2014 FIFA World Cup - Brazil

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RowdyRam02, Kraft would have to put a lot of his own money
wherever he decides to put The Revs.
Not sure what could be done with Brown Stadium, as the one side is permanent
cement structure.
There is room on the end zone sides and a little on the visitors side for expansion.
Would Brown get in bed with a professional franchise? Money isn't a big carrot for them.
Bet Cranston or East Providence would bite on expanding their venues.
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bigappleram wrote:15-18 million people watched each of our first round games, that is not a niche event.
When can we admit this number is blown slightly out of proportion? In 2010 for a 2:30 game against Ghana, I believe TV ratings were around ~19.4 million, nearly 15 on ABC and additional on Univision. And that was not a primetime game like most of the US games in this World Cup. The US's first game in 2010 against England drew over 17 million between ABC (13) and Univision (4), again a game played at 2:30. And the games played at 10 AM in 2010 (2) obviously drew poorly because the game was at 10 AM. Have we really seen such drastic growth this year? IMHO, it's impossible to tell given time zone changes. The US played one game (Germany) at an inconvenient time, and the rest were at nearly in primetime. How can we compare the games when they are all scattered around? How can you compare a 6 PM game to a 2:30 PM game? I guess I just don't see how this year the TV numbers indicate this drastic growth of soccer love around the country any differently than they could have in 2010. The closest thing we will probably have to judging is the Finals, where in 2010 at 1:30 the Netherlands and Spain were viewed by 21.3 million in the US. This year they play at 3. Slight advantage, but should show how much national interest has expanded.
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The Revs really should build a stadium on the harbor in South Boston. The American soccer audience is an urban young professional one. Not a lot of them want to schlep out to Foxboro to watch a game. People would go if it were in the city.
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"The American soccer audience is an urban young professional one."
Well, that's bullshit. It's mostly new immigrants and first generation people.
I don't see urban blacks being drawn to soccer.
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I don't think EP could expand enough to host the Revs, they are too constrained by the baseball field and street
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Cranston could.
There's the main standing concrete stands, but there's room at one end,
where it's just open ended, and the opposite side could be expanded upward and outward a bit.
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urban does not mean black, it means city enviroment. the soccer audience is largely young and live in metropolitan areas, i.e. not the suburbs or rural areas. If you want to deduce most soccer fans are first generation immigrants (which i dont agree with) then where do immigrants likely move to....Charlestown or Providence?
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rodfromcranston wrote:"The American soccer audience is an urban young professional one."
Well, that's bullshit. It's mostly new immigrants and first generation people.
I don't see urban blacks being drawn to soccer.
LOLWUT
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Die Mannschaft!

5-0! What an awesome half.
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Great game between Netherlands and Argentina
Argentina now plays Germany for the World Cup (in Rio no less) on Sunday. Not so great for Brazil fans to have their rival country playing for the Cup in their own Country.
Brazil plays Netherlands for 3rd place on Saturday.
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I cannot accept deciding these games on penalties. So lame.
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Golden Goal would be more fun to watch, but with limited substitutions you could legitimately risk killing someone. Especially in the Brazil heat and humidity. Recipe for disaster. Tough situation but it is what it is. It should encourage a more attacking style of play in extra time, but these teams seem content to take their chances on penalties for some reason.
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Just don't put money on whatever team Mick Jagger is rooting for.
Seems he's the kiss of death over the years for numerous teams in
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growing up; my indoor soccer league had an interesting overtime. It was sudden death(golden goal) for 20 minutes. Every 5 minutes, the opposing coach would select a player to sit down. It encouraged offense and opened up the field the longer it went.
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seanmc94 wrote:growing up; my indoor soccer league had an interesting overtime. It was sudden death(golden goal) for 20 minutes. Every 5 minutes, the opposing coach would select a player to sit down. It encouraged offense and opened up the field the longer it went.
They do that in high school softball too - As the game goes on, you get runners on second and third. While ideally you'd like to see the game just go on, all you need to do is look at the Stanley Cup playoffs to see why that's not always preferable. There's typically more shots and scoring in hockey than soccer, and it still took them six overtime periods one time to have a winner.
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