ESPN is getting so bad now with all this PR crap. They have to broadcast every sport so they don't hurt anybody's feelings. This soccer thing is really dumb, nobody watches soccer. Open the paper and look at the box scores do you see soccer? Lacrosse? Skateboarding, no! For the last 20 years everybody's been saying its the next big thing and guess what it's not!
Quit your crap espn
Hey, the rest of the globe called and reminded you that soccer is pretty much the most watched and played sport in the world.
I'm with you on the Lacrosse.
Big soccer fan, though.
Don't see them doing much skateboarding.
I feel exactly the oposite. I'd like to see world championships level coverage of a wider variety of sports, olympic sports, etc.. I'd be much more interested in watching the world championships of xc skiing, volley ball, track cycling, table tennis, badmition, curling, or many other sports instead of a bobcats v grizzlies mid-season blowout.
stick with eharmony wrote:
ESPN is getting so bad now with all this PR crap. They have to broadcast every sport so they don't hurt anybody's feelings. This soccer thing is really dumb, nobody watches soccer. Open the paper and look at the box scores do you see soccer? Lacrosse? Skateboarding, no! For the last 20 years everybody's been saying its the next big thing and guess what it's not!
Quit your crap espn
Isn't the US like 75% Latino these days?
Most of those guys love soccer.
stick with eharmony wrote:
They have to broadcast every sport so they don't hurt anybody's feelings.
Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly why they do it, not because they are trying to make money. Let me guess, "the libruls" are behind this, what with their feminist-homosexual agenda to make everyone feel like a winner?
Science! wrote:
I feel exactly the oposite. I'd like to see world championships level coverage of a wider variety of sports, olympic sports, etc.. I'd be much more interested in watching the world championships of xc skiing, volley ball, track cycling, table tennis, badmition, curling, or many other sports instead of a bobcats v grizzlies mid-season blowout.
This.
Hate to break it to you, but lacrosse is extremely popular in the northeast. The national title game drew 35,000 people, and that was considered low (they have gotten up to 48,000 before)
http://www.laxpower.com/common/NCAA-Attendance.php
Meanwhile, nationals at Drake last year drew 29,000 people for the 4 days COMBINED (down from 41,000 in '08, but still COMBINED)
Can't wait for the Champions League final tomorrow.
Not Even Close wrote:
Hate to break it to you, but lacrosse is extremely popular in the northeast. The national title game drew 35,000 people, and that was considered low (they have gotten up to 48,000 before)
http://www.laxpower.com/common/NCAA-Attendance.phpMeanwhile, nationals at Drake last year drew 29,000 people for the 4 days COMBINED (down from 41,000 in '08, but still COMBINED)
http://www.perelman-pioneer.com/?p=150
Yeah do me a favor name me one team or one player or some stat about Lacrosse. Nobody is sitting on the edge of their seat waiting for lacrosse finals to happen. It's a joke sport for d-bags, its a freaking cult!
For the soccer homers, welcome to America. The real football is AMERICAN FOOTBALL. If you want to watch your soccer go turn on your ESPN deportes. This is america nobody gives a flyin fvck about futbol, excuse me soccer.
Man, you're pretty hardcore bro. By the way, the Man City game got 800k viewers on ESPN the other day at a terrible Sunday morning time slot. That doesn't include all of the people who watched at bars and pubs of course. I know that you have been scared of commies ever since your grandpappy molested you in the woodshed in the 80s and told you about how evil foreigners are, but soccer is pretty popular in the states. Deal with it.
Yeah I wanna watch more real sports like poker!
/rolls eyes/
If anything more soccer would be good, better than watching the same baseball highlight for the twentieth time in a row. Skateboarding doesn't air really any time outside of the X Games or the Dew Tour. Lacrosse needs to get the axe, only the northeast cares (but as the 3 minute montage to the Knicks indicates, ESPN thinks the northeast is all there is to the country).
ESPN should go back to its roots and show more ping pong, or maybe some Aussie Rules Football and other sports you don't see that much
stick with eharmony wrote:
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Angry white man much?
I got sick of hearing ESPN talk about how much money this guys was making and how this guys was holding out for even more money and how much money a coach is worth... ad nauseum.
I have not watched ESPN in over a year.
Lacrosse is spreading across the US. Denver is now a big-time program. High-schools in the South are starting lacrosse programs. It's a fast paced physical game that has a lot less physical contact than football, but still allows for some mixing it up to go on.
There is a pro league, I don't usually watch it, but I do watch college lacrosse.
stick with eharmony wrote:
Quit your crap espn
And hopefully by crap, you mean talking about the same unimportant thing for all of sports center. For example, why is notable or important that Andrew Luck showed up for mandatory rookie practice? Or pretending that Peyton Manning's injury was the only important thing occurring in the NFL for half of the season?
Lacrosse is a niche sport, primarily played in and dominated by colleges in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic states, and developed in private high schools in those regions. I know the sport has gradually made its way West, but has done so at the club level, and is not a varsity sport in the most of the rest of the country's high schools or colleges, save a few examples.
I think it is pushed by ESPN because its East Coast execs grew up with it, or have kids playing it, and it is similar to football in excitement and agressive contact, which Americans seem to love. Most US viewers care very little about watching or following the sport, outside of the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic.
Soccer is massively popular, but I think ESPN has a covert antagonistic stance toward American soccer, to preserve the appeal of high school, college, and NFL football, which also occur in the Fall. Over the years, it has become apparent that they have consistently allowed for soccer bashing in virtually every Sports Center broadcast that, despite its rarity, mentions soccer at all. They know the Hispanic and immigrant populations love soccer, so they throw it a bone on occasionally on ESPN2 or over at ESPN Deportes, but this year have even scaled that back, with most MLS games covered on the old OLN/Versus, now NBC Sports channel.
ESPN has an interest in promoting skateboarding to ensure the financial succes of its X Games.
Old Gregg wrote:
Man, you're pretty hardcore bro. By the way, the Man City game got 800k viewers on ESPN the other day at a terrible Sunday morning time slot. That doesn't include all of the people who watched at bars and pubs of course. I know that you have been scared of commies ever since your grandpappy molested you in the woodshed in the 80s and told you about how evil foreigners are, but soccer is pretty popular in the states. Deal with it.
Thanks for proving my point. 800k is horrible for ESPN, anybody can get 800k. The brojos could host a show on there and you'd get more than 800k. Might as well as have played that game on the freaking moon nobody is watching that garbage.
stick with eharmony wrote:
Old Gregg wrote:Man, you're pretty hardcore bro. By the way, the Man City game got 800k viewers on ESPN the other day at a terrible Sunday morning time slot. That doesn't include all of the people who watched at bars and pubs of course. I know that you have been scared of commies ever since your grandpappy molested you in the woodshed in the 80s and told you about how evil foreigners are, but soccer is pretty popular in the states. Deal with it.
Thanks for proving my point. 800k is horrible for ESPN, anybody can get 800k. The brojos could host a show on there and you'd get more than 800k. Might as well as have played that game on the freaking moon nobody is watching that garbage.
Keep up the hate dude. you are approaching kkk levels.
Not Even Close wrote:
Hate to break it to you, but lacrosse is extremely popular in the northeast.
No its not