Has football made it in the USA?

[My_Blood_Bleeds_Red]

Back in the day, baseball was all about beers and hotdogs. Now people just doordash instead.

 

[localny]

Here's the average weekly TV stats on US SPORTS (2022-23)
NFL (Football) - 16.7 million.
NASCAR - 3 Million
MLB (Baseball) 1.60 Million (Opening night)
NBA (Basketball) - 1.59 million
NHL (Ice Hockey) 1.43 million
F1 - 1.21 million
Premier League - 527K
MLS - 295K

Also Series and Finals
NSCAA College Football Final - 19 million
NSCAA (College Basketball March Madness) - 10 million
Masters Golf Final - 9.5 million
NASCAR Playoffs - 3.7 million
World Cup Final 2022 - 3.59 million
Champions League Final 2022 (Pool v Real) - 2.76 million
Arsenal-Liverpool match on April 9 2022 - 833K (most streamed PL match ever)

Source:
https://www.statista.com/topics/2113/sports-on-tv/#topicOverview

MORE on the PL
Premier League draws second-best season yet on U.S. airwaves
6.5.2023
The Premier League's first season of a new media rights pact with NBC Sports -- its 10th season with the broadcaster -- delivered the second-best season of U.K. soccer on U.S. airwaves to date. Games across NBC, USA and CNBC averaged 527,000 viewers for the 2022-23 season, behind only the 2015-16 season on U.S. TV. That figure includes streaming on Peacock and other NBC digital outlets. The Premier League is up 3% from 510,000 viewers last season. There were nine matches drawing over 1 million viewers -- also NBC's second-best figure for the league. That included the two best Premier League matches ever on U.S. TV, led by Arsenal-Manchester United on Jan. 22 with 1.9 million. Peacock also drew an average minute audience of 833,000 viewers for its exclusive Arsenal-Liverpool match on April 9, which is the most-streamed Premier League match yet in the U.S.

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{td}527{/td}
{/tr}
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{td}510{/td}
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{td}2020-21{/td}
{td}414{/td}
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{td}2019-20{/td}
{td}462{/td}
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{td}2018-19{/td}
{td}457{/td}
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{td}449{/td}
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{td}447{/td}
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{td}540{/td}
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{td}479{/td}
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{td}2013-14{/td}
{td}438{/td}
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[The Nomad]

Here's the average weekly stats on US SPORTS
NFL (Football) - 16.7 million.
MLB (Baseball) 1.60 Million (Opening night)
NBA (Basketball) - 1.59 million
NHL (Ice Hockey) 1.43 million
Premier League - 527K
MLS - 295K

Also Series and Finals
NSCAA College Football Final - 19 million
NSCAA (College Basketball March Madness) - 10 million
Masters Golf Final - 9.5 million
NASCAR Playoffs - 3.7 million
World Cup Final 2022 - 3.59 million
Champions League Final 2022 (Pool v Real) - 2.76 million
Arsenal-Liverpool match on April 9 2022 - 833K (most streamed PL match ever)

Source:
https://www.statista.com/topics/2113/sports-on-tv/#topicOverview

MORE on the PL
Premier League draws second-best season yet on U.S. airwaves
6.5.2023
The Premier League's first season of a new media rights pact with NBC Sports -- its 10th season with the broadcaster -- delivered the second-best season of U.K. soccer on U.S. airwaves to date. Games across NBC, USA and CNBC averaged 527,000 viewers for the 2022-23 season, behind only the 2015-16 season on U.S. TV. That figure includes streaming on Peacock and other NBC digital outlets. The Premier League is up 3% from 510,000 viewers last season. There were nine matches drawing over 1 million viewers -- also NBC's second-best figure for the league. That included the two best Premier League matches ever on U.S. TV, led by Arsenal-Manchester United on Jan. 22 with 1.9 million. Peacock also drew an average minute audience of 833,000 viewers for its exclusive Arsenal-Liverpool match on April 9, which is the most-streamed Premier League match yet in the U.S.

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{td}2021-22{/td}
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So a long way to go.

 

[localny]

So a long way to go.

Edit: The PL stat includes streaming.

 

[Farkmaster]

Those are good numbers for a really undesirable time slot, but it's clearly a lesser sport. People still actively hate it, and large swaths of the country don't give a shit at all. Anecdotally, and also not, it's rise for me is on the back of an odd mix of mostly richer white kids and then a rising population of Spanish speaking immigrants.

I'm glad it's not that popular here.

Who cares? Every sport is obsessed with getting bigger. The obsession with having more broad appeal has made many sports worse, and in general, for me, once I can watch the sport I want to watch, why the fuck would I care whether others are watching it?

 

[Dreambeliever]

Dude I called it football. Always have.. Maybe you should just go back to tugging yourself to Ange as that seems to be the only thing you know how to do

Where are you from in Ireland?

 

[localny]

As a dub, it was always football and that other game was GAA or Gaelic Football

 

[the count]

As a dub, it was always football and that other game was GAA or Gaelic Football

Yea, always footy/football for me too.

 

[Dreambeliever]

As a dub, it was always football and that other game was GAA or Gaelic Football

Aha West Britian and inside the Pale. That explains it.

 

[localny]

Aha West Britian and inside the Pale. That explains it.

Yes, your use of "sacccar" is a bit "beyond the pale"

 

[Irishanfield]

Where are you from in Ireland?

From where anfield got it's name...

 

[Dreambeliever]

From where anfield got it's name...

You are from the surrounding area?
Btw I haven’t met any of you boys so my still stands I haven’t met any Irish person who calls it football

 

[the count]

You are from the surrounding area?
Btw I haven’t met any of you boys so my still stands I haven’t met any Irish person who calls it football

So @StevieM isn't Irish?

 

[Woland]

Thirty years of hard work at stormont and westminster all casually undone in a flash by one post from the count.

 

[localny]

I had no idea!

Anfield’ is derived from the name ‘Annefield’ which means ‘The River Fields’. The club is named after a farm area in Wexford County

You are from the surrounding area?
Btw I haven’t met any of you boys so my still stands I haven’t met any Irish person who calls it football

You need more Dubs in your life. If I called it soccer back in the day I’d have been dropped

 

[Irishanfield]

You are from the surrounding area?
Btw I haven’t met any of you boys so my still stands I haven’t met any Irish person who calls it football

Im from Ireland. Anfield Lane gets its name from an area in the town of New Ross in southeast of Ireland.

Now as I said, I've always called it football, most of my friends who are into it called it football, do have people who are more into GAA will refer to it soccer

 

[Irishanfield]

I had no idea!

Anfield’ is derived from the name ‘Annefield’ which means ‘The River Fields’. The club is named after a farm area in Wexford County



You need more Dubs in your life. If I called it soccer back in the day I’d have been dropped

It's basically a lane.. There was a family called Graves who had a tar and shipping business based in new ross who expanded their business to Liverpool and bought an area of land in Liverpool and called it after their own homestead(the castle styled house is still lived in today) in rosbercon, new ross, Co wexford

 

[tombrown]

So, it's the guys from the right-hand side of the country who call it football.

In my defense my own personal exile is on the far left, with stone walls and grasses green

 

[Dreambeliever]

So @StevieM isn't Irish?

He’s British/Northern Irish. Clearly shows his allegiance with an affiliation for inferior crisps.

 

[Dreambeliever]

I had no idea!

Anfield’ is derived from the name ‘Annefield’ which means ‘The River Fields’. The club is named after a farm area in Wexford County



You need more Dubs in your life. If I called it soccer back in the day I’d have been dropped

The last thing any Irish person needs is more dubs in their life

 

[Dreambeliever]

Im from Ireland. Anfield Lane gets its name from an area in the town of New Ross in southeast of Ireland.

Now as I said, I've always called it football, most of my friends who are into it called it football, do have people who are more into GAA will refer to it soccer

Seems maybe a Leinster thing so in fairness I stand corrected,

 

[Irishanfield]

Seems maybe a Leinster thing so in fairness I stand corrected,

Eh?
Leinster is province and would would be the least likely one to where it would be referred to as soccer. If anything I would say more than likely in the west in the rural areas where it would be most common

 

[Woland]

I'm sure they say soccer over in westport

 

[The Nomad]

He’s British/Northern Irish. Clearly shows his allegiance with an affiliation for inferior crisps.

And he's Ross's twin separated at birth.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Eh?
Leinster is province and would would be the least likely one to where it would be referred to as soccer. If anything I would say more than likely in the west in the rural areas where it would be most common

Exactly, I meant calling it football in Ireland was a Leinster thing considering the English influence.

 

[the count]

I'm sure they say soccer over in westport

They do,
Dreamy is being Dreamy.

 

[StevieM]

You are from the surrounding area?
Btw I haven’t met any of you boys so my still stands I haven’t met any Irish person who calls it football

*cough*

As if us proddies in the north would call it anything other than football.

I’m pretty sure the DUP will cite calling it “soccer” as a reason to stay in the UK.

 

[StevieM]

He’s British/Northern Irish. Clearly shows his allegiance with an affiliation for inferior crisps.

I’m pretty sure you’ve been hanging about too long in the bit of the wardrobe the missus stores her underwear - it’s melted your brain.

I mean… what’s left of it

 

[Woland]

*cough*

As if us proddies in the north would call it anything other than football.

I’m pretty sure the DUP will cite calling it “soccer” as a reason to stay in the UK.

Soccer is catholic hate speech.

 

[StevieM]

Soccer is catholic hate speech.

Next they’ll be allowing you to pick up the ball and giving you points for hoofing it over the bar**!!!!










** Darwin Nunez likes this idea!!!