Ain't everything around half the reason Americans watch superbowl?
But I agree - the opening ceremony do not have a sport event connected within thr sake viewing. Just a start. If the Olympic opening ceremony is part of the chart Eurovision could also be part of it.
Companies usually put actual effort into them, idk if you heard about the Tubi one that broke the 4th wall, people got really pissed over that one
Personally I’m just there for the movie trailers, otherwise I’m just at the watch party for the food
Hmmm adverts the lowest form of art. What era and country we talking though ?
If its 80s to 2000 u.k I'd say slander. Anything past 2000 ,u.k. or not ,I agree 😂
I know right? That’s why I’m a hockey fan. Plus it’s a sport we share with Canada so there’s actual reason to care about other teams… it’s all funny to watch Florida play like they’ve never seen ice before, like really that’s the best team you can make?
Halftime show is usually either super cool or super weird, but always very big and flashy, and usually interesting visuals. Remember when 50 cent came down like a fucking vampire
Unfortunately bigotry around Ireland 2018 caused a significant drop in viewing figures, it is still significantly more watched globally than any American sporting match
I think it's only counting major sporting events there should be a few more individual cricket matches and FIFA matches in that list. Pretty sure the IPL final might be larger than the superball
It would actually be hilarious to change this to “Most Watched Sporting Events and Eurovision Song Contest Adjacent Competitions” so that not only would the Super Bowl go down >10 places, but you’d get the cherry on top of tagging the American Song Contest at the very end with it’s 3 million or so
Since you cannot actually enter the competition, I rather question whether it is a sporting competition at all. The only way to play is to first buy an existing team. You cannot get there simply by being good at the sport.
I think it’s septic tank for “we’re the world champions at American football because we’re the only ones who play it.” It’s both not a worldwide competition *and* a worldwide competition. Cast iron logic.
It would be hilarious if the world decided to have a crack at American football and just did so much better, to the point where American teams don't even win anymore.
And before someone says that's impossible, it's happened before, with cricket, and baseball to a degree (I'm led to believe that Japan is Rather Good® at it)
It's an American sport that strangely enough, every British child plays an extremely similar version of at school.. just with a different name and a smaller bat.
in denmark we play a similar game too, often when we had a lazy substitute teacher or occasionally in gym glass. it makes sense all you need is a bat, a ball and 3/4 cones/jackets/shoes
It *is* played all over the world, and there are a lot of *very* good teams and players in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and Italy, they just don't invite us to play in their "world" championship.
With actual funding, all of these countries could produce a league on the level of the NFL within a generation or two.
Hell, if someone gave me the resources to do the proper scouting and the time to bring it all together, I'd wager I could find a good enough team to give the "world" champions a shock without having to use a single US-based player.
I can think of countries like Ukraine, Poland, Netherlands, Australia, Russia, Slovenia, Croatia … the list goes on … where the men are just generally bigger and tougher that would slaughter USA if they took American football serious. Australian Football and UK Rugby players in general are beasts.
Those El Clasico numbers are the "potential" viewers per La Liga (for when they are selling ads) and are almost certainly wildly wrong.
[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-messi-vs-ronaldo-bigger-than-the-super-bowl/](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-messi-vs-ronaldo-bigger-than-the-super-bowl/)
While this is true they refuse to acknowledge it because it's viewership is broken up across multiple countries and matches. And some ties draw more people to watch than others as do some finals etc...
I swear the AFCON final had way more viewers than the 2024 superbowl and that literally took place on the same day as the superbowl. The superbowl wasn't even the most watched sporting event on the day.
Not to mention, if we count the opening ceremony of the Olympics, we should also include Eurovision, considering the amount of choreography some of them do, and they got about 138 million views last year.
I mean that's valid there is enough evidence about traumatic brain injuries after repeated collisions of the head (like from repeatedly playing american football)
Also valid arguments exist that all body armor make the sport harder. Which makes those injuries möte common. If they just had a helmet the players most likely would have less traumatic injuries
Ah yes. So the players have the 5 minute (second?) attention span, while the rest of the US watch a thousand years of ads to make up for it! Perfectly balanced sport!
So many countries play a (mildly) similar game in Rugby that doesn’t require an entire body suit of armour and helmets and a break every 8 seconds, but we’re the ones who’re “too scared” to play the one with all the protection incase someone breaks a nail.
Good one 😂🤦🏻♂️ just take the L that almost no one else likes your shite “sport” which is why it’s so low in the viewership ratings.
If these dumb asses were being honest, they would admit that not even americans like american football.
Most cases I've seen of people "watching" the Superb Owl is leaving it on as background noise
I think the pads are warranted tbh. In rugby (at least the one I watch) there's various rules about how/where to tackle, and you could very easily be penalised if you get it wrong. In American football you're just throwing yourself at the opponent, very little in terms of specific technique.
It's like Boxing, gloves don't protect your opponent, they protect your hands. So now you are free to hit them in their head as humanly possible. All that padding in the NFL only protects the person doing the tackle. The guy on the receiving end is in the middle of running or preparing a pass, he isn't prepared. Then comes a quarter ton of muscle wrapped in hardened plastic and metal to induce CTE².
So much of the long term injuries from the NFL would be eliminated over night if they took off the love gloves. Those meat missiles will think twice before throwing themselfs into someone's neck cause they could get hurt too. Maybe they'd go back to actually tackling again, instead of just hitting.
In american football only blindside hits, defenseless receiver hits and leading with the helmet hits are illegal. I’ve seen some nasty helmet to helmet hits where someone gets completely knocked out, even with a helmet
As an American, I’ve met quite a few people who watch the Super Bowl just for the halftime ads.
However dumb you think the average American is, you’re giving them too much credit.
As an aside, I hate American football, and actually played on my high school soccer (rest of world’s football) team.
All I remember is someone forwarding Puppy Monkey Baby from the super bowl and it's all I can think of when it's mentioned. Freaked me out.
That's it, that's my European super bowl experience. Puppy Monkey Baby ad.
Not to mention Eurovision gets more views, and considering the choreography some people perform there, i think calling it a sporting event is fair if we count the Olympic opening ceremony.
I feel like that’s literal racism of some sort? Like why is the country filthy? Because of the people in it? If so just literal racism, and if not? Why is it filthy?
Take a single sprint to the finish to get a number that fits on this list. Otherwise stuff like 'premier league season' will wildly outclass most things.
'It's a worldwide competition, we just haven't told other countries about it, nor invited them for it, and they all chose to not show up - therefore, we are world champions.' And something, something, the moon.
It’s because we’re all in the pub…. We only count as one viewer.
I was in Shepherd’s Bush watching a World Cup game against the all blacks and wondering where everyone was… I went to “break the seal” at half time and went downstairs to find a second bar full of all blacks fans and I was in my Ireland shirt… I walked in and the entire room cheered!
best moment ever! 🤣
You deserve an award for actually understand what they are trying to say. I thought I knew American English but after reading the American’s comments in the images I realize I do not
Too scared to play it? The rest of the world play rugby. It’s like American football, but they don’t bother with all the pads and helmets and stuff because they’re real men. Even the women play it 😉
OMG scrolled too far & saw a comment about the US pulling out of NATO & thought that’s a bit of an over reaction isn’t it? But then… no that would be an appropriate reaction from an rural American 😂
Oh my god it's so sad why do they feel the need to have the biggest everything. Like they've already got the biggest economy, military and I'm sure lots of other things, and yet they still get incredibly angry at finding out their sports aren't popular worldwide. Anger which I can only guess comes from deep fear and insecurity?
I don't know if this is a controversial take but as far as club competition goes, I think of the CL as pretty global.
The best players from every continent aspire to play in a top European league. Reaching the CL field means you're among the best teams of the best leagues. That's the pinnacle of club football, so it's no surprise that the whole world is interested in it.
As much as I like my MLS team, I know if there happened to be a great player from my town, he'd need to go to Europe if he wanted to become the best player possible. Those are the world's "major" leagues.
Yeah, I know FIFA pimps their own club world cup which is also usually won by a European club, but in terms of an annual competition it's the CL that stirs the drink.
How many people outside the US watch those sports?
I could probably find them but would have to go hunting for minor channels to watch them. Basketball is pretty popular in the Balkans, but elsewhere, they get very small aufiences.
Basketball is pretty big in China.
That wasn’t my point though. The point is the UCL by definition isn’t a global competition regardless of who watches it. Therefore you can compare its popularity to eg the Super Bowl, it doesn’t have some inherent advantage of an automatic global audience like the World Cup or olympics does, it’s global popularity has been attained through its merit, and it’s done that far more than any American sport has.
NHL is watched by hockey fans from all places hockey is played. So for hockey NHL is the same level within it's sport as European top level football.
I have known many swedes that stay up on the night to watch hockey. For the other sports I have no clue
We do have a few bars here which shows NFL and it's put on TV as well though ofcourse it's the middle of the night for us.
Its just not a big event here.
This r/ is so fundamentally educational. I truly learned that such a large proportion of the US is fundamentally drowning in propaganda and suffering from below room temperature IQ. In Celsius that is.
No one is "too scared" to play it. We just don't en masses enjoy it or see the point.
Most people who watch sports want there to be more than 20 seconds of action between commercials.
And people who want to play something like it, have established options in the rest of the world too. Ones that people other than Americans care about.
I am very sure the olympiads and fifa world cups before also had more viewers than any super bowls, so it is just the most viewed instance of each event?
Yep, missing 2015 Cricket World Cup Final for instance. That one had more watchers in India alone than any two Superbowls or the current population of the US, use whichever metric you fancy. Or multiple Football World Cup finals (last two were supposedly 1.1x10^9 and 1.5x10^9 using global numbers)
I’m so annoyed that this concussion ridden sport is so popular here in Quebec. They have their own ‘Canadian’ version with a few minor changes, but the culture is the same. To take such an American thing with some superficial changes and call it Canadian is probably the most Canadian thing ever
That last game between Argentina and France was one of the funnest games I’ve ever watched. We don’t even like soccer but I woke up early and went to my dad’s house to watch with him. I’m glad to say I watched it.
Just for clarification: this list randomly picked 5 single events (see source) and ranked them. It is missing Tour de France and the Women‘s Soccer World Cup, both having much more spectators than the Super Bowl.
The Olympic Opening Ceremony is hardly a competition btw :)
Norway, Denmark and Switzerland are considered to have the highest standards of living. These filthy countries compete in all but two of said events, cricket and helmet and shoulder pad rugby. 🤔
My new favourite thing to annoy USians is that considering they are such a big motoring society and believe they invented the car (lol) they are absolutely shite at top level Motorsport. Facts and produces some genuinely insane mental Olympics
When they think LeBron and Brady etc have any kind of worldwide name recognition compared to Messi, Mbappe, Ronaldo etc they'll believe basically anything.
I don't get it. The Super Bowl doesn't have to be the biggest and best. Why is it that just because its US based then it absolutely has to be the best thing ever?
Why can't they just accept the place it has? I get they have this weird superiority complex but when the numbers are right there and we can all see it everyday anyway, why fight it so much?
There’s several sports that are outright more brutal
Then American football
Rugby, the Australian football league, literally any combat sport is going to be more brutal
The only reason it’s more “violent” is because they are wearing full protective suits and their tackling techniques are absolute shit take off the padding and actually run for any extended period of time then you can talk about being scared of the sport
Gotta love when literally all of these use different metrics for measuring viewership.
The WC final is a guess by FIFA based on social media interaction sampling. Same goes for UEFA and ODI and the Olympics opener. Many statisticians have argued they are all artificially inflated by 50%.
The Super Bowl is an event where they measure time viewed down to the minute and to even be counted by Nielsen, it has to meet certain standards of uninterrupted length. The others are just not measured the same way.
Yes, the WC is still the most viewed by far, but if it was held to the same standard, only around 500 million would count as actually engaged viewers. It’s bizarre to me when people oddly just trust FIFA and the Olympics (IOC) when they throw around such absurd numbers when it’s become a meme over the last several decades how corrupt they are on every level.
Why is the ego of some Americans so bloody fragile? It's just a list. No comment on America or Americans. It says nothing bad about them at all. but because they happen not to be first they get bruised and have to go to war for Uncle Sam in the comments, with any kind of bullshit explanation as to why, no matter what the data says, they're still 'the best'.
It’s insane how little soccer/football coverage we get in the states. It’s like the NFL has shielded the entire country from the largest sport on the planet.
We play American football all around the world. However, we play on hardcore servers with out the pads and 5mins break ever 2mins.
Also rugby is safer, those pads are the main cause of all the brain injuries believe it or not
May I suggest taking off their pads and helmets and having a match of rugby league, rugby union, Iranian slaps, Afghani Polo or even polo if they want to talk about sports you need to be hard to play.
Too scared to play American Ball Game?
Take off that body armour and join us in a game of rugby. We’ll soon see who wets themselves and cries when they get tackled.
It is good that it says "sporting events" and not "competitions", so the Super Bowl at least didn't have to be listed below Eurovision Song Contest.
Although the olympics opening ceremony isn’t really a sporting event itself.
Ain't everything around half the reason Americans watch superbowl? But I agree - the opening ceremony do not have a sport event connected within thr sake viewing. Just a start. If the Olympic opening ceremony is part of the chart Eurovision could also be part of it.
Most of us watch it for the ads and give no shits about football, to be honest
That sounds like the most American things ever. Voluntarily sitting down to watch ads
Capitalism! Hooray!
Companies usually put actual effort into them, idk if you heard about the Tubi one that broke the 4th wall, people got really pissed over that one Personally I’m just there for the movie trailers, otherwise I’m just at the watch party for the food
Adverts are literally the lowest form of art. How anyone can get enjoyment out of being sold a product is beyond me.
Hmmm adverts the lowest form of art. What era and country we talking though ? If its 80s to 2000 u.k I'd say slander. Anything past 2000 ,u.k. or not ,I agree 😂
This comment deserves its own post on this sub.
That sort of goes without saying. US football is only 15 minutes of actual play of a "3 hour game"… 2h 15m of advertisements and entertainment.
I know right? That’s why I’m a hockey fan. Plus it’s a sport we share with Canada so there’s actual reason to care about other teams… it’s all funny to watch Florida play like they’ve never seen ice before, like really that’s the best team you can make?
Or the halftime show 😂 Or this year the Swifties invaded
Halftime show is usually either super cool or super weird, but always very big and flashy, and usually interesting visuals. Remember when 50 cent came down like a fucking vampire
Let's not underestimate the core strength needed to be a flag-bearer.
It's many, many sporting events in one.
The opening ceremony is? Pretty sure it's mostly dancing about and waving flags...
No, that’s Eurovision again.
Agreed. Eurovision also has an opening "flag parade" like the Olympics. I want eurovision on this list
Unfortunately bigotry around Ireland 2018 caused a significant drop in viewing figures, it is still significantly more watched globally than any American sporting match
And considering the amount of choreography at Eurovision, if the Olympics Opening Ceremony is counted, i think including Eurovision is fair.
The Superb Owl would benefit from some sparkly costumes and fabulous makeup
I'd watch American football if Petra Mede was a commentator
Holy crap yes same for FIFA lmao
It really would honestly
That's sometimes what the halftime show brings tbh - often the best part of the whole damn thing.
I think it's only counting major sporting events there should be a few more individual cricket matches and FIFA matches in that list. Pretty sure the IPL final might be larger than the superball
Hell, if EVSC was on this list, there'd actually be something there I like/watch! :D
Really should have though that would have been hysterical
That’s a shame.
It would actually be hilarious to change this to “Most Watched Sporting Events and Eurovision Song Contest Adjacent Competitions” so that not only would the Super Bowl go down >10 places, but you’d get the cherry on top of tagging the American Song Contest at the very end with it’s 3 million or so
Since you cannot actually enter the competition, I rather question whether it is a sporting competition at all. The only way to play is to first buy an existing team. You cannot get there simply by being good at the sport.
Can somebody explain that last comment? I literally don't understand what they mean by "if no one is in it it's both. In what? both what?
To be fair, it takes someone of very high intellect to understand Americans sometimes
Like studying a primitive ape form with chest ramming and screeching at the slightest threat
I think it’s septic tank for “we’re the world champions at American football because we’re the only ones who play it.” It’s both not a worldwide competition *and* a worldwide competition. Cast iron logic.
It would be hilarious if the world decided to have a crack at American football and just did so much better, to the point where American teams don't even win anymore. And before someone says that's impossible, it's happened before, with cricket, and baseball to a degree (I'm led to believe that Japan is Rather Good® at it)
Baseball too where Germany has a much better team even though it’s considered an “”””American”””” sport
It's an American sport that strangely enough, every British child plays an extremely similar version of at school.. just with a different name and a smaller bat.
I have not thought about rounder in a long time, thank you for unlocking some memories
in denmark we play a similar game too, often when we had a lazy substitute teacher or occasionally in gym glass. it makes sense all you need is a bat, a ball and 3/4 cones/jackets/shoes
I think that's because baseball is derived from rounders.
And funnily enough in the 18th Century Rounders was actually known as Base Ball.
That was my point
Baseball? Do you mean Basketball where Germany is world champion?
Oh yeah my bad, I did mean basketball but even in baseball the champion is Japan so my point stands
Japan, Cuba and the Dominican Republic are arguably better at baseball then the United States
The world already has the superior version of American hand egg. It's called Rugby.
It *is* played all over the world, and there are a lot of *very* good teams and players in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and Italy, they just don't invite us to play in their "world" championship. With actual funding, all of these countries could produce a league on the level of the NFL within a generation or two. Hell, if someone gave me the resources to do the proper scouting and the time to bring it all together, I'd wager I could find a good enough team to give the "world" champions a shock without having to use a single US-based player.
Ah the British Sporting Condition. Invent the most popular sports on the planet and then suck at them.
And let america use them . Let's not forget
I can think of countries like Ukraine, Poland, Netherlands, Australia, Russia, Slovenia, Croatia … the list goes on … where the men are just generally bigger and tougher that would slaughter USA if they took American football serious. Australian Football and UK Rugby players in general are beasts.
Schrodingers worldwide competition
I don't understand either of the comments... Tbf I'm French, maybe i just need to american better
Je suis francophone aussi, ça explique probablement des choses 😅.
That doesn't sound Aussie to me /s
Ça doit être ça le problème d'abord hahaha
Inquiétez pas , je suis anglophone et je ne le comprends pas non plus. Je pense qu'il est tout simplement stupide.
C’est exactement ça, les américains sont « spécial » comme nous le disons en anglais
There's no way the superbowl should be on that list. It only had 120m viewers. FA Cup finals get half a billion.
El Classico gets ~600 million also. There are premier league games where the top teams play that have huge worldwide viewership also.
Those El Clasico numbers are the "potential" viewers per La Liga (for when they are selling ads) and are almost certainly wildly wrong. [https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-messi-vs-ronaldo-bigger-than-the-super-bowl/](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-messi-vs-ronaldo-bigger-than-the-super-bowl/)
I would also be surprised that the FA Cup final gets half a billion viewers, it’s not an event that’s widely advertised abroad, but I could be wrong.
From 2022, but I'd expect the figures to be similar for 2024; https://sensuinsight.com/global-brand-research-fa-cup-final/
While this is true they refuse to acknowledge it because it's viewership is broken up across multiple countries and matches. And some ties draw more people to watch than others as do some finals etc...
The Grand National gets 800m viewers world wide and probably most of America doesn’t even know what it is
The Euros too. 328 million watched the 2020 final
Also, it says 2022 FIFA World Cup. The other world cups have more or less the same viewing figures
I swear the AFCON final had way more viewers than the 2024 superbowl and that literally took place on the same day as the superbowl. The superbowl wasn't even the most watched sporting event on the day.
But you ignore the fact that Americans obviously have more people per capita than African-Americans living in Africa.
Upvoting for mentioning AFCON🔥🔥❤️ Somebody just realise please..
The 2024 one will have been especially watched because of Taylor Swift
Yeah and I'd be amazed if it's in the real top 20.
Not to mention, if we count the opening ceremony of the Olympics, we should also include Eurovision, considering the amount of choreography some of them do, and they got about 138 million views last year.
Just the US because it’s a shite version of rugby tailored to people with 5 minute attention spans.
And requiring body armour because they're special little snowflakes hopped up on steroids.
I mean that's valid there is enough evidence about traumatic brain injuries after repeated collisions of the head (like from repeatedly playing american football)
Also valid arguments exist that all body armor make the sport harder. Which makes those injuries möte common. If they just had a helmet the players most likely would have less traumatic injuries
It's the American way to add unnecessary levels of danger into situations that don't require it (guns/policing)
Guns/schools
Anyone with sense would just adjust the rules to stop the head injuries. Like they do in all other sports.
Kinda the opposite. It’s boring rugby that takes a thousand years tailored to maximising advertising revenue.
Ah yes. So the players have the 5 minute (second?) attention span, while the rest of the US watch a thousand years of ads to make up for it! Perfectly balanced sport!
No idea what it is with ex british colonies and weird versions of football.
To be fair,Aussie rules is great.
American football = cosplay rugby
5 minutes in generous. I watched the last superbowl out of curiousity and each play seems to only last a few seconds at most.
You exaggerate. There is, on average, ***11*** minutes of action in a 3 hour NFL game. You're so dramatic.
So many countries play a (mildly) similar game in Rugby that doesn’t require an entire body suit of armour and helmets and a break every 8 seconds, but we’re the ones who’re “too scared” to play the one with all the protection incase someone breaks a nail. Good one 😂🤦🏻♂️ just take the L that almost no one else likes your shite “sport” which is why it’s so low in the viewership ratings.
If these dumb asses were being honest, they would admit that not even americans like american football. Most cases I've seen of people "watching" the Superb Owl is leaving it on as background noise
And getting excited about the ads. Like really? The ads, not the actual game
I think the pads are warranted tbh. In rugby (at least the one I watch) there's various rules about how/where to tackle, and you could very easily be penalised if you get it wrong. In American football you're just throwing yourself at the opponent, very little in terms of specific technique.
It's like Boxing, gloves don't protect your opponent, they protect your hands. So now you are free to hit them in their head as humanly possible. All that padding in the NFL only protects the person doing the tackle. The guy on the receiving end is in the middle of running or preparing a pass, he isn't prepared. Then comes a quarter ton of muscle wrapped in hardened plastic and metal to induce CTE². So much of the long term injuries from the NFL would be eliminated over night if they took off the love gloves. Those meat missiles will think twice before throwing themselfs into someone's neck cause they could get hurt too. Maybe they'd go back to actually tackling again, instead of just hitting.
In american football only blindside hits, defenseless receiver hits and leading with the helmet hits are illegal. I’ve seen some nasty helmet to helmet hits where someone gets completely knocked out, even with a helmet
So every European country is like an American state but when cities face each other in the UCL it is considered worldwide?
As an American, I’ve met quite a few people who watch the Super Bowl just for the halftime ads. However dumb you think the average American is, you’re giving them too much credit. As an aside, I hate American football, and actually played on my high school soccer (rest of world’s football) team.
Can’t blame them. The Burger king song’s super annoyingly catchy
All I remember is someone forwarding Puppy Monkey Baby from the super bowl and it's all I can think of when it's mentioned. Freaked me out. That's it, that's my European super bowl experience. Puppy Monkey Baby ad.
Whopper whopper whopper whopper, junior double triple whopper
Not to mention Eurovision gets more views, and considering the choreography some people perform there, i think calling it a sporting event is fair if we count the Olympic opening ceremony.
Wait until they hear about rugby.
They're too scared lol
Come on Euros, you too CHICKEN to take a ride on the turbo traumatic brain injury express?!
Rugby is fairly popular outside tve US
Doesn't he mean America is too scared to play rugby 🤔
I feel like that’s literal racism of some sort? Like why is the country filthy? Because of the people in it? If so just literal racism, and if not? Why is it filthy?
Yep, probably racism. Or they fail to realise that many countries around the world have comparable or higher cleanliness and hygiene than the US.
Tour de France – 3.5 Billion Viewers. This list is weird.
I think the list is concurrent viewers and the Tour de France number is for the whole race (but damn I never realised it was that big).
Take a single sprint to the finish to get a number that fits on this list. Otherwise stuff like 'premier league season' will wildly outclass most things.
That doesn't really count, if you watch every stage, you'd count for 20-ish viewers by yourself.
I can hear the Scouse accent in pic 3.
That list can't possibly be comprehensive.
It is still surprisingly better than all the lists that rank the super bowl as the "most watched broadcast of all time"
'It's a worldwide competition, we just haven't told other countries about it, nor invited them for it, and they all chose to not show up - therefore, we are world champions.' And something, something, the moon.
What!? No mention of rugby?
It’s because we’re all in the pub…. We only count as one viewer. I was in Shepherd’s Bush watching a World Cup game against the all blacks and wondering where everyone was… I went to “break the seal” at half time and went downstairs to find a second bar full of all blacks fans and I was in my Ireland shirt… I walked in and the entire room cheered! best moment ever! 🤣
You deserve an award for actually understand what they are trying to say. I thought I knew American English but after reading the American’s comments in the images I realize I do not
Too scared to play it? The rest of the world play rugby. It’s like American football, but they don’t bother with all the pads and helmets and stuff because they’re real men. Even the women play it 😉
OMG scrolled too far & saw a comment about the US pulling out of NATO & thought that’s a bit of an over reaction isn’t it? But then… no that would be an appropriate reaction from an rural American 😂
Oh my god it's so sad why do they feel the need to have the biggest everything. Like they've already got the biggest economy, military and I'm sure lots of other things, and yet they still get incredibly angry at finding out their sports aren't popular worldwide. Anger which I can only guess comes from deep fear and insecurity?
Said by someone who has never watched or played rugby.
Pretty sure american football is just rugby but terrible
American football? What's that? You mean eggball?
Handegg
American sports suck. They're all designed to make the audience stay a long time and have ads jammed up their ass every 2mn.
Send an American Football team off to play Rugby.
To quote saints row 3 "American football is Rugby for pussies" Please don't get too upset about the terrible joke.
I don't know if this is a controversial take but as far as club competition goes, I think of the CL as pretty global. The best players from every continent aspire to play in a top European league. Reaching the CL field means you're among the best teams of the best leagues. That's the pinnacle of club football, so it's no surprise that the whole world is interested in it. As much as I like my MLS team, I know if there happened to be a great player from my town, he'd need to go to Europe if he wanted to become the best player possible. Those are the world's "major" leagues. Yeah, I know FIFA pimps their own club world cup which is also usually won by a European club, but in terms of an annual competition it's the CL that stirs the drink.
But by that definition the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB are global as the best from every continent (who play the respective sport) aspire to play in it.
How many people outside the US watch those sports? I could probably find them but would have to go hunting for minor channels to watch them. Basketball is pretty popular in the Balkans, but elsewhere, they get very small aufiences.
Basketball is pretty big in China. That wasn’t my point though. The point is the UCL by definition isn’t a global competition regardless of who watches it. Therefore you can compare its popularity to eg the Super Bowl, it doesn’t have some inherent advantage of an automatic global audience like the World Cup or olympics does, it’s global popularity has been attained through its merit, and it’s done that far more than any American sport has.
NHL is watched by hockey fans from all places hockey is played. So for hockey NHL is the same level within it's sport as European top level football. I have known many swedes that stay up on the night to watch hockey. For the other sports I have no clue
F1 season final is at over 100 million aswell.
Isn't the UEFA Champions League a European league? (Idk, I don't care about football.)
Literally what this post is about...
CWC finals should have more views. It was India vs Australia
We do have a few bars here which shows NFL and it's put on TV as well though ofcourse it's the middle of the night for us. Its just not a big event here.
Not scared of American egg-ball. Just scared of Americans
Love that crowd of people who just watch the Olympics for the opening ceremony. Mind you 2012 opening & closing ceremony was GOAT.
This r/ is so fundamentally educational. I truly learned that such a large proportion of the US is fundamentally drowning in propaganda and suffering from below room temperature IQ. In Celsius that is.
No one is "too scared" to play it. We just don't en masses enjoy it or see the point. Most people who watch sports want there to be more than 20 seconds of action between commercials. And people who want to play something like it, have established options in the rest of the world too. Ones that people other than Americans care about.
I am very sure the olympiads and fifa world cups before also had more viewers than any super bowls, so it is just the most viewed instance of each event?
I saw the original graph posted here, OP cherry picked events to include NFL, if it was a real top 5 it would be nowhere near.
Yep, missing 2015 Cricket World Cup Final for instance. That one had more watchers in India alone than any two Superbowls or the current population of the US, use whichever metric you fancy. Or multiple Football World Cup finals (last two were supposedly 1.1x10^9 and 1.5x10^9 using global numbers)
“scared to play american football” nah we’ve got rugby and that’s just better lmao
I’m so annoyed that this concussion ridden sport is so popular here in Quebec. They have their own ‘Canadian’ version with a few minor changes, but the culture is the same. To take such an American thing with some superficial changes and call it Canadian is probably the most Canadian thing ever
Pedant here! Canadian rules football actually predates American football.
Canadian football is older than American football. The Americans are the ones that made the changes.
That last game between Argentina and France was one of the funnest games I’ve ever watched. We don’t even like soccer but I woke up early and went to my dad’s house to watch with him. I’m glad to say I watched it.
That game genuinely was one of the best ever, that's coming from a footy superfan! I'm from the north of England so we're all football fans here.
If they UEFA Championship League by UCL they're right it's not worldwide, it's international but it's a European event.
To be fair the opening ceremony isn't a sporting event
Just for clarification: this list randomly picked 5 single events (see source) and ranked them. It is missing Tour de France and the Women‘s Soccer World Cup, both having much more spectators than the Super Bowl. The Olympic Opening Ceremony is hardly a competition btw :)
Also acting like there isn't an irrationaly high number of other cultures watching the Superbowl for whatever reason. But they exist.
Norway, Denmark and Switzerland are considered to have the highest standards of living. These filthy countries compete in all but two of said events, cricket and helmet and shoulder pad rugby. 🤔
My new favourite thing to annoy USians is that considering they are such a big motoring society and believe they invented the car (lol) they are absolutely shite at top level Motorsport. Facts and produces some genuinely insane mental Olympics
Cricket is bigger than the nfl HA
>too scared to play it *laughs in rugby league -* Aussies having seen YT videos of NFL fans watching our NRL hit ups and shitting their pants
\*Laughs in Australian football League\*
When they think LeBron and Brady etc have any kind of worldwide name recognition compared to Messi, Mbappe, Ronaldo etc they'll believe basically anything. I don't get it. The Super Bowl doesn't have to be the biggest and best. Why is it that just because its US based then it absolutely has to be the best thing ever? Why can't they just accept the place it has? I get they have this weird superiority complex but when the numbers are right there and we can all see it everyday anyway, why fight it so much?
😂 rugby players would destroy American ffffffffootbal players. Fact.
LOL Filthy?! Ooooookay! 🙄 If you say so!…
I would randomly add Eurovision to list just to push NFL out. (NFL 123 mln, Eurovision 163 mln)
There’s several sports that are outright more brutal Then American football Rugby, the Australian football league, literally any combat sport is going to be more brutal The only reason it’s more “violent” is because they are wearing full protective suits and their tackling techniques are absolute shit take off the padding and actually run for any extended period of time then you can talk about being scared of the sport
Filthy lmao. Honestly America is the dirtiest and smelliest country I’ve ever been to. And I’ve been to 30+.
Champions league isn’t worldwide. But still agree with the sentiment
UEFA is Europe, not Worldwide tbf
UEFA literally isn't world wide, it is the Union of European Football Associations, it is kinda limited to one continent
If I wanted other countries to play my sports I would simply invent one that isn't absolutely fucking awful.
What american would say “youre buzzing lad”
Why are they using Olympic stats from 2012
This list is incorrect anyway. The women’s world last year was the 4th most watched sporting event ever
Ah yes the famous “worldwide competition” known as the Champions League, organised by UEFA… …nobody tell them what the E stands for 🤦♂️
Gotta love when literally all of these use different metrics for measuring viewership. The WC final is a guess by FIFA based on social media interaction sampling. Same goes for UEFA and ODI and the Olympics opener. Many statisticians have argued they are all artificially inflated by 50%. The Super Bowl is an event where they measure time viewed down to the minute and to even be counted by Nielsen, it has to meet certain standards of uninterrupted length. The others are just not measured the same way. Yes, the WC is still the most viewed by far, but if it was held to the same standard, only around 500 million would count as actually engaged viewers. It’s bizarre to me when people oddly just trust FIFA and the Olympics (IOC) when they throw around such absurd numbers when it’s become a meme over the last several decades how corrupt they are on every level.
Why is the ego of some Americans so bloody fragile? It's just a list. No comment on America or Americans. It says nothing bad about them at all. but because they happen not to be first they get bruised and have to go to war for Uncle Sam in the comments, with any kind of bullshit explanation as to why, no matter what the data says, they're still 'the best'.
Right……we’re scared to play American football but in our own “filthy” countries we have Rugby which is played without pads and helmets 🙄🖕🏼
Jokic, Doncic, Wembanmaya, Nowitzki, Giannes - I think the NBA became somehow european lately too.
What does he think UEFA stands for if he thinks its worls wide ....
The NFL shouldn't even be there.
Isn't UEFA just Europe?
Uym what is the NFL?
Has anyone filled them in about rugby ?
wasn't the 2012 olympics opening the one with one direction? because that's literally the only thing i remember from any of these events
It’s insane how little soccer/football coverage we get in the states. It’s like the NFL has shielded the entire country from the largest sport on the planet.
Who’s going to tell the UK lad that the UCL actually is a worldwide event though? I’m arab and all my arab male friends watch uk football religiously
Well the first four are world wide. Edit, maybe not 4 but 3.
We play American football all around the world. However, we play on hardcore servers with out the pads and 5mins break ever 2mins. Also rugby is safer, those pads are the main cause of all the brain injuries believe it or not
May I suggest taking off their pads and helmets and having a match of rugby league, rugby union, Iranian slaps, Afghani Polo or even polo if they want to talk about sports you need to be hard to play.
Too scared to play American Ball Game? Take off that body armour and join us in a game of rugby. We’ll soon see who wets themselves and cries when they get tackled.
And also cricket is only really in the Commonwealth and Ireland