide). The average attendance of an American professional football game is about 68,000 people compared to 16,000 attendees of American soccer, 33,000 attendees of American baseball, and 34,000 attendees of England premier league games.
and the reason theres less attendees is because duh, england is smaller place
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Here, American football is the most exciting and most watched sport.. while soccer is boring, and the least watched professional sport.
on that note, why is it eve called football - you hardly use your feet
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I suspect the rest of the world will one day catch on, and American football will reign as the most watched sport in the world
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Originally Posted by jbennet
In fact, the world cup is allegedly worth about 1 billion pounds to the UK as it boosts sales of tvs, barbeques etc...
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Originally Posted by jbennet
No. About the same % of british people watch the world cup. And theres a greater number of people worldwide who play soccer, just look at brazil, japan.
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Originally Posted by jbennet
american football is boring to everyone apart from americans.
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Originally Posted by jbennet
and we all want to be like america, dont we - NOT.
Last edited by joshSCH; Feb 5th, 2008 at 4:07 am.
lol
They are both fine games really, except Football as in FIFA football, is I would say more popular and well know world wide. Having the World Cup competition happening every 4 years, and many of the countries around the world playing football helps. Not many countries play American Football, because it would then not be American Football, seeing as it is not played in America.
But it's a sport, and people like what they like.
They are both fine games really, except Football as in FIFA football, is I would say more popular and well know world wide. Having the World Cup competition happening every 4 years, and many of the countries around the world playing football helps. Not many countries play American Football, because it would then not be American Football, seeing as it is not played in America.
But it's a sport, and people like what they like.
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As for my taste, I like to see the actual player, not just a highly padded uniform and a faceguarded helmet. That looks too robotic and unhuman.
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Originally Posted by joshSCH
That's right.. go on and psychologically shut me out simply because you don't want to admit that I'm correct in my assumption..
I upped my sanitary measures, up yours!
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