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  1. 09-24-2013, 09:43 PM #1
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    CFL gets better ratings than MLS on ESPN???

    That's what this thread says:

    http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/cf...spn.453253659/
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    I'm not a soccer fan or expert by any means but when I first saw TFC play it looked like NCAA level soccer!
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    Except NCAA is better.
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    No surprise here. When I first moved to New York , MSG2 used to pick up the America One feed of the TSN Friday night game. The feed of a feed picture quality literally looked like someone smeared Vaseline all over my tv screen. Anyhow, the ratings at that time were a very impressive 60 thousand in the NY market alone. And the quality of the TV package has improved so much since 08.
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  5. 09-25-2013, 01:53 PM #5
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    Americans like their football. I don't understand why anyone is surprised by this except if they are looking to use it to take a shot at MLS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by argofan87 View Post
    Americans like their football. I don't understand why anyone is surprised by this except if they are looking to use it to take a shot at MLS.
    it should be a surprise to at least some people for the simple reason that there are exactly zero U.S.-based teams in the CFL. Definitely surprised me.
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  7. 09-25-2013, 08:55 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by argolio View Post
    it should be a surprise to at least some people for the simple reason that there are exactly zero U.S.-based teams in the CFL. Definitely surprised me.
    It would probably surprise a lot of Torontonians who see the MLS as being major-league while the CFL isn't.
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  8. 09-25-2013, 11:14 PM #8
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    These comments on the MLS are silly and ultimately wrong. I've just Googled up most of the rankings for the summer from the same blog source and there's weeks where 300K to 400K were watching MLS (although it definitely drops lower as well). The CFL consistently got +200K viewers for it's five weeks with 350,000 in its first and best week. The CFL numbers seem strong enough to merit renewal. We should be happy about that rather than wishing the worst for soccer.
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    Interesting thread argolio...good research.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tau Ceti View Post
    These comments on the MLS are silly and ultimately wrong. I've just Googled up most of the rankings for the summer from the same blog source and there's weeks where 300K to 400K were watching MLS (although it definitely drops lower as well). The CFL consistently got +200K viewers for it's five weeks with 350,000 in its first and best week. The CFL numbers seem strong enough to merit renewal. We should be happy about that rather than wishing the worst for soccer.
    Can you please point out to me who on this thread was "wishing the worst for soccer"? Or are you reading minds now?
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    Can you please point out to me who on this thread was "wishing the worst for soccer"? Or are you reading minds now?
    The very title of the thread is a put down to MLS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tau Ceti View Post
    The very title of the thread is a put down to MLS.
    You're kidding right? Looks more like an endorsement of the CFL to me. Imagine that..someone posting something positive about the CFL on a CFL fan forum.

    Last edited by AngeloV; 09-26-2013 at 03:19 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by argolio View Post
    That's what this thread says:

    http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/cf...spn.453253659/
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    You're kidding right? Looks more like an endorsement of the CFL to me. Imagine that..someone posting something positive about the CFL on a CFL fan forum.

    Looks more like a question to me and a post with findings that the original poster didn't even bother to confirm himself.
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    MLS ratings were as high as 346 000 in late August according to the site that the thread that Argolio posted used. It is true that the CFL whenever shown during the same week as MLS had the higher ratings at least for the few weeks that I could find.
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    Quote Originally Posted by T-Bone View Post
    Looks more like a question to me and a post with findings that the original poster didn't even bother to confirm himself.
    That's fine. I still fail to see where anyone posted anything even resembling "wishing the worst for soccer" which is the reason I challenged that post. Maybe you can point this out, because I sure am missing what that poster saw.
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    The question I'd ask is why the MLS specifically is being singled out for comparison although that is more a question for cutechemist42 on IGN rather than Argolio.
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    I'm not necessarily dwelling on the fact that the CFL was compared to ratings for another sport altogether, but why the original thread on IGN singled out MLS. I don't think it's a question were going to have answered either.
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    Look, I just was asking who on this thread was "wishing the worst for soccer", and how the poster came to that conclusion. I still have yet to receive a logical answer to it.

    Why is it that everytime MLS is mentioned in a thread over here, the MLS fans need to make more out of it than it is?
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    Quote Originally Posted by AngeloV View Post
    Look, I just was asking who on this thread was "wishing the worst for soccer", and how the poster came to that conclusion. I still have yet to receive a logical answer to it.

    Why is it that everytime MLS is mentioned in a thread over here, the MLS fans need to make more out of it than it is?

    T-Bone, when did you get ahold of AngeloV's account? Questioning intent and asking for clarification is instigating.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AngeloV
    Look, I just was asking who on this thread was "wishing the worst for soccer", and how the poster came to that conclusion. I still have yet to receive a logical answer to it.

    Why is it that everytime MLS is mentioned in a thread over here, the MLS fans need to make more out of it than it is?
    I'm not an MLS fan. I've been to one game live and never watched on television. Not that that should matter.

    I just find it odd on this forum how many people seem to have inferiority/superiority issues with regards to the MLS. Why does beating that league constitute validation for the CFL? I could just as easily point to the same blog and announce: "CFL loses out big time to NASCAR in the United States." Would I really be proving anything?
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