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Walter Sobchek

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posted February 04, 2002 07:56

Nobody posted on this yet? One of the best Super Bowls in recent memory?? Wow, what a game. Tom Brady is actually a pretty damn good QB. What bad ankle? And the pats' D was insane most of the game. Makes you wonder where the 14 point spread came from. It made things easy for me though.

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posted February 04, 2002 08:30

what? a team called the patriots won? does this seem mighty suss to anyone else?

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Foo

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posted February 04, 2002 10:47

thats funny you said that. i was comming home from a hockey game and listening to the superbowl on the radio and the announcer was saying that "the patriots won because of the whole 9/11 thing. their name shows that they are strong and should win the superbowl and because of their name they were destined to be the winners" i found it funny cuz it made it seem extremely rigged

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El Guapo Vandal

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posted February 04, 2002 11:16

Super Bore if you ask me. a 60 minute game, in which there is only about 20 minutes of actual plays, takes over 3 hours. incredible. did you know that it will likely not even be in the top 100 watched sporting events this year?

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***norm

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posted February 04, 2002 12:16

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did you know that it will likely not even be in the top 100 watched sporting events this year

Umm, are you high? The top 100 sporting events world wide or in the US?

In the US, it will be, as usual, the most watched single program of the year. Nothing in the US compares to the super bowl as far as viewership. NOTHING.
As far as the world, there may be a few things that will be watched more than the bowl, but in terms of total viewership, I doubt that even 10 will compare to the Super Bowl.

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El Guapo Vandal

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posted February 04, 2002 13:13

actually, i wouldnt be surprised if the world cup surpasses the super bowl in US viewership. they had what, 33.4 BILLION viewers (overall, obviously) last time around, and this time are expecting 50 billion. then there are the olympics, and then english, italian and spanish league football matches, both of which have high viewership. i bet that the FA Cup final, the Champions League final for sure, and the Scudetto final will probably compare. i bet that almost EVERY world cup game will get higher ratings i cant remember where it was, but i read somewhere that the match between manchester united and west ham rated higher than the last super bowl.

and obviously, im talking about world wide.

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melissa

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posted February 04, 2002 13:54

well i'm sure the part of my family that cares about football is most excited. they're pats fans.

yay pats, or something.

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Foo

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posted February 04, 2002 13:54

isn't there only something like 6 billion ppl in the world? i remember hearing them announce that the wprld's 6 billionth person was born last year. i doubt it skyrocketed to over 50 billion in one year

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El Guapo Vandal

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posted February 04, 2002 13:56

that was overall viewershi, as i said.

thats the addition of the viewership of all the games. if you want single figures, i think it was something like 3.2 billion people watched the world cup final in 98.

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Daniel

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posted February 04, 2002 14:17

The Raiders got screwed, so i didn't care who won. Overall, the first 3/4 of the game sucked, but the 4th quarter made up for it.

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Walter Sobchek

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posted February 04, 2002 14:37

the olympics, the world cup, these are both multiple game/event dealings. the super bowl is one 4 hour broadcast, which this year pulled in a 61 share/42.5 rating. this is shy of the top 10 tv broadcasts ALL TIME by 5 ratings points! and it's 8th out of the last 10 super bowls with these numbers! the world cup is not on this list, and one day of olympics (1994 harding vs. kerrigan battle) is. come on now. in the US alone, the world cup doesnt make it to broadcast tv until the ending of the tournament draws near. if you take the numbers OF THE WHOLE TOURNAMENT, then there's a comparison.

And back to the game, damn I would have loved to see Adam Vinatieri walk away with the MVP. He sliced the uprights from 48 yards unnerved. Would have been cool to see the kicker be the MVP.

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SickOfSlutes

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posted February 04, 2002 15:56

And yeah, this is the US, who really gives a shit about soccer anyways.

I loved the game last night; thought it was incredible. I too would rather have had Adam walk away with the MVP, he's the reason they were there in the first place. Remember the Raiders game? 2 long field goals IN A BLIZZARD. And then 2 fg's of 45 plus yards in the biggest game of the year with almost half the country (those with TV's on) watching. I mean, damn. That's clutch

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El Guapo Vandal

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posted February 04, 2002 16:12

are you kidding, more than half of the population of the entire world is supposed to watch the world cup final. youre talking half the country? this is half the WORLD. that is 3+ billion viewers for a 2 hour broadcast. as i said, the rest of the world cup games will very likely out draw the super bowl (worldwide, at least) in terms of viewership.

and actually, every single world cup game is going to be broadcast in the united states. most games of the 94 and 98 games were as well. also, look at the world cup tv package deals that the television companies were vying over in other countries, youd think that nasa came up with those numbers.

sports in the us are still backwards anyways, so i digress.

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the placebo

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posted February 04, 2002 18:06

i agree with el guapo vandal mostly. i definitely don't think all the world cup matches will beat the super bowl in viewership, but many will, especially the final. of the first round, i think that the one that will be watched the most will be the argentina-england match (which argentina will win...they will win the cup actually). definitely the FA cup and champions league final will rival the bowl, but i don't know how well they'll do.

i'm very excited about the world cup this year though. about 13 of my friends and i will be in costa rica on a senior trip during june, so i'm excited to watch the cup games in bars or whatever with some natives who truly love the game. too bad the US won't make it past first round as usual. they MIGHT...if they can beat poland, which probably won't happen. the US will be destroyed by portugal. probably something like 4-0 or 5-0. there will definitely be good matches though, like the argentina-england match first round...how cool is that. argentina will take the cup though.

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thechaostheory

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posted February 04, 2002 19:20

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Originally posted by Walter Sobchek:
Tom Brady is actually a pretty damn good QB.

NO HES NOT!!!! Bledsoe shouldve been in that game. how can an mvp throw for a total of like 140 yards on 20+ passes, bullshit. im from freakin new england and i cant stand the guy. i cant wait til bledsoe is a Buc and he takes em to the bowl!

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Walter Sobchek

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posted February 04, 2002 20:13

I don't consider him amongst the league's elite, but for a guy that young to be able to carry his offense to a super bowl win on a (arguable) bum ankle, i'm just giving credit where it's due. he doesn't really have an arsenal of receivers at his disposal like Warner, Gannon, Garcia, or others. he was still 3rd in the AFC (amongst full time QBs) in QB rating. so just giving credit where it's due. i thought he proved himself.

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weezer

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posted February 04, 2002 22:06

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Originally posted by Daniel:
The Raiders got screwed, so i didn't care who won.

Raiders!! Freaking refs and their stupid calls. Hopefully we'll have a good season next year. We should've gone all the way this year though!

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El Guapo Vandal

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posted February 05, 2002 10:44

oh, and in my other posts about viewership, i completley forgot about the rugby world championship (huge draw), and several cricket matches im sure could draw massive numbers (if not soley because of the indian subcontinent)

but, as for the nfl, its all about the browns and if you think otherwise, quite frankley, your a cunt.

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Walter Sobchek

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posted February 05, 2002 18:54

I just want to say....I don't care about cricket. it might be a fan favorite over in Indonesia or wherever, but here in America, no matter how much you don't like it, there is no bigger television draw from year to year than the NFL's Super Bowl. Now let's stop trying to make this an argument by bringing in arbitrary facts from places people have most likely never even been to from this bored. I was commenting on the fact that this was a great game which exceded expectations, and I didn't mention once it's comparison to the East Asian National Jai-Lai Quaterfinals that must have drawn 275 million viewers from all corners of the globe.

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El Guapo Vandal

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posted February 05, 2002 23:55

im just saying... there is always this aire about the bowl... "worlds biggest" this and "worlds most" that... it makes americans even more closed minded about sports than they already are. hell, americans are closed minded about almsot everything it seems. just tryin to help that out a bit, ya know?

and still. its all about the brownies. beeyotch.

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Barrett

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posted February 06, 2002 00:10

The superbowl was pretty boring, I'm surprised the Ram's punter didn't get MVP.

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Mike

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posted February 06, 2002 03:38

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Originally posted by El Guapo Vandal:
im just saying... there is always this aire about the bowl... "worlds biggest" this and "worlds most" that... it makes americans even more closed minded about sports than they already are. hell, americans are closed minded about almsot everything it seems. just tryin to help that out a bit, ya know?
and still. its all about the brownies. beeyotch.

yeah i saw the parade during school yesterday (most of the kids in my school went so they just had most of the people that were there watch the thing) and the players kept saying how they were "world champions". that was so fucking annoying, there aren't even any teams from out of the US in the fucking NFL. they're not world champions, they're US champions.

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