Read his post - copied below to save you looking!

They pretty much all thought the same as Kirrie - vested interests keeping soccer off the telly and out of people's consciousness are too powerful for football to make much progress there any time soon. (Not just from the other sports - also from advertisers / Networks etc, because footie just doesn't offer the same scope for advertising that the other sports do.)

Posted By: Kirrie on July 1st 2014 at 16:33:00

Message Thread

44% of Americans would rather see the US win the WC than their own pro sport team succeed. (Other Football) - norway, Jul 1, 15:52:51
- Footy's popularity changes with the wind, near MLS finals and World Cup it is v. popular (n/m) (Other Football) - John in Texas, Jul 1, 16:43:26
  - Bit like Wimbledon.... (n/m) (Other Football) - Vivid Data Shark, Jul 1, 16:46:51
    - VM (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 16:49:02
- who cares? (Other Football) - ingi, Jul 1, 16:43:10
  - Confidence levels! Margin of error! Sample sizes! (Other Football) - norway, Jul 1, 17:53:41
- 53% of Brits would rather see their national side lift WC than their club win league (Other Football) - Henclrikus, Jul 1, 16:33:22
- I've got some Yankee friends from California (Other Football) - Surrey Yella, Jul 1, 16:30:21
  - Which is curious (Other Football) - norway, Jul 1, 16:32:00
    - It's theatre. And there are a gazillion stats (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Jul 1, 17:04:25
- The NFL brain injury scandal has turned..... (Other Football) - usacanary, Jul 1, 16:13:19
- Haters gonna hate (Other Football) - usacanary, Jul 1, 16:08:44
- Yep called it (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 15:54:33
  - Americans love America= shockinh (n/m) (Other Football) - usacanary, Jul 1, 16:10:15
    - Americans love American pro sport! (n/m) (Other Football) - Kirrie, Jul 1, 16:11:19
    - Shocking fucking iPhone (n/m) (Other Football) - usacanary, Jul 1, 16:10:42
      - American piece of shit. (Other Football) - Garry Brooke, Jul 1, 16:22:26
  - Brad Friedel said last week that they are on the verge of breakthrough (Other Football) - norway, Jul 1, 16:02:28
    - 44% of 0.0075% of the population - hardly representative and not what you encounter...... (Other Football) - Kirrie, Jul 1, 16:10:06
      - You don't understand polling and sample sizes do you? (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Jul 1, 16:21:17
        
        Polling gives an indication and its accuracy varies. (n/m) (Other Football) - Kirrie, Jul 1, 16:23:29
        
        How well is this going for you? (Other Football) - norway, Jul 1, 16:29:09
        
        Erm 237,000 out of 318 million.....do the maths! (n/m) (Other Football) - Kirrie, Jul 1, 16:36:33
        
        I did the Math (Other Football) - usacanary, Jul 1, 17:00:30
        
        This is going really well, isn't it? (Other Football) - Arizona Bay, Jul 1, 16:54:31
        
        My mistake on the maths, for which I apologise! (n/m) (Other Football) - Kirrie, Jul 1, 17:01:15
      - And yet the permanent residents of the US on here say different to you... (n/m) (Other Football) - Yellalee, Jul 1, 16:14:59
        
        VMT^^^ (n/m) (Other Football) - John in Texas, Jul 1, 16:41:40
        
        Telling it as I found it in Florida and Washington staying with Americans! (Other Football) - Kirrie, Jul 1, 16:20:24
        
        Not really he was saying why footy wasn't massive (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 16:24:31
        
        You then rambled on about baseball being king (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 16:27:47
        
        The USA-Portugal game drew a larger TV audience than the World Series (n/m) (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Jul 1, 16:29:21
        
        Yes saw that and on a par with Sunday American football (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 16:30:48
        
        Actually isn't baseball popularity dropping loads (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 16:32:05
        
        hardly comparable considering the MLB regular season is 160 games per team..... (Other Football) - Kirrie, Jul 1, 16:35:02
        
        We were talking about the World Series (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 16:41:53
        
        Details. (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Jul 1, 16:29:50
        
        He said - quote "They pretty much all thought the same as Kirrie". (n/m) (Other Football) - Kirrie, Jul 1, 16:26:47
        
        So he thinks Americans don't give a shit then (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 16:29:30
        
        It may be that i'm misrepresenting you completely (Other Football) - Fozzybear, Jul 1, 16:50:30
        
        Ah thanks! (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 16:54:58
        
        Nearly. Actually (Other Football) - CB41, Jul 1, 16:54:14
        
        Yes my apologies (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 16:57:22
        
        Ha ha, whooooosh (Other Football) - CB41, Jul 1, 17:10:27
        
        Lets just ignore the stats and use a few anecdotes (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 17:03:03
        
        Read his post - copied below to save you looking! (Other Football) - Kirrie, Jul 1, 16:33:00
        
        But your relevant points are wrong (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 16:34:48
        
        So you keep saying! (n/m) (Other Football) - Kirrie, Jul 1, 17:01:48
        
        Yes you give anecdotes and make sweeping generalisations (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 17:04:36
        
        But he's been to America, he knows. (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Jul 1, 17:11:19
        
        True day (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 17:18:29
        
        Dat!!!!!! (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 1, 17:18:43

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