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Originally Posted by loochy
There are a lot of bandwagoners, which annoys me as well. People are running around quoting things that they heard on the broadcast (which sometimes are actually wrong).
However, you've probably never seen anyone watch a match because, as I stated earlier, the good euro leagues play their games in the afternoon and evening, which translates to early morning here. Therefore, these matches are almost never shown at places like bars here in the U.S. I get up and watch most Fulham games on Saturday or Sunday mornings via an internet stream. I then wait around for the Real Madrid games, wich usually start anywhere from noon to 2 p.m. (the league in Spain starts later).
I never really bother discussing these games with non soccer fans because, well, why waste my time? Personally, I usually assume people aren't interested so I don't really talk about it. If someone mentions something about my hat (I usually wear my Inter or RM hat), then I get a conversation going. If they can't recognize the logo on my hat, I know they don't care and I don't bother.
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now this makes more sense... time zone differences... that would explain some of the "never watch a regular game" stuff, at least for the Euro leagues.
Also, i'm assuming, at least for my area of the US, that since we're far from any US teams, it's hard for people to associate with a specific team, thus there are fewer fans, merchandise, etc in my area... which is why i find it ironic that so many people (again, around my area, NOT CP) are all of a sudden talking about players like they've followed them all their careers.... when in reality, they are just following the USA team, which is what many people do during big events, myself included.