NBC has tried to remedy the television problem by offering rugby on NBC Sports Network (and on its streaming product, NBC Sports Live Extra). In 2010 the network CMCSA started showing the Collegiate Rugby Championship, and in 2011 it added the Sevens World Series and the Rugby World Cup. Since 2011, NBC’s five Sevens Rugby telecasts have averaged 1 million viewers—that isn’t nothing, but compare that to the 17.6 million average for a Sunday NFL game last season
Just proves why Americans are so obese. They like watching a tiny bit of sport between their food commercials. Superbowl......we just have regular bowls around here. Keeps the weight down.
Originally posted by @blood-on-the-tracks I know USA is a big country, but 172 million is a LOT of people, over half your population?
I guess that was for the 'Superbowl' ???
Do these figures actually prove anything? They don't show USA is totally ambivalent about football (soccer)
PS why do you call it 'football' when in gridiron foot and ball very rarely meet?
That was for the Super Bowl.
I was trying to demonstrate the difference between the popularities of the sports in the US.
In comparison to football no one cares about either soccer or rugby.
As for the name of football, the game used to be much more like rugby. It evolved over time. The nickname grid iron is also from the evolution of the game. At one time the field had both vertical and horizontal lines. The ball used to be much more round. At one time a person with the ball could drop the ball to the ground and kick it through the goal posts for points, I think 3 or 1 as a point after touchdown. It is called a drop kick.
My dad said that one could drop kick it at anytime, even while running down the field. The drop kick is all but forgotten today. It stopped being used after WWII.
I am puzzled about what you are 'proving'. As far as I can see, no one is disputing that US football is more popular in USA than proper football ( soccer, you know, the one where you actually foot the ball)
Originally posted by @blood-on-the-tracks Ah. That subtlety went well over my head
I am puzzled about what you are 'proving'. As far as I can see, no one is disputing that US football is more popular in USA than proper football ( soccer, you know, the one where you actually foot the ball)
??? Rolling eyes thingy
More popular?
Did you compare the numbers?
Soccer viewership is less than .5 percent football viewership.
Less than one half of one percent means soccer popularity is practically zero in comparison.
On your Superbowl cherry picked figures, Us football is clearly more popular.
Where did I dispute that?
The ' more popular ' on your quoted post clearly concedes, for what it is worth, that US football is more popular in USA than soccer ( foot on ball football)
Maybe bad spelling is an indicator of lack of intelligence after all