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Originally Posted by gordon30307

Easy explanation of why college football and the NFL have the highest ratings.

GAMBLING.

Super Bowl Sunday generates the most action of any sporting event.

It's also why Soccer will never make it. Over/Under 3.

I don't believe that success is that significantly hinged to gambling, I sure hope not. I coached soccer, to this day the game eludes my understanding. My teams were terrible, they had an awful coach who got the leftovers, we were doomed, doomed, I say. :p

Boring boob tube doesn't assist rankings either, Tim..

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Originally Posted by Homerwary

I agree with SD Steve (again... how irritating!), Publius' post goes to the salient points. Americans' attention spans, averaging the duration of a lit match, are not up to the task of appreciating baseball's subtleties.

Deeja vu :D , I came out of a meeting where a 35yo software professional making $10,000 a month for 120 hours :eek: argued for ten minutes that he had "read" 11 pages of text. Each page was only half full at best. He could not repeat a single line.

Read = viewed = glimpsed = flashed like a MTV video in three second sequences = software pros meaning of the word "read". We thought he was being an asshat but he really believed he "read" the pages.. Perfect for the matchlike attetntion you rightfuly claim.