I need some help, and i need this info in 15 minutse the most ... please help
I need to know how many people in the world watch the Superbowl compared to how many people watch the Fifa World Cup, I need some facts...

I need these info in order to prove a point here, including: teacher stubborn sudents next to me etc

Oh thank you, i just prooved that football sucks in front of the class cuz i couldnt get the facts...... n I HATE LOOKIN LIKE AN IDIOT >_<!!!!!!

Perhaps people will post if you give them more than 3 minutes.

Anyway, this does not belong in this forum which is for talk about football.

This is a lounge topic.

Funniest 3 posts in a row, ever?

hall of fame

Perhaps you could explain just how many people you expected to post within the span of 15 minutes??

Further, you are pointing to a soccer message board to prove the popularity of soccer? If you want to prove something, you should do some proper research at the library...magazine articles, attendance records from various leagues and international competitions, etc.

lol joshinho is right.

Well for the hell of it id say more people watch the world cup Easy
Hey sod it more people watch the FA Cup to
This post deserves a banana

More than 1 billion people across the world watched the World Cup Final in 2002.

Around 60-100 million Americans watched the SuperBowl, along with 2 drunk Aussies that quickly switched over and a few crazy Europeans that actually find it intresting.

I'll leave you to do the Math even though it's too late. And what sorta question is that for school, it's far too objective to ever be able to change someone's mind.

How can you compare a three week long tournament (that happens every four years) to a one day event in terms of most viewers?

I watch about half the games every World Cup, am I being counted all those times? Yes, thats how you get to the 1 Billion figure.

If you want to compare the Super Bowl to anything compare it to the Final of the World Cup and odds are they'll be pretty even.

Actually 92nd Fish i heard rumours a Guy in the Isle of white was watching,
and someone in greenland but they had a dodgy ariel.....

Hahaha, this should definately go into the hall of fame...

dude more people watch the world cup final alone than the "super bowl of shit" and the 1 billion figure is only for the fucking final not for the whole tournament you crackhead. Anyways more people watch the champions league final and the even the euro cup final worldwide than the superbowl of shit. If im not wrong the super bowl was estimated to been watched by 700 million people but i didnt know that they were so many people living in the usa lol so i wonder where they get the other 400million from lol becuz people flipping thro thier cable channels in jamaica, england, south korea, nigeria, france, italy etc doesnt count as people actually watching it

lol damn i got warned, sorry for calling you a crackhead dude lol

1.1 billion alone, not a combined figure. As for the Superbowl it's nowhere near the World Cup Final, American Football is hideously unpopular outside of North America and Germany. Now if we wanted to count people every time they watched a world cup match in 2002 as Kid A claimed we'd get this:



As for Superbowl figures, I remember when it was building up to it, and English radio was covering it, they mentioned viewing figures of 60 million, which was down on previous superbowls but still prettty decent for the Superbowl. I added the other 40 million for casuals, people that might watch it in a bar etc.

Essentially in the battle between football and American football, there is only one winner.

its an absolute laugh to actually compare the superbowl to the world cup final

an absolute laugh!

You shouldn't even bother arguing with ignorant people. There's no point...it's like talking to racist people and trying to convince them racism is wrong at one point. Even if you told them the numbers, they'd still be biased.

Anyways, i don't know the exact numbers but i know billions watch the World Cup while only millions watch the superbowl.



Please tell me you're joking

Pretty even? ....good one bro

well isnt it ovious that people around the world watch the world cup and only americans watch the super bowl soccer is more famous than american football by far

When did this turn into lets attack kid a day?

How dare you.

Anyways. Soccer is the World Sport. Ok, no doubt about it. But whether you like it or not, whether you agree to it or not, there are press representatives from 190 countries in the Super Bowl every year.

Now, if you say that there were 1 billion people watching the final then Im surprised. If its true im not gonna argue it, it just seemed to me like a huge number. But again, if its true than I'm impressed.

The 60 million mark for the Super Bowl does seem small to me, I'm not the biggest American football fan ever, I have my team (the chargers!) and I support them but in no way do I consider it to be superior to Soccer (im calling it soccer just for clarity's sake) Hell I'm more of a baseball man myself.

So in conclusion, why dont we take a pill and calm down? look unless you live in the States do you realize the magnitude of the Super Bowl (its a national holiday) and unless you live in Europe do you realize the magnitude of soccer. I dont live in Europe and most of you guys dont live in the States. So we will never see eye to eye on this.

No need for name calling though, and you did apologize street so heres a


for all.

Good times.

i kno there is no point in arguing with idiots like them... I ended up callin a kid a fukin moron, this other tall blond ugly kid a loser and the teacher a stubborn bastard... lol oh well, they wouldnt listen, they kept saying oh SOCCER will never be as good as football OR Baseball.... I was like FuKC YOU, go do some research about wat ur talkin about and then u talk, cuz you sound like real idiots saying this....
"The World Cup is not nearly as Popular as the World Cup"... yeah OK ...idiot

not to argue a lot but kid a i live in da usa,and superbowl is not a "national holiday" or close!It's a commercial day where people gather to eat hotdogs,meat in general and companies come up with the "funniest"adds and football fans spend all day watching a game.
U could never compare two different sports,football is a traditional sport in the usa,but just go to some african or latin american countries,people havent proably seen what a football looks like,whereas soccer,a worldwide known sport attracts almost 1/3 of the worlds populations!Just one number all other soccer fans left alone,manutd has 60 million supporters worldwide by itself(and if the number given by(i forgot)is right thats the number of people who saw the superbowl this year!)

Roomania. Please find me a map of this "Da USA" you talk of... I am pretty good with Geography, but I have never heard of such a place.

World cup will have way more viewers for two simple reasons:

1) its a month long tournement.
2) there are 900,000,000 REGISTERED "soccer" players world wide. Regardless of how many Da USA'ans you may have eating your hotdogs, there arent 900,000,000 people in North America, where the superbowl takes place. Simply put, the superbowl doesnt get the coverage the World cup does.

oh and 3) Use the space bar. Works Wonders for Punctuating your words

Thats right. How can you compare two different sports? hell why compare anything! It may be tough to swallow, because those who dont know me dont know but I'm Mexican. Yep from Mexico. Born and raised, live right on the border so I know how big soccer is, It is not my intention to belittle soccer as opposed to football. American soccer fans will be the first to tell you that they are a minority in the U.S, and to the normal, to the mainstream american sports fan it is not even close how much bigger american football is.

You want proof? ESPN mentioned soccer recently only because of what happened in Milan. They were talking about how barbaric people in Europe were over soccer, they were saying that it was worse then the whole pacers-pistons thing and you know what...they're idiots! they dont know what the fuck they're saying with their hasty generalizations. The World Cup gets less airtime then Maurice Claretts latest fuck up! or Kobe Bryants latest screw up. I'll say it again, in case you guys dont understand.

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY IS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY.

no way! not a national holiday! shearer u know well wat i meant with "da USa" it's like u say saying "the" as i'v read many of ur posts. And coverage doesnt explain the difference between the 2 games, you have 900,000,000 registered players because you have 900,000,000 fans or at least people who luv the game. One thing i agree on with kid a is that u can't compare the 2 different sports, all the numbers are different , hell everything is gonna be different when comparing the two games, all you have to know is that football is a world known game who keeps growing, watched by billions of people, whereas american football is a national game televised in "da USA" and around the world(but the latter not having much success".

P.S:I think ponctuations really do work wonders when spaced!

Ahem, just to clear it up, the last world cup final, meaning the match between Brazil and Germany was watched by 2 BILLION PEOPLE around the world. Nothing on Earth at all can compare to the attention the world cup gets, no death from any princess or a pope, nor the olympics, definetly not the super bowl. Only the mark of the milleniam perhaps got as much attention as the world cup. But that happens only once every 1000 years. The Football World Cup every four. Just in Latin America alone, twice the number of people watched the world cup final than those who watched the super bowl, and when I say that, we must take into account that while 50 million Brazilians watched their national team win the world cup, their is still 70 million Brazilians that did not watch it, out of those 70 million Brazilians, most of them did not watch it because lack of ACCESS to a telivision. Their is roughly 280 million+ people living in the USA, it is estimated that the last super bowl was televised in 70 nations, in total, 150 million people watched the last super bowl. Between 30% to 35% of the people who watched the last super bowl admit to wathcing just for the commercials. In Korea, 90% of South Koreans watched their team win against Spain, I'm confident in saying that not one of them watched the game soley for the the commercials.

ok.

soccer DOMINATES ALL THE OTHER SPORTS COMBINED in viewers and ofcourse is the best sport ever... and im not even bias! but its true

I love both tremendously

well if u really want to know how many watch fifa WC fianl Vs superbowl u need to know on basic fact that around 200 countries or more r affiliated to fifa & now tell me how many r affiliated to american bowl.

if this piece of info is right than at the most 250 millions american vs 5 billion others . U may tell that not every one has television & answer is,yes, not every one has it but tell me whats the coverage of supebowl on the radio around the world against the same for fifa WC finals

I hope u got the answer & the asnwer is more ppl r concerned about FIFA WC than superbowl

Hey everyone, new memeber here. I've been reading quite a bit on the internet about the whole "american football vs world futbol" debate. I'm amazed at the ignorance of both sides. Just a little about myself; yes, i'm american. I've lived about half my life countries outside the US, and the other half around the US. I wasn't "raised" on football, or basketball, or really any of the big sports. In fact, the sports that I love now, I didn't even ay attention to until I was about 13 (with the exception of basketball...all cause of Michael Jordan). Anyways, let's get some figures straight (some of you got it right, some were off). The figures for the 2002 world cup viewing audience was 1.1 billion, the largest ever (http://www.mastercardintl.com/newsroom/sponsorship_overview.html). the 2002 Super Bowl, 132 million (http://www.jsonline.com/enter/tvradio/jan03/113838.asp), with 138.5 million being the largest (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=47871). Obviously, if this is an argument about which is watched the most, soccer rules (as everyone with a brain knows). Personally, I like football MUCH more than soccer. I've played/tried a lot of sports. However, soccer is very fun to play, really easy to learn, and pretty cheap to play. However, I find it more boring to watch than soap operas. I lived in Japan during the 2002 World Cup, and went to Korea (for shopping) during the same time. Being the sports guru I am, I tried to watch some games to see if I could change my perception of soccer. The atmosphere is great for people who love soccer, but I just couldn't get into it. Also, I could see some of the strategy in soccer, but less so in almost all the other sports I watch. By strategy, I primarily mean set plays. I love some of the elegance that happens in soccer with all the passing and such, but the simple fact that games can and often do end in ties pisses me off to no end. My summation of soccer, EXCELLENT sport to play, but not my cup of tea to watch.
Football is a great sport too. In America, football rules. I can't remember who said it, but it is actually like a holiday. In Japan, the Super Bowl is on a Monday, which is usually a work day. For the military (primarily americans of course), it's a pretty much a holiday. Schools are usually out, and most of the military personel are off. Those who actually do go to work, watch the Super Bowl and are thus not really working. As far as playing, football is actually pretty cheap to play. Organized football is kinda expensive (pads, shoes, uniforms...), but all you need for a pickup game of football is a football and some running room...perferably on grass. At the pickup level for beginners, football is just as easy to pickup as soccer. They both require about the same skill for beginners, and both require about the same amount of physical activity (endurance). I think some people don't realize that both sports (at the professional level) require a LOT of energy. I don't know why people say you run all the time in soccer. That's the biggest load of bullcrap I've ever heard. I've never seen a soccer game where everyone was running all the time. Not in the World Cup, not in pickup games...never. I don't know why people say football players are a bunc h of pussies cause they run for two seconds and rest for ten. When you run a play in football, you are running at full speed. After a play is finished, you go back to figure out the next play, then do the same thing again. Personally, I found I could play soccer for longer periods than football because half the time I was just jogging or walking around...and just to make it clear I'm not trying to degrade soccer.
Anyway, I think both are great sports. Soccer is the worlds game, football is america's game. We all love our sports for a reason, but the important thing is we all love sports. Shouldn't that be enough for soccer fans and football fans to be friends?