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Old 04-16-2008, 11:31 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by boilermaker View Post
I need to take that back. The top rated pro-soccer matches do a 2.5 share while the average NBA game on network TV does a 1.1 share, but that's cherry picking. I can pick out soccer games that outdo NBA games, but you can pick out a lot of NBA games that outdo soccer broadcasts.

Still, I would say that this country is far more a soccer country than people give it credit for. When people crack jokes about the sport's popularity, they're being willfully ignorant.
Yeah but that's only because San Antonio & Detroit are always on.
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