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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Can only speak for England but football has a massive cultural footprint here although mainly through newspapers and a general media awareness. There's actually not much of it on regular tv though. For anything but big tournament matches you need a sky satellite package.
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That is very interesting. That is how the NFL and particularly the NBA operates, its part of the national psyche, it sneaks into national broadcasts like TV news and newspapers, even people who don't follow basketball know who several of the biggest names are in the NBA and can recognize their faces. With NFL football people know about the biggest teams and their recent big games or big losses.
However, this is also in part because again, there are national games broadcasted
every week. It surprises me that its not the case in the UK with futbol... There USED to even be all the road Laker games on over-the-air TV until two years ago, it was a Los Angeles staple, whenever there was a Laker road game you could walk into any corner store, restaurant, laundry mat, office waiting room, and see the game on. Its kind of how it became part of LA culture.. Its like that in the major markets across the country. With the NFL there are 4 over-the-air broadcast games on national TV every week, but mostly on Sunday. Also, on Saturdays ABC airs something from ESPN, be it golf, or X-Games, or futbol if there is a good match (they've been experimenting with some English Premier League games on Saturday mornings on ABC)... In other words.. sports aren't just restricted to a cable package, they are part and parcel of American TV..
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in the case of F1 (which is actually my fave sport of all), Lewis Hamilton - even if they've never actually watched them.
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I didn't you know you fancied auto-racing. Very interesting..