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Old 04-30-2008, 05:13 PM
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I can't recall the last time a soccer match made the front page of any major United States newspaper... while horse racing tends to at least once or twice a year.
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Just gotta love ESPN.....now, that's what really sucks!
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I can't recall the last time a soccer match made the front page of any major United States newspaper... while horse racing tends to at least once or twice a year.
The hell difference does that make in terms of what sport has more fans?
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I'm not disputing soccer on a worldwide scale, but on a US-base scale, I question its overall popularity, that's all.
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I'm pretty sure there are more U.S. soccer fans than horse racing fans.
very few of them speak english.
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My guess is at least 60% of Premiership fans are watching this. What percentage of racing fans watch the Derby Draw? 25%?
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The hell difference does that make in terms of what sport has more fans?
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I'm not disputing soccer on a worldwide scale, but on a US-base scale, I question its overall popularity, that's all.
It's not wildly popular in the U.S., but it's easily more popular than horse racing, which is barely a blip on the national sports scene.
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The hell difference does that make in terms of what sport has more fans?
Whatever....it's over, still this is classic ESPN crap!
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get this soccer sh1t off! noone cares about what a few douches have to say about soccer.
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On second thought.................
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Well, that's it, you won the argument. You're talking about front pages of newspapers, I'm talking about which sport has more fans and which fans are more likely to be watching their show..
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I do like Soccer mom's though, they seems pretty fun sometimes
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Put these soccer morons on another channel
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Now the post game show????

I will say Seamus Malin is one of the best color commentators of any sport out there. Grew up watching him work the Cosmos games.
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Oh cool...now they're gonna show the highlightZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Un-friggin real.
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I'm not disputing soccer on a worldwide scale, but on a US-base scale, I question its overall popularity, that's all.
Take a walk on the backstretch sometime and take a poll.
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I do like Soccer mom's though, they seems pretty fun sometimes
The only good thing about the sport
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This typical ESPN......thoroughbred racing has NEVER been a priority.
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The only good thing about the sport
actually, the girls', I mean women's, soccer team when I was in college was not that shabby...
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