Pew: Americans show some interest in IRS lost emails; not much in World Cup

American Thinker ^ | 07/01/2014 | Rick Moran

[mkboyce]

This is a good thing.

Sports are great. Slavishly following them to the detriment and neglect of more important matters is not.

[Goldsborough]

Soccer is called “invader ball” by some of the wags here in Oregon.

[hinckley buzzard]

The title is backward: The story reveals more interest in the World Cup than in the IRS emails. Last Thursday at noon the American team played Germany before 18 million American viewers. That is not a trivial audience.

One wonders why the anti-soccer faction is so defensive. It's only a game boys and girls.

[dfwgator]

The soccer ratings aren’t bad, considering the games are played in the afternoon on weekdays.

Should the US beat Belgium today, they would next play this Saturday.

I would expect the ratings for that game to shatter all previous records for any soccer game in this country.

[snowstorm12]

The ratings should be through the roof with the way they are hyping this soccer world cup. They are telling everyone they need to watch on almost every news channel all day long. With that amount of free advertising plus having the built in audience of espn, the ratings should be much higher than they are.