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LOL. Soccer is the world's game and it is not being forced on us.

The England-Italy game that was played on Saturday averaged a 2.6 rating for ESPN with 4.615M viewers. That makes it ESPN/ESPN2’s most-watched non-U.S. Group Stage World Cup game ever. The network says that only three U.S. men’s Group Stage matches have delivered a larger audience (the side has yet to take the field this year). In terms of household ratings, England’s defeat at the hands of the Azzurri is the 2nd highest-rated non-U.S. Group Stage World Cup game, falling behind Thursday’s Brazil-Croatia opener which scored a record overnight average of 3.2 in the metered markets. Univision, meanwhile, reports that its World Cup audience is 25% larger among total viewers than in 2010 through eight matches.

I bet tonight's US-Ghana game will draw more viewers (combined Univision and ESPN) than last night's NBA fifth and final game.

The FIFA World Cup is the quadrennial soccer championship held every four years since 1930 (with two exceptions as a result of that whole WWII thing). The Cup’s final game is the single most viewed sporting event on earth. The 2010 match between Spain and The Netherlands was watched by an estimated 700 million people. That’s a decent chunk of the world’s entire population.

Are you Gay by any chance?

http://www.gallup.com/poll/4735/sports.aspx%22

Yes soccer has almost doubled in popularity in the last 11 years! From 2 to 4%. LOL

I wonder if the whole anti-soccer bias is really just about the name. If we called American football “tackleball” and called soccer “football” or “futball” or whatever like the rest of the world, I don’t think it would inspire so much hatred.

I think we’d just kind of look at it, laugh at it a little for being weird and boring, and then change the channel. Kind of like when curling is on during the Olympics.

I think its a branding issue. Like Coke versus Pepsi. We see “real” football as ours and “soccer” as something stupid because its theirs.

And to make it even worse, we aren’t the best in the world (or even close) in soccer, so that irks our American pride.

So, basically, if you don’t hate soccer, you’re a commie pinko bastard who does not love his momma, Jesus or apple pie and you have a picture of Obama next to your bed that you kiss every night before you go nighty-night in your flannel footie PJs like a gol’durn candy-ass Nancy-boy.