Fellow American sports fans; Would you rather attend the World Cup or the Superbowl?
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World Cup.\n\nThis is the most watched sporting event in the world and soccer is the greatest sport in the world.  It has been proven to be the most competitive sport.  Please read the article from Boston University entitled "What is less than super about the Super Bowl?"  Which shows American Football to have the least competitive games of all of the major sports!  \n\nBelow is a copy of the article and a link to the page.\n\n\nWhat is less than super about the Super Bowl\nStatistics show that when it comes to competition, football loses\nBy Chris Berdik\n \nGraphic by Kim Han\n \nGot any plans for Sunday, say around 6 p.m.? Chances are pretty good that along with about 90 million Americans, you will be watching Super Bowl XL, between the Seattle Seahawks and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Super Bowl is perennially one of American television’s biggest draws, this year fetching ABC a record $2.5 million for every 30 seconds of advertising. What explains such massive allure? According to a study by Sidney Redner, a College of Arts and Sciences physics professor, it’s probably not the competition.  \n\nRedner and colleagues Federico Vazquez, a GRS physics grad student, and researcher Eli Ben-Naim of the Los Alamos National Laboratory crunched a century’s worth of numbers, more than 300,000 games from the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, and the English Premier League (soccer), to determine the relative competitiveness of each sport. The researchers based the notion of competitiveness on the probability of an upset victory by the team with a lesser record of wins and losses. And when it comes to this measure of competitiveness, it turns out, the NFL comes up a loser, with a 36.4 percent chance of an upset in any given game. Soccer was the most competitive sport, with the underdog pulling off a victory 45.2 percent of the time. \n\n\nRedner, a statistical and theoretical physicist, often studies complex systems outside of mainstream physics. In this case, he and his colleagues were using sports statistics to test a model they developed to approximate competition in another complex system: society, specifically social stratification. Put simply, if class structure could be thought of as the result of millions of competitions between individuals, then adjusting the frequency and upset probability of these competitions would result in more or less egalitarian societies.  \n\n“We were not driven by sports questions; we were driven entirely by statistics,” Redner says. Indeed, sports holds little interest for Redner except as a source of statistics and as the occasional metaphor. “This sports study was sort of an off-the-wall project of something that was already out in left field,” he explains.  \n\nBut this is the Super Bowl we’re talking about, not some run-of-the-mill Sunday gridiron matchup. Surely that should ratchet up the competitiveness, right? Well, not exactly. Statistics remind us that there have been only 11 upsets in Super Bowl history, meaning the big game defies the oddsmakers only 28 percent of the time. \n\nYeah, well, you can bet the Rolling Stones won’t be performing at any World Cup halftime shows.        \n\n\n\nhttp://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=37743&template=7
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Out of those two I would choose football.
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I think each sport has its own attractions & fans. We can't say which is better...All are good and exciting_Good Luck
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I have watched every single minute bar some bathroom breaks of the World Cup so far plus highlight shows, listening to radio talk shows and reading about it in newspapers and online.\n\nTo me the World Cup is something so special plus it happens once every four years. It is not just the actual soccer match that interests me it is the whole carnival atmosphere throughout Germany. As the tournament progresses that atmosphere is not as good and the football becomes more important. For the best part was being in Germany before the tournament started and seeing all the fans from all 32 countries having a great time, hoping their team can do well. Even now some teams are out and their fans are disappointed and their third game does not mean as much. I will be going back out to Germany for the quarter finals to whichever town England will be playing in.\n\nIt does depend on how much you like Football and your knowledge and understanding of it to decide how much you can watch. For most Americans i guess it comes down the list after the 4 big North American sports but to us over here is England a lot of people will watch every game they can and watch it live to see how the match pans out, the tactics, the way the teams feel each other out, the way they react to the events that happen. I know for you guys in the States the time difference does not help you so having a TiVo really helps you out. Glad to see that a lot more Americans are really taking an interest in the World Cup. I would like to see team USA get through to the next stage.
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Football... Its more active and its a long game and american football is has shorter games i'm from england, I build muscule by playing football european ppl r fit cause they play football. American ppl play american football but they r still fat!
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This past year would have been an exception for me. I would have loved to see the Texas-USC game much more than the Seattle-Pittsburgh game. The Rose Bowl was much more exciting than the Super Bowl. I think that was a pretty boring Super Bowl. In any other year, I would have wanted to see the Super Bowl more than the College Football National Championship.
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The FIFA World Cup (Federation Internationale de Football Association) is basically the Super Bowl of soccer. Teams from all over the world travel to compete in competitions to see who is the best. Tickets are very valuable and in high demand. This year the World Cup is being held in various locations throughout Germany. Good Luck... =)
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IF I HAVE ENOUGH MONEY..BUT I DONT WANT TO WATCH WOLRD CUP, THE TRUTH IS I WANT TO WATCH WORLD CUP..thee..hee
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They are both great, but baseball is just too time consuming!!! Its just too much work. So I have to give football the edge. You have more time to reserch and plan and if you go on vacation you will not fall to the basement in the standings.
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A game agaisnt america will be better cause ot only the final is at stake but also theyre rivalry which will make it a more interesting game to watch but if they can face them in the finals even better it will make everybody happy seeing these 2 teams there. if i want to see a great game in the semis i would go for america but it will be even better to see it in the finals..
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i think NFL. if not that then nascar. i heard more americans now watch nascar than basketball or baseball.
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It's certainly cool here in England (we call it football)and it is the world's most popular sport. Look out for the Football World Cup starting in Germany this June. The US have qualified and will have done well if they get to the knock out stages. The first games are on a 4 team, league basis with 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and none for a loss. They play each other once, 3 games in total. The top 2 teams in each group qualify for the next rounds where it becomes a straightforward knockout in each match. Win - and you advance towards the final. It is a hell of a lot bigger than the Olympics, although most Americans do not know of it's existence. Get your kids playing on to an adult level. With your population you should be worldbeaters - but you are nowhere near it. Catch the World Cup on TV if you can. The atmosphere will be phenomenal!
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for college and highschool games,Football at the way. For professional sports, i like both but if i HAD to choose, i would say basketball, cause during timeouts and halftime, they entertain the hell outta you.
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American football is the most popular spectator sport in the United States :).
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I go with Australia. We showed with a successful 2000 Olympics we are extremely capable of hosting world class sporting events and the venues left from the Olympics could be easily upgraded to the standard of world class stadiums. We are friendly people on the whole and would welcome everyone. That would be fantasic for us fans as being so far away from the rest of the world we don't get to see the best of the best play live. Australian's would love the opportunity to learn and grow from an experience like that.
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Soccer is better when you are playing it - football is more entertaining to watch.
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yeh great game,and i was very impressed with the spirit and the americans showed against a so-called "world class football team".good on you,you should be proud best of luck.\np.s. i'm not american either