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Soccer beats Hockey in the US

Rocket

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Torgo said:
We have a third tier soccer team that used to play out of a high school football stadium. We're a real soccer hot bed.
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Until there's an MLS team present we can never know which city is a soccer hotbed. Toronto Lynx, a second tier team for example, used to draw between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators per game. Many MLS fans complained that the league shouldn't expand to that market because they would not have a big enough fan-base. Well, Toronto FC have sold out their entire season (will average over 20,000) and have 3,000 people on their season-ticket waiting list.
 

YearsintheWilderness

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Here's a question: Who are bigger fools, the people in charge of the English Premier League or the NHL?

A former 3rd world dictator with the blood of thousands on his hands just bought an English Premier league team for about 165 million US.

The NHL won't allow one of Canada's most successful businessmen to buy a struggling franchise for 240 million US.

Tough one...

:biglaugh:
 
mmk786

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YearsintheWilderness said:
A former 3rd world dictator with the blood of thousands on his hands just bought an English Premier league team for about 165 million US.
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He was not a dictator, he was democratically elected though his government was overthrown in a bloodless coup.
 

YearsintheWilderness

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mmk786 said:
He was not a dictator, he was democratically elected though his government was overthrown in a bloodless coup.
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Perhaps by the strictest definition he wasn't, though democratically elected politicians can certainly become dictators once in power.

He was well on his way to becoming a dictator. Human rights abuses, corruption and censorship as a result of his single minded attempt to **** the country for his personal profit were likely at levels as high as during "actual" dictatorships of the past.
 

nyrmetros

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Rocket said:
Until there's an MLS team present we can never know which city is a soccer hotbed. Toronto Lynx, a second tier team for example, used to draw between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators per game. Many MLS fans complained that the league shouldn't expand to that market because they would not have a big enough fan-base. Well, Toronto FC have sold out their entire season (will average over 20,000) and have 3,000 people on their season-ticket waiting list.
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and MLSE runs TFC and TML and TR and ACC and BMO Field.
 

hullsy47

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Rocket said:
One thing to keep in mind, many American soccer fans like me who either don't get Fox Soccer Channel or don't have cable watched the game on Univision. So not all of those numbers reported from the Spanish language channel belong to the latinos.
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hockey is regional .....there are as many mexican americans as there are all hocky fans in the US /CANADA combined..
 

Fugu

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hullsy47 said:
hockey is regional .....there are as many mexican americans as there are all hocky fans in the US /CANADA combined..
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There are even Mexican Americans who might like hockey, and maybe live in regions where hockey does well. One thing has nothing to do with the other.
 
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