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There really not enough professional teams of any sport for most Americans to follow. I mean most sports teams are based in cities and if you live in a far away part of a state you'll have absolutely no kind of connection to those teams. That's got to be some kind of contributor to why college sports are so popular. The Eagles/Steelers example was brought up which is east/west Pennsylvania. Who the hell are you supposed to root for if you live in the middle of Pennsylvania which is hundreds of miles away from either team?
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Vladimir Putin posted:There really not enough professional teams of any sport for most Americans to follow. I mean most sports teams are based in cities and if you live in a far away part of a state you'll have absolutely no kind of connection to those teams. That's got to be some kind of contributor to why college sports are so popular. The Eagles/Steelers example was brought up which is east/west Pennsylvania. Who the hell are you supposed to root for if you live in the middle of Pennsylvania which is hundreds of miles away from either team? The Eagles or Steelers. This isn't really hard .
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Jun 8, 2015 16:32
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Vladimir Putin posted:There really not enough professional teams of any sport for most Americans to follow. I mean most sports teams are based in cities and if you live in a far away part of a state you'll have absolutely no kind of connection to those teams. That's got to be some kind of contributor to why college sports are so popular. The Eagles/Steelers example was brought up which is east/west Pennsylvania. Who the hell are you supposed to root for if you live in the middle of Pennsylvania which is hundreds of miles away from either team? According to this map of football fandom by county, probably the Steelers. 
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Jun 8, 2015 17:47
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When in doubt always choose the non-Philly team.
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Vladimir Putin posted:There really not enough professional teams of any sport for most Americans to follow. I mean most sports teams are based in cities and if you live in a far away part of a state you'll have absolutely no kind of connection to those teams. That's got to be some kind of contributor to why college sports are so popular. The Eagles/Steelers example was brought up which is east/west Pennsylvania. Who the hell are you supposed to root for if you live in the middle of Pennsylvania which is hundreds of miles away from either team? Buck the Pennsylvania trend and root for a good team?
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If you live in a rural nowhere like central PA you root for whoever is designated your local team and so has their games shown every week. It's a TV sport. See also all the big empty states with Broncos fans.
FuriousxGeorge fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jun 8, 2015 |
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Vladimir Putin posted:There really not enough professional teams of any sport for most Americans to follow. I mean most sports teams are based in cities and if you live in a far away part of a state you'll have absolutely no kind of connection to those teams. That's got to be some kind of contributor to why college sports are so popular. The Eagles/Steelers example was brought up which is east/west Pennsylvania. Who the hell are you supposed to root for if you live in the middle of Pennsylvania which is hundreds of miles away from either team? While this is definitely true, it's really much more than that. The cult of college sports is much greater than that of professional sports, even in places that have both. Look at the whole Perdue fiasco. While the lions are and pretty much always have been perineal losers, they're still massively popular even a good ways from Detroit, and their popularity overlaps with the popularity of the Spartans and the Wolverines, but can't even come close. It's a larger part to do with the communities are built around the school, and college marketing is a hell of an industry. So who wants to donate $10m to me? I absolutely promise I will give you nothing in return!
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Jun 8, 2015 19:00
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Total Meatlove posted:This rule needs ', was first featured in a book, or is called Kronum' as an addition. There goes my plan for a Calvinball league.
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Jun 8, 2015 19:06
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Vladimir Putin posted:There really not enough professional teams of any sport for most Americans to follow. I mean most sports teams are based in cities and if you live in a far away part of a state you'll have absolutely no kind of connection to those teams. That's got to be some kind of contributor to why college sports are so popular. The Eagles/Steelers example was brought up which is east/west Pennsylvania. Who the hell are you supposed to root for if you live in the middle of Pennsylvania which is hundreds of miles away from either team? The number of Packers fans in Seattle says this doesn't make any sense.
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SedanChair posted:The number of Packers fans in Seattle says this doesn't make any sense. Seattle is mostly transplants these days, and those are the sort who root for the 'good' team. And the Packers have been good for awhile.
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I am an idiot
DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jun 8, 2015 |
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E: problem solved!
Captain_Maclaine fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Jun 8, 2015 |
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In other news, that movie about the history of FIFA and the rise of honest executive Sepp Blatter bootstrapping himself up to greatness made a whopping $607. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-fifa-movie-united-800664 quote:Writer-director Frederic Auburtin's film beyond bombed in its limited debut in 10 theaters, earning a measly $607 on Friday and Saturday, according to those with access to Rentrak figures. The FilmBar theater in downtown Phoenix reported a gross of just $9, meaning only one person bought a ticket to see United Passions, which details the history of the now-embattled FIFA.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Not sure you're posting in the right thread, ace. Edited it if you could do the same 
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Did this get posted yet? http://www.thescore.com/liga/news/777033 quote:Morocco won the voting process to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, not eventual host South Africa, and both countries offered bribes to secure votes, according to a report in The Sunday Times. Unfortunately the original Times article is paywalled: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/fifa/article1565843.ece
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colonel_korn posted:Did this get posted yet? So out of curiousity: Who's paying this bribe money to FIFA? Is it the Government themselves or some other political/business entity inside the country that's drafting up these payolas?
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DeathSandwich posted:So out of curiousity: Who's paying this bribe money to FIFA? Is it the Government themselves or some other political/business entity inside the country that's drafting up these payolas?
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It's also much easier to do in countries that are... lax in their oversight practices.
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colonel_korn posted:Did this get posted yet? World Cup stolen from Morocco. What organisation would help Morocco in order to right this wrong? quote:Relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States date back to the earliest days of U.S. history. Morocco remains one of America's oldest and closest allies in the Middle East and North Africa, a status affirmed by Morocco's zero-tolerance policy towards al-Qaeda and their affiliated groups. Morocco also assisted the U.S. CIA with questioning al-Qaeda members captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Somalia and elsewhere during the administration of George W. Bush, who designated the country as a Major Non-NATO Ally. 
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John Dough posted:In other news, that movie about the history of FIFA and the rise of honest executive Sepp Blatter bootstrapping himself up to greatness made a whopping $607.
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OniPanda posted:While this is definitely true, it's really much more than that. The cult of college sports is much greater than that of professional sports, even in places that have both. It depends entirely on what place you are talking about. Philadelphia has a college football team in (hahahaha) Temple but the cult of the Eagles is the biggest in town and as crazy as any college fanbase in most ways. Same thing in Pittsburgh, Steelers rule that town. On the other hand, there are some ways the college craziness will always be greater. No pro coach could ever get the untouchability and local sainthood Joe Paterno did. That's what happens when you have these programs that can fill 100,000 seat stadiums in the middle of nowhere in college towns so dependent on the college the town is literally named, "State College, PA."
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FuriousxGeorge posted:No pro coach could ever get the untouchability and local sainthood Joe Paterno did. You make this sound like a bad thing.
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Toplowtech posted:I don't even know why it was released in theater in the US considering it went for straight to DVD release in Europe and no one cared. Probably some sort of contractual obligation
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ayn rand hand job posted:You make this sound like a bad thing. Funny, because I would think saying a system gives a child rape approving guy sainthood would be read as not an endorsement of that system.
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FuriousxGeorge posted:On the other hand, there are some ways the college craziness will always be greater. No pro coach could ever get the untouchability and local sainthood Joe Paterno did. 
Eschers Basement fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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Jun 9, 2015 01:07
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Toplowtech posted:I don't even know why it was released in theater in the US considering it went for straight to DVD release in Europe and no one cared. The free screener in LA had two people in the audience.
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FuriousxGeorge posted:It depends entirely on what place you are talking about. Philadelphia has a college football team in (hahahaha) Temple but the cult of the Eagles is the biggest in town and as crazy as any college fanbase in most ways. Same thing in Pittsburgh, Steelers rule that town. Even worse, Pitt actually has a pretty good college football history, though not a good history of having fans actually attend games.
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Ran out of town on a rail just for losing a few seasons. Not at all comparable to Joe "I approve of raping children" Paterno.
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Toplowtech posted:I don't even know why it was released in theater in the US considering it went for straight to DVD release in Europe and no one cared. quote:BIALYSTOCK It's not quite Springtime for Hitler, but movies are a fantastic way to launder money. There are lots of people to pay, there's creative accounting even in successful productions, and nobody's going to think twice about millions of dollars vanishing into the Sepp Blatter biopic. Space Gopher fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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FuriousxGeorge posted:Funny, because I would think saying a system gives a child rape approving guy sainthood would be read as not an endorsement of that system. Eh, I misread your post. My bad.
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Cliff Racer posted:Even worse, Pitt actually has a pretty good college football history, though not a good history of having fans actually attend games. Pitt had decent attendance when they were at Forbes on campus. Their biggest mistake was moving to Heinz.
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Pope Guilty posted:According to this map of football fandom by county, probably the Steelers. If you open this in Google maps and zoom way way way in on Louisville you can literally see my location as a single dot of black
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DeathSandwich posted:So out of curiousity: Who's paying this bribe money to FIFA? Is it the Government themselves or some other political/business entity inside the country that's drafting up these payolas? In the South African case the $10 million was diverted at the request of the South African World Cup Organising Committee from it's budget provided by FIFA , a bunch of letters have been leaked confirming that South African Football Association requested the money be diverted ostensibly to fund a Diaspora Legacy Programme that was part of their bid - however they do go out of their to specify that the money be specifically transferred to Warner. Also, over the weekend the South African Sunday Times leaked an email between Jerome Valcke and the deputy finance minister that indicated this was arranged directly between Blatter and the then President Thabo Mbeki. The original is paywalled but the Telegraph has a brief description including the offending email: 
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Space Gopher posted:It's not quite Springtime for Hitler, but movies are a fantastic way to launder money. There are lots of people to pay, there's creative accounting even in successful productions, and nobody's going to think twice about millions of dollars vanishing into the Sepp Blatter biopic. See also: porn and Bollywood
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Space Gopher posted:It's not quite Springtime for Hitler, but movies are a fantastic way to launder money. There are lots of people to pay, there's creative accounting even in successful productions, and nobody's going to think twice about millions of dollars vanishing into the Sepp Blatter biopic. I wouldn't be surprised if this is one time the blatant laundering through the movie is noticed, if only because it all gets caught in the RICO net as yet another thing to throw at Blatter.
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It takes a particularly lazy mind to translate "il y a quelques semaines" as "there are few weeks". All the warning signs were there.
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SNAKES N CAKES posted:It takes a particularly lazy mind to translate "il y a quelques semaines" as "there are few weeks". All the warning signs were there. Yes. That is some bad knowledge of French 
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Jerome is a French name, and he is the sender, so I think it was bad knowledge of English rather than French? Or it could be both? SNAKES N CAKES posted:It takes a particularly lazy mind to translate "il y a quelques semaines" as "there are few weeks". All the warning signs were there. Attachments: "About WinZip Compressed Attachments.txt" Who doesn't know how to open a .zip file by 2007?
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Slaan posted:Jerome is a French name, and he is the sender, so I think it was bad knowledge of English rather than French? Or it could be both? Fifa executives are people who would agree the internet is a series of tubes.
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Slaan posted:Jerome is a French name, and he is the sender, so I think it was bad knowledge of English rather than French? Or it could be both? A lot of quite wealthy people over the age of 50 have real trouble with anything remotely modern in technology.
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