Quote:i dont believe a true comparison can be made with US sports and the WC... i honestly can say this is a situation where you are comparing apples to oranges... to me, it is like comparing the champions league to the world cup... its just not the same thing on any level other than the sport being played... managers lose there jobs if they dont make the champions league.... player switch teams if champions leagues are not won with a club.... the champions league is the biggest stage for club level football in Europe and the world cup is the biggest stage for nation team football... the shier fact that there are more people watching the WC is irrelevant because you are talking about the attention of full countries rather than clubs... when it comes to the super bowl being compared to anything in soccer, it should be compared to the champions cup if anything at all... and when looked at on that level i think they are about even.


at the end of may, anyone who cares about a club soccer team is watching the champions cup final regardless if their team is in it or not just like in the beginning of February, anyone who cares about american football is tuned into the super bowl... i think that is all there is to compare between the two.


Sidenote: DF, just wonering who your favorite club team is in soccer... Do u have a favorite tier 1 league team in euro? Like ajax or psv or someone like that.

 

Comparison might not be fully correct, perhaps illustration is a better word to use. It just so happens that the Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event in America and therefor the closest equal to the kind of fervor the World Cup generates. No matter which two teams make the finals, I can practically guarantee those countries will effectively shut down on gameday.

 

And I don't follow the domestic league beyond a casual interest but I prefer Ajax over the others. Interestingly my dad is also an Ajax fan, my sister is a diehard PSV fan and she's married to a Feyenoord fan though he doesn't take soccer very seriously outside of national games. 

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