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Originally Posted by Flyin Ryan
You said "stick and ball". You didn't say "football only".
Daytona 500: 7.7 rating/16 share - 13.3 million viewers
http://jayski.com/pages/tvratings2010.htm
NASCAR for the season skimming through Jayski's list is averaging in the 4s I'd guess.
Indianapolis 500: 3.68 rating - 5.8 million viewers
http://www.ibj.com/the-score/2010/06...AMS/post/20274
From Wikipedia article on NBA Nielsen ratings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...ielsen_ratings
They do great in the Finals, this past time they got an 10.6. But you said "touch stick and ball", and by my definition a random race getting double the rating of a random basketball game counts as touching and going past. Baseball in ratings is pretty similar to the NBA, and unless we're in Canada where it's far and away #1, I wouldn't mention hockey if I were you.
So you've been proven wrong with actual data. Anyone else have any logical fallacies they want to be cleaned up on? |
You heard it here folks, the Indy 500 and Daytona 500 are random races. You gotta be kidding me. NASCAR is the only thing that can touch stick and ball because it's adopted stick and ball philosophy. I bet all of you would love it if all then ALMS races took place in rovals, and they added a postseason.
Colin Cowherd made a great point yesterday(and incredibly relevant to this convo I might add.) The average American sports fan does not like nuance. They don't want to have to figure out why such and such is exciting. Expanding on that point, a guy on another forum made a great point. You can't see the expression on a driver's face when he goes through the Corkscrew, or the Kink, or down the final corner at Road Atlanta. Drivers, to the outside viewer, are faceless, and because you can't see the expression when they're on it, to the untrained eye, it looks as if anyone could do it. There's too many nuances, especially(!!!) in sportscar racing.