The World Cup is 246x bigger than the Super Bowl

Whats wrong with just using the WC final match?

Its a sad indictment of a sporting event when a high percentage of the pre-coverage centres on the half time show(Madonna) and the commercials/advertisements (i’ll be watching in the UK and on the BBC so no commercials all night…joy).

You can’t compare one match to a whole tournament.  Football or “Sawwca” is the most popular sport in the World in every continent bar Australasia and the final is watched by a far, far amount of people than listed above.

Americans are very proud of the Superbowl and rightly so. Its a big, bright, and bold  sporting occasion and everyone will probably know the winner tomorrow. However, not too many outside America shall be watching tonight.

Wait what? 26.29 billion people watched the 2006 World Cup? Was there a typo there?

Regardless of comparing the whole tournament to the SB final; look at the WC final vs the SB and it is 700m to 100m.  The SB is not even about the game.  How many people that they counted watching the game were actually “watching” the game.  I have been to SB parties and there are people there just to be there and either watch the commercials or the half-time show and they could care less who was playing.  That is the difference between the WC and SB and actually the difference between soccer and NFL; soccer is always about the match and it is not about the superfulous crap that is involved with the SB.  Another huge difference is the SB takes over 4 hours to complete and there is only about 15 minutes of actual playing time.  WC is only 2 hours (unless extra time and PKs which could get close to 3) and it is about the match.  You don’t watch soccer for ads or half-time shows, it is always about the beautiful game.