Americans don't care about a sport unless they are best at it

[jd_uk]

You have the statement wrong, it should be


"If Americans care about a sport then they become best at it."


You see this is how that works. We have the viewing audience with the most money and will buy the titles via the best players if we care. Most of the time "care" is determined through marketing.

Here are the 2007 muscle ranking for sports money

tiger
lefty
beckham
Raikkonen
James
mayweather
ronaldinho
messi
bryant
federer
alonso
oneal


Out of those earners 425 of the 580 million dollars brought in was american.

My point is we care because that is what is marketed to us, not what we really care about. With that said the marketing doesn't work if we aren't the best. If you are going to spend a lot of money to cheer for a good team or player then it/they better be good for the money.

You've got to be kidding right???

Money does not always equal being the best. Beckham is nowhere near the best soccer player in the world even if he does earn massive amounts.

The biggest (most popular) sports in the world are not dominated by America, therefore Amercicans seem to care more about sports that ONLY THEY play. So then there's no real competition...

 

[jd_uk]

I saw that, it was pretty sweet

Amazed there wasn't a thread about it. If you o on a UK based discussion sports board tehre will be a thread about it but Amercians don't seem to care unless they win. That's what made me ask this question.

 

[chris302001]

Bolt is just incredible...he jogged the last 15m and broke the world record.

My brother was a sprinter in high school and college. I was a couple years older than him, so when I was in college I'd drive home to hold his blocks for him when I could. His fastest was 10.78 in the 100, 22.5 in the 200, and 48.0 in the 400.... It was amazing because my brother and I couldnt be any more different. He was a super lean sprinter, and I was a thrower.

 

[Dial_tone]

American media? True
Americann people? False

I would watch track & field, cycling, weightlifting if no Americans were in it.

 

[jd_uk]

My brother was a sprinter in high school and college. I was a couple years older than him, so when I was in college I'd drive home to hold his blocks for him when I could. His fastest was 10.78 in the 100, 22.5 in the 200, and 48.0 in the 400.... It was amazing because my brother and I couldnt be any more different. He was a super lean sprinter, and I was a thrower.

Damn those are good times....i'd love to see what times i could run but unless you have proper equipment it's not possible to be accurate for events like 100m

 

[Megalomaniac]

You've got to be kidding right???

Money does not always equal being the best. Beckham is nowhere near the best soccer player in the world even if he does earn massive amounts.

The biggest (most popular) sports in the world are not dominated by America, therefore Amercicans seem to care more about sports that ONLY THEY play. So then there's no real competition...

read my post again. We care what is marketed to us. Football isn't marketed to use(very well at least) and so we don't care. Same with rugby, cricket ect. If it was successfully marketed then we would care and we would be the best, that is what money does.

they brought beckham over for marketing reasons, if they continue then they will all be overhere and we will be the best.

I'm just saying it is the marketing the makes us care, the performance comes with the money. Have you ever looked closely at how well the NFL markets it product? That creates care and top performers.

 

[Cardinal Slin]

Here are the 2007 muscle ranking for sports money

tiger
lefty
beckham
Raikkonen
James
mayweather
ronaldinho
messi
bryant
federer
alonso
oneal

How many of these are Americans?

 

[MaGilicuti]

a more accurate topic is americans don't like soccer. perhaps the slow pace of the game doesn't please most americans' short attention span. also if the better european leagues were widely broadcasted we'd probably watch that. no one watches mls because its just not good soccer. we want to watch the best competition.

and what other "sports" don't the americans care about? all those other sports mentioned in this thread are ridiculous gay.

also the rest of the world doesn't care about football while its america's biggest sport so you can say the same exact thing (the rest of the world doesn't watch sports they are not the best in) for that as well.

 

[jerseyrugger76]

Only fags & soldiers need body armour orbly!!1 & the only way you can get away with wearing 60lb of shite is the stoppages every 2min.

+1

 

[chris302001]

Damn those are good times....i'd love to see what times i could run but unless you have proper equipment it's not possible to be accurate for events like 100m

We were screwing around after practice my senior year so he went and threw shot and discuss and I took a timed lap. lol my best time in the 400 was around 58 seconds......I didnt even bother in anything else.