Why Is The World Cup A Big Hit In North America This Time?

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  • Mutt
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Sep 2002
    • 34431
    #1

    Why Is The World Cup A Big Hit In North America This Time?

    the TV ratings for the World Cup are way the fuck up in the US and Canada - ESPN is killing with it - i wonder why it's catching on now?
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    • L-Pink
      working on my tan
      • Mar 2005
      • 39151
      #2
      The what?

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        • Sarah_Jayne
          Now with more Jayne
          • Dec 2002
          • 40077
          #3
          Firstly, there are more people that are from countries or cultures where football is popular in the country now. Secondly, the generation that played it as kids are now parents and can afford cable.

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            • ProducerCashDave
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              • Jun 2006
              • 3983
              #4
              One of the many questions that have plagued mankind since the dawn of time
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                • czarina
                  Webmaster Extraordinaire
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 10751
                  #5
                  It is the sport of choice for this season. Next cup, it might not be so hot.

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                    • Mutt
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Sep 2002
                      • 34431
                      #6
                      Originally posted by sarah_webinc
                      Firstly, there are more people that are from countries or cultures where football is popular in the country now. Secondly, the generation that played it as kids are now parents and can afford cable.
                      there were millions of people from those countries already in the US in 2002 and 1998 and soccer has been a huge sport with kids in North America for a long time - myself - i think the Internet has changed Americans and Canadians to a lesser extent - interacting with people on the Internet from Europe and elsewhere has made people less ethnocentric and more interested in things non-American.
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                        • Sarah_Jayne
                          Now with more Jayne
                          • Dec 2002
                          • 40077
                          #7
                          funnily enough I am in the process of writing a 2000 word essay on globalisation as we speak

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                            • he-fox
                              Confirmed User
                              • Jun 2006
                              • 2884
                              #8
                              I can see two possible reasons:
                              1. Because we bash the Americans here to stop being rednecks and they go and tell their friends, who tell their friends, who tell their friends...
                              2. "Soccer" being gay, as they say, a lot of Northern Americans turned gay since 2002.

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                                • Kinky John
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Sep 2005
                                  • 655
                                  #9
                                  because so many beaners live there now

                                  AND the states are slowly growing a better team

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                                    • he-fox
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Jun 2006
                                      • 2884
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by Kinky John
                                      AND the states are slowly growing a better team
                                      make that VEEERY slowly

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                                        • Grapesoda
                                          So Fucking Banned
                                          • Jul 2003
                                          • 46234
                                          #11
                                          better targeted advertising + more low income immigrants?

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