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Old 10-28-2018, 02:45 PM   #14861 (permalink)
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You don't even live here, what would you know? You're just a desperate soccer nerd.
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Old 10-28-2018, 02:48 PM   #14862 (permalink)
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You don't even live here, what would you know? You're just a desperate soccer nerd.
Well I know because I'm a soccer nerd, obviously.

Third most attended sport (above NBA and NHL). Thanks.
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Old 10-28-2018, 02:50 PM   #14863 (permalink)
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I follow MLS and the World Cup. I can’t even tell you for sure what league Leicester is in. Premier I guess, which I don’t follow at all. Sorry if I let you down. I watch Atlanta United if I get a chance because I have a team to root for. League play in Europe doesn’t interest me at all so Bat is like half right in my case.
Charles wasn't talking about Europe. MLS is soccer so thanks for letting us know you follow it mate.
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Old 10-28-2018, 02:54 PM   #14864 (permalink)
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When I was working at Ebay they had the world series on all the T.V.s and a lot of soccer fans crawled out of the wood works. And other than my coworker who was on a soccer team, I don't think any of them were passionate enough about it to where a jersey or a team logo like they would with football, baseball or basketball. Or, hell, even hockey. But they're out there. I think it's more of a thing they like between preferred sports.
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Old 10-28-2018, 02:57 PM   #14865 (permalink)
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Well I know because I'm a soccer nerd, obviously.

Third most attended sport (above NBA and NHL). Thanks.
And yet somehow my country you know nothing about gives a ****. It's pretty amazing how the third most attended sport in my country has not the slightest amount of hype.

I guess you'll never consider that any more than you'll consider anything else anyone has ever told you that you don't want to accept.
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Old 10-28-2018, 02:58 PM   #14866 (permalink)
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When I was working at Ebay they had the world series on all the T.V.s and a lot of soccer fans crawled out of the wood works. And other than my coworker who was on a soccer team, I don't think any of them were passionate enough about it to where a jersey or a team logo like they would with football, baseball or basketball. Or, hell, even hockey. But they're out there. I think it's more of a thing they like between preferred sports.
Good post.

I agree they are out there, despite what Charles thinks. The evidence is in the average attendances.

Thanks for your contribution, Lucem.
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Old 10-28-2018, 02:59 PM   #14867 (permalink)
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True. MLS is trendy right now and fun and people are showing out for games. But like compared to football there’s no comparison. Everyone at work knows who won and who lost every top 25 college football game the previous Saturday. On Monday, everyone knows if there were any upsets in the NFL. Just for conversation with a coworker there’s going to be a good chance they don’t even know MLS is a thing.

I still think Bat is too dismissive of 50,000 plus fans making it to the games but other countries don’t get how sports crazy America is. I’ve compared soccer in Europe to college football in America. The numbers of fans who make it to games consistently in America are much higher than soccer in Europe. If MLS totals 1% of what football is here that’s still huge. Counting high school, college, and NFL and how woven into our cultural fabric football is 1% of that is huge.
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And yet somehow my country you know nothing about gives a ****. It's pretty amazing how the third most attended sport in my country has not the slightest amount of hype.

I guess you'll never consider that any more than you'll consider anything else anyone has ever told you that you don't want to accept.
It top trends on social media regularly. That is a decent amount of hype. Thanks.
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NBA arenas are intentionally small. The season is 82 games. LeBron James alone is more famous than all of MLS combined.
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