OT: World Cup

[jstewismybastardson]

Maxi rodriguez should have gave cillessen the "im watching you" gesture after he scored

Fuck dedutch and their pannekoeks

 

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A rematch of the 1990 World Cup final - As I recall, that wasn't exactly a barnburner of a game.

 

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Dave Naylor of TSN is being an idiot on his twitter account - All right, we get it, you don't like soccer/football, you don't have to repeat the same thing in multiple tweets.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

"Total football" indeed

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[Bloody Brian Burke]

Dave Naylor of TSN is being an idiot on his twitter account - All right, we get it, you don't like soccer/football, you don't have to repeat the same thing in multiple tweets.

Probably because TSN radio cuts his drive time show to air the radio feed of the World Cup games.

Pretty smart of both TSN and SN to have drive time radio guys who both detest a game that is getting Stanley Cup Final-type TV ratings. Genius. Let's hear more about all the other exciting sports stuff happening in mid-July.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Dave Naylor of TSN is being an idiot on his twitter account - All right, we get it, you don't like soccer/football, you don't have to repeat the same thing in multiple tweets.

What the fuck is this asshat talking about lol

 

[Nasty_Magician]

I like what the ESPN annointed the final, Messi vs The Machine.

 

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Meine Augen...

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Anybody watch the HBO Real Sports segment on match fixing? Stating things I already know but crazy nonethless.

 

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TSNDaveNaylor: .@theninjagreg Last Super Bowl national TV rating in US was 167 Million. Last MLS Cup national TV rating in US was 505,000. #True

Geez, I for one am shocked that the Super Bowl gets better ratings in the States than the MLS Cup :rollseyes:

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

TSNDaveNaylor: .@theninjagreg Last Super Bowl national TV rating in US was 167 Million. Last MLS Cup national TV rating in US was 505,000. #True

Geez, I for one am shocked that the Super Bowl gets better ratings in the States than the MLS Cup :rollseyes:

He's also wrong as fuck on both accounts - the most watched Super Bowl by number of US viewers ever was this year, grand total 112.2 million; MLS Cup did indeed get 505,000 viewers, but combined with Univision's 515,000 the grand total was 1.02 million viewers.

It's also an awful comparison, and Dave Naylor is a twatwaffle.

 

[puckhead]

I like this shootout better. Hockey should do it. Slapper from a point between the circles.

soccer penalty spot should move back to close to the 18 yard line.
i'd rather see closer to a 50% conversion rate

TSNDaveNaylor: .@theninjagreg Last Super Bowl national TV rating in US was 167 Million. Last MLS Cup national TV rating in US was 505,000. #True

shouldn't he be comparing worldwide Superbowl ratings to worldwide World Cup ratings?

 

[puckhead]

one for Argentina, but this one has to be linked, as it is NSFW
hopefully the mods will let it slide as it is topical

again full warning, NSFW
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsIwzkJCQAAYRC7.jpg

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

He's also wrong as fuck on both accounts - the most watched Super Bowl by number of US viewers ever was this year, grand total 112.2 million; MLS Cup did indeed get 505,000 viewers, but combined with Univision's 515,000 the grand total was 1.02 million viewers.

It's also an awful comparison, and Dave Naylor is a twatwaffle.

He's not entirely wrong. The 112M is the people who watched a substantial portion of the game, which I believe is defined as 20 or more consecutive minutes. The 167M is in fact a real number also. It's the number of people who watched any portion of it (considered the reach), which I believe is anyone who watched for more than 1 minute but less than 20. That eliminates people who are just flipping channels or just turning it on to check the score, but didn't hang around for the majority of the broadcast.

He obviously cherry-picked the number that best helps him make his point. I'm just pointing out that it's not a totally made up number.

And for the record, the worldwide viewership of the 2010 final match between Spain and the Netherlands had viewership of just under 620M and reach of just under 910M. So it's not even a comparison. Even the Champions League final pulls in viewership comparable to the Super Bowl and has actually beaten it on occasion.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

He's not entirely wrong. The 112M is the people who watched a substantial portion of the game, which I believe is defined as 20 or more consecutive minutes. The 167M is in fact a real number also. It's the number of people who watched any portion of it (considered the reach), which I believe is anyone who watched for more than 1 minute but less than 20. That eliminates people who are just flipping channels or just turning it on to check the score, but didn't hang around for the majority of the broadcast.

He obviously cherry-picked the number that best helps him make his point. I'm just pointing out that it's not a totally made up number.

And for the record, the worldwide viewership of the 2010 final match between Spain and the Netherlands had viewership of just under 620M and reach of just under 910M. So it's not even a comparison. Even the Champions League final pulls in viewership comparable to the Super Bowl and has actually beaten it on occasion.

The CL Final is watched widely in a lot of places that don't have any ratings-measuring mechanism (think Africa). Wouldn't surprise me if that number pushes close to a billion.

Also, I've read before that the Canadian GP is usually one of the most watched events annually. It's time in the early afternoon here makes it prime time viewing in F1-mad Europe/Middle East.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

soccer penalty spot should move back to close to the 18 yard line.
i'd rather see closer to a 50% conversion rate

shouldn't he be comparing worldwide Superbowl ratings to worldwide World Cup ratings?

It was in response to somebody saying soccer's going mainstream in NA.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

The CL Final is watched widely in a lot of places that don't have any ratings-measuring mechanism (think Africa). Wouldn't surprise me if that number pushes close to a billion.

Also, I've read before that the Canadian GP is usually one of the most watched events annually. It's time in the early afternoon here makes it prime time viewing in F1-mad Europe/Middle East.

Definitely not a billion for the CL final, because the annual only hits in the 115/200 range for extended viewership and reach.

The World Cup final perhaps. I'd hazard a guess though that the people who compile these numbers on a global scale have some sort of mathematical model to account for situations like you mention.

 

[forty_three]

TSNDaveNaylor: .@theninjagreg Last Super Bowl national TV rating in US was 167 Million. Last MLS Cup national TV rating in US was 505,000. #True

Geez, I for one am shocked that the Super Bowl gets better ratings in the States than the MLS Cup :rollseyes:

MLS Needs better commercials.

It was in response to somebody saying soccer's going mainstream in NA.

Ann Coulter?

/I keed, I keed

 

[forty_three]

Clothing store in Germany (prior to game) announced a 10% discount for every goal Germany scored.

Oops.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

whoops ...

FIFA would know