Register a free account today to become a member of the world's largest Rugby League discussion forum! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
And yet people estimate that the US spends more money on sports than the rest of the world combined.
Considering that the tournament will take place during American football season I wouldn't anticipate much coverage of the US team in the American media, maybe a few small stories here and there at the most. The sports sections of American papers will be loaded with football coverage then just like they are every fall.
Well, the rugby union world cup final was broadcast on Sunday into every home with a TV set in the United States and Canada. The game was shown in the middle of the afternoon on the west coast and would have ended just before prime time in the east. As everybody knows, Sunday is pro football day in the States, but that didn't stop NBC from showing New Zealand and France. If the Americans can advance beyond the group stage in 2013 and rugby league folks in the states can get their act together, the sky it the limit.
I had no idea NBC had taken the plunge on the RU world cup, I wonder what kind of ratings it got being up against the 4 PM Eastern NFL games on CBS and Fox. Just maybe the low-scoring RU borefest and fumble-a-thon could be a door opener for RL in the US.
Read the thread back, it was always positive until you threw your little tantrum. I appreciate that you may have connections to the current AMNRL setup or whatever, and I also appreciate all the work that has taken place by those people and others to get to this point. I just don't want to see it all go to waste over a couple of petty disputes. And I think the same applies for everyone on here.
I've never seen you do a positive post, and that's yet again a negative one.
I don't know if you are confusing me with someone else or if your judgment is clouded in some way, but if you are unable to see things rationally and have a reasonable discussion without flipping out and behaving like a three year old then maybe you should take a break from the forum.
I agree with you on your last point. I watched a number of the RUWC games, all of them on TSN in Canada, except as I noted for Sunday's final. All of the games were in high defininition, and I must say, the picture quality was the best I have ever seen. I don't know if the cameras were state-of-the-art but I have not seen better quality, and as I type this I'm watching the World Series. And give the union guys their due, the stadiums looked great, the playing surfaces looked great and the atmosphere was electric for every game I saw. They did a great job, here's hoping the RLIF can do the same. They would do well to learn from the New Zealand games, because if they can emulate that presentation package they will wake up a lot of American sports fans. As an aside, I believe there is a method to NBC's madness in showing this game - with rugby 7's admission to the London Olympics there has been a bit of a resurgence in the union game. NBC also telecast the Las Vegas 7's this summer. I think the RUWC final was a continuation of NBC's pre-Olympic hype.
2016 Olympics is when the 7's are in. Interesting that NBC showed the finbal on FTA.......I wonder how it rated?
