Soc it to me

According to the ratings, just less than 13 million Americans watched Saturday’s World Cup match between the U.S. and England.

Or, put another way, 296 million Americans did not watch. *

It was the highest rated World Cup match on American TV since 1994.

BTW, do you know where the term soccer comes from? According to something I read, as various forms of football evolved in the late 19th century, the form Americans now call soccer came to be known as Association Football. FIFA, for example, is the acronym in French for the organization known in English as the International Federation of Association Football, Fédération Internationale de Football Association.

The soc in soccer comes from the soc in Association.

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* I’m just picking on Hugh. Actually the 7.5 rating for the England-U.S. match is about the same as the NBA Finals and not all that bad. And it’s 13 million Americans ages 18-49 who watched. People older and younger than that do not count. So, probably it was just 290 million Americans who did not watch.

4 thoughts on “Soc it to me”

  1. “And it’s 13 million Americans ages 18-49 who watched. People older and younger than that do not count.”

    They used to advertise to us baby boomers and follow along as we aged. Maybe they forgot why they were following those age groups. There are still lots of us, and we still have more money than younger folks. Maybe they think we’re too savvy to fall for their ads.

  2. People older than 49 are the ones that blather on, Andy Rooney-like, about soccer being “boring”, so it is only right that they don’t count. And yet they will sit through six pitching changes in the eighth inning, or 10 time outs in the last two minutes (indeed, the whole second and third quarters) of an NBA game, or something hugely compelling — the sacred ritual known as “icing the kicker.”

    Those who hate commercials should LOVE soccer, 90 minutes of action, movement, and team play, unbroken by GoDaddy, Viagra, and Chevy Chevrolet commercials.

    And don’t get me started on “acting” or “flopping” in the three major sports.

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