Super Bowl vs. Soccer World Cup

[QUOTE="Fizzman"]

World Cup is a global sport with probably a billion fans vs NFL which is only popular in the US. What do you think?

monkeytoes61

I was refering to revenue generated. Its a simple numbers game. More fans = more money. Lets be VERY generous and say that there are 300 million NFL fans total, it would probably still not even cover half of the total soccer fans worldwide. Its just not fair since soccer is a global sport whereas football is exclusive to one country.

The World cup final (1 game)has more viewers then the superbowl.

The World Cup...I mean, the Super Bowl is just a championship game for a league. The World Cup is the championship game for the WORLD

Los9090

[QUOTE="-Halftime-"]Yeah, but you're missing the little tidbit that no one cares about Canada or ever hasoajlu

of course, poor and uneducated american dont care. lol they only care about who's Justin Biebier's new girlfriend or is Brad Pitt going to dovice with Angelina Jolie

rich american in wall street and politicans care about oil sands. U.S. is run by those ppl except few months before election.

More fans = more money.Fizzman

[QUOTE="Fizzman"] More fans = more money.No_Hablo_Ingles

That's true, but the disparity is too huge for it to matter. NFL = America only. Soccer = world. Also its not like the majority of American NFL fans are wealthy.

[QUOTE="No_Hablo_Ingles"][QUOTE="Fizzman"] More fans = more money.Fizzman

That's true, but the disparity is too huge for it to matter. NFL = America only. Soccer = world. Also its not like the majority of American NFL fans are wealthy.

China (1st in population and 2nd in economics): Many sports, but definately not soccer

oajlu

You really don't what you are talking about do you? Soccer is one of the biggest sports in China. All their main sports channels like CCTV1 and Shanghai GSPorts show soccer every weekend from the premier league in England, I know, because I use their streams to watch. Not to mentin the Champions League. They certainly don't show NFL. LOL

Canada (2nd in land size): Hockey

oajlu

Lol, you put Canada up there and not Germany, France, UK, which easily beats Canada in terms of GDP. And the whole of EU GPD > USA GDP.

Dont you guys see world cup's problem is? it lacks of worldmajor powers' support, thats why world cup looks quite rubbish...no instant review, no half time show, no fancy commerical, no real competition (nothing is more fun when it involves with political hatres between 2 big countries), and too little drama in it.

You cant find U.S. vs. China, China vs. Japan, India vs. Pakistan, Russia vs. U.S. in world cup...

oajlu

What are you talking about? There's plenty of drama. Argentina vs England, France vs Italy, Brazil vs Argentina, South Korea vs Japan, England vs France, I could go on and on. And France, Germany, Russia, UK are not world powers, LOL? Three of these countries are permanent members of the Security Council, Canada is not even a permanent member. Even in the other countries you mentioned where Soccer is not the most popular it easily is the second most popular in places like India, it's certainly not American Football.

If you go to South America, Africa, Europe, Asia they all know who Christiano Ronaldo is and they don't have a clue who Tom Brady is. Everybody in the world knows who Pele and Mardona is but if you ask the World, outside the US who is Joe Montana, the would be like Joe who?

The World Cup is light years ahead of the Super Bowl in term of popularity and ratings. Super Bowl can't even beat the Champions League Final ratings.

I love to watch futbul with a ball kicked around an enormous field for a couple hours with almost no scoring as much as the next guy, but I'd rather watch American football.

Major_Snake

I love to watch futbul with a ball kicked around an enormous field for a couple hours with almost no scoring as much as the next guy, but I'd rather watch American football.

I love to watch futbul with a ball kicked around an enormous field for a couple hours with almost no scoring as much as the next guy, but I'd rather watch American football.

I love to watch futbul with a ball kicked around an enormous field for a couple hours with almost no scoring as much as the next guy, but I'd rather watch American football.

[QUOTE="TheGrat1"][QUOTE="percech"] Short attention span? A big problem for American viewers. Which is why the Super Bowl has a break after EVERY play.monkeytoes61

I disagree. Football requires much more tactical analysis than American Football from the simple fact that you have to manage your team's plays for fourty five minutes, twice, and not every couple of minutes. That, and you're also limited to only three field changes that can actually promote a change at the pace of the game, so you really have to ponder what to do.

Football also has a considerably larger amount of tactical praise given from the team as a whole: you don't have a single mind (in the field, disgregarding the coach) defining how something will play out -- it's a seamless interaction between the player's capacities and the game itself, where players have to decide on-the-fly which approach is most likely to succeed against the way they're oponent is playing. Proof of this is the relative lack of defined "plays" or "moves" in Football -- it depends on your adversary and on your team --, something very much present in A. Football.

You get to choose a new play (tactic) every 40 seconds between each plays that happens in 8 secs on average.