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Guide to American sports - yvonne - 06-14-2010
Big Ten - a college sports league with 12 teams
Big XII - a college sports league with 10 teams
Football - a field sport involving 24 specialized players, two of whom are permitted to kick the ball
World Series - a baseball championship involving the winners of two America\'s baseball leagues
Re: Guide to American sports - Farm93 - 06-14-2010
Quote:Big Ten - a college sports league with 12 teams
Big XII - a college sports league with 10 teams
Football - a field sport involving 24 specialized players, two of whom are permitted to kick the ball
World Series - a baseball championship involving the winners of two America\'s baseball leagues
As we learned in Buddy ball. Â The QB can kick the ball too. Â :( Â
Re: Guide to American sports - CowboyIndian - 06-14-2010
Quote:Football - a field sport involving 24 specialized players, two of whom are permitted to kick the ball
That\'s the Canadian version of football you\'re talking about, right?
OK, Yvonne...I get it. You like soccer; the world likes soccer; I don\'t.
How do you feel about polo or, as I like to call it, soccer on horseback?
Re: Guide to American sports - fullmetal - 06-14-2010
Quote:As we learned in Buddy ball. The QB can kick the ball too. :(Beat me to it.
Re: Guide to American sports - yvonne - 06-14-2010
11 offensive players; 11 defensive players; 2 kickers (offensive and defensive players usually make up the rest of special teams)
Putting polo on the same level of a true world championship reveals your (ahem) provincialism. Â Each World Cup match is expected to have a similar viewership level to the Super Bowl. Â The cumulative total viewership for the World Cup is 30 BILLION. That\'s more than three times the world population!
http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/new-economy/2010/0611/TV-audience-for-World-Cup-2010-will-be-epic.-Will-US-tune-in
Re: Guide to American sports - CowboyIndian - 06-14-2010
Quote: The cumulative total viewership for the World Cup is 30 BILLION. That\'s more than three times the world population!
Which proves that most of those watching soccer are from another planet. Â ;)
Are you trying to convert me with all this stuff?
Re: Guide to American sports - yvonne - 06-14-2010
You can do better than that, Garvin. Â Just as we watch distant events in sports bars, people from other countries congregate to watch football, particularly if it involves the national side.
Re: Guide to American sports - yvonne - 06-14-2010
Quote:Quote: The cumulative total viewership for the World Cup is 30 BILLION. That\'s more than three times the world population!
Which proves that most of those watching soccer are from another planet. ;)
Are you trying to convert me with all this stuff?
I realize you\'re beyond conversion, CI. Â I just wanted to show you what life was like outside the cocoon. Â You may return now. Â
Re: Guide to American sports - CowboyIndian - 06-14-2010
Just a different cocoon, Yvonne. You can go back now.
Re: Guide to American sports - terry - 06-14-2010
Yvonne, if you want to communicate clearly, I would suggest that you should stop saying "football" when you really mean "soccer." We get it, you like soccer, but I would guess that close to 100% of us use the term "football" to refer to the game played by John Elway and Toby Gerhart, rather than the game where it\'s OK to play the ball off your face.
Buddy? Coulda\' swore the QB quick kick... - Redrum - 06-14-2010
...was Idiotface\'s invention. Â Or was that centering the ball? So hard to remember who brought the finer points of billiards into the Stanford playbook.
Re: Guide to American sports - slide - 06-15-2010
Garvin, I am with you on the 30B total TV viewer audience, but FIFA jots up viewers a bit differently. Â for instance, if you watched the Stanford-Cal game live on tv, I would count you once. Â if you watched the Stanford-Cal game live on tv and then watched a replay later that night, I would count it as one view, but FIFA would count you twice. Â if you watched a portion of the game the next day, I would still count you once, but FIFA now has you at 3 times as a "non-unique" viewer.
check out the following from FIFA. Â very interesting in that overall viewership is down over 20% since 1994. Â
http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/ffprojects/ip-401_05a_tvstats_9299.pdf
Re: Guide to American sports - yvonne - 06-15-2010
Quote:Just a different cocoon, Yvonne. You can go back now.
Nope, sorry CI, but the world is a lot bigger than the Good Ol\' US of A.