Sports in Canadian culture - Page 145

Darkoshvilli · #1 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 4:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by FrankieFlowerpot

Depends on whether or not the Dodgers make the playoffs.

Yup. Even then it would be a tie at 56k.

Darkoshvilli · #2 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 2:49 AM**

RDS numbers aren't included^..or was it TVA? Either way..

SaskScraper · #3 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 3:09 AM**

well..
probably time to pull out the cross country poll of league support again..
MLS soccer & NBA basketball are at the bottom.. no surprises.. lets move on..

NHL is at the top, except for Saskatchewan of course, where the NFL is almost as popular as NHL ..

Xelebes · #4 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 3:40 AM**

Interest in sport:

BC: 114
AB: 91
SK: 146
MB: 135
ON: 126
PQ: 95
ATL: 100

Alberta has the lowest. Hm.

eemy · #5 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 11:55 AM**

It makes sense to me that the leagues that have more of their support amongst people under 30 would show lower tv ratings as there is a very clear trend for that cohort not to have access to regular television at all.

There also appears to be a general trend of less interest in professional and organized sports amongst younger generations. I know in my case, there is very little interest in professional sport amongst my peers. People might go to a game on the rare occasion, but it's not as fans so much as consumers seeking entertainment. They might just as likely go watch a musical or go to the beach or something else entirely. The sports my peers are involved in skew very strongly toward individual sports (with the odd exception of ultimate), but I suspect that's more a peculiarity of my own interests skewing in that direction and therefore my group of peers reflecting that.

Acajack · #6 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 12:59 PM**

TV ratings can vary from game to game but ratings in French for non playoff games are generally like this:

Habs: 700k to 1M
Alouettes: 150k to 250k
Impact: 100-150 k

christmas · #7 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 5:57 PM**

Quebec City offers to share 2026 Olympics with Calgary and Vancouver

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...-and-vancouver

esquire · #8 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 6:52 PM**

^ Cross-country Olympics sounds kind of weird... if we can't/won't pay for the IOC mandated facilities, why not just let some other sucker host the games? I'd much rather see $10B or $25B or whatever the games would cost dumped into amateur sports programs and facilities... you can do that without lining the IOC's pockets in the process.

mistercorporate · #9 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 9:51 PM**

55,000 attendance at today's Canadian Mens soccer game years in the making:

http://www.wakingthered.com/2016/3/2...ualifiers-2016

"By the time all is said and done they could set the record for biggest crowd at a Canadian national team game, ever, in any sport."

Oilkountry · #10 Posted **Mar 26, 2016, 9:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by mistercorporate

55,000 attendance at today's Canadian Mens soccer game years in the making:

http://www.wakingthered.com/2016/3/2...ualifiers-2016

"By the time all is said and done they could set the record for biggest crowd at a Canadian national team game, ever, in any sport."

Im hearing over 60% Mexican supporters. Also the world is laughing at Canadian soccer supporters because our "soccer song battle cry thing" is literally "who ha canada who ha canada". Twitter is having a hay day with this. And to make things worse Snapchat made a global story about this game. Honestly this whole "OVER HERE!! OVER HERE!! LOOK AT US EUROPE!!" Thing that Canadian soccer fans are doing is sort of pathetic

mistercorporate · #11 Posted **Mar 26, 2016, 2:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Oilkountry

Im hearing over 60% Mexican supporters. Also the world is laughing at Canadian soccer supporters because our "soccer song battle cry thing" is literally "who ha canada who ha canada". Twitter is having a hay day with this. And to make things worse Snapchat made a global story about this game. Honestly this whole "OVER HERE!! OVER HERE!! LOOK AT US EUROPE!!" Thing that Canadian soccer fans are doing is sort of pathetic

I saw the game, the crowd was overwhelmingly wearing red, id say your sources are full of BS.

Darkoshvilli · #12 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 10:05 PM**

Too bad the Canadian mens side is shit.

elly63 · #13 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 11:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Darkoshvilli

Too bad the Canadian mens side is shit.

Too bad your "knowledge" is shit.

Darkoshvilli · #14 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 11:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by elly63

Too bad your "knowledge" is shit.

Oh, they're not? Thats news to me.

elly63 · #15 Posted **Mar 25, 2016, 11:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Darkoshvilli

Oh, they're not? Thats news to me.

Apparently it is because you obviously haven't been following them which is no surprise to me because I see stupid uninformed shit like you just posted all the time.

But I guess we'll find out tonight when they play the number 12 ELO rated Mexico.

Darkoshvilli · #16 Posted **Mar 26, 2016, 2:06 AM**

Sorry I hurt your feelings but on the world stage we're embarrassingly bad.

rousseau · #17 Posted **Mar 26, 2016, 2:17 AM**

Out of curiosity, I just googled the ranking for the Canadian men's national football team.

"Current FIFA world ranking: 87"

http://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranki...men/index.html

The obvious conclusion if you're not delusional: we suck at football.

There, was that so hard?

Darkoshvilli · #18 Posted **Mar 26, 2016, 2:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by rousseau

Out of curiosity, I just googled the ranking for the Canadian men's national football team.

"Current FIFA world ranking: 87"

http://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranki...men/index.html

The obvious conclusion if you're not delusional: we suck at football.

There, was that so hard?

Im actually surprised we're in the top 100.

mistercorporate · #19 Posted **Mar 26, 2016, 3:02 AM**

We definitely suck but were steadily getting better and our form has improved markedly under Floro. That being said, Mexico is one of the worlds best teams so not expecting much from this game. Our attacking players are not so bad but our defence is atrocious and the formation Floro is using seems bizzare.

elly63 · #20 Posted **Mar 26, 2016, 4:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by rousseau

Out of curiosity, I just googled the ranking for the Canadian men's national football team.

"Current FIFA world ranking: 87" The obvious conclusion if you're not delusional: we suck at football.

Ok, so now that you're our resident expert, when we play equally (this past year) with World Cup sides like Colombia, Ghana, US and Honduras and are competitive does that mean we suck?

We're ranked 26th in basketball (with less countries ranked than soccer) behind countries like Iran, Dominican Republic and Tunisia does that mean we suck at basketball?

What sucks is your guy's simplistic generalized comments based on ancient history without any recent input and your blind arrow shot actually hit the target tonight.