Justify My Glove: Before we get carried away with the knob-slobbing of the Winter Classic’s ratings, it is important to realize that the game featuring the beloved Red Wings had 10.5 rating and a 20 share in the Motor City. The Capital One Bowl showing at the same time had a 15.2 rating and a 28 share in Detroit. 45% more viewers picked two putrid college football teams over figure skating with sticks. Conclusion: hockey sucks.
H/T: Dallas Morning News Sports Media Blog
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I am no longer reading this blog because this post was so terrible.
That’s a straw man.
No one’s knob-slobbing the Winter Classic, because nobody gives a fuck about it.
+1 radio
Clown, fuck you. the Iowa Hawkeyes aren’t putrid.
I would like hockey if it had a more Escape to New York feel. it’s as if this sport is missing brimstone or a swinging chain or something. I don’t know, i suppose even then it would still be pointless…
The ratings vs. a college football game are irrelevant. College football is exponentially more popular than hockey. The important thing to look at is the ratings of the Winter Classic vs. last year’s Winter Classic, or vs. any other hockey game in general.
You know what this blog is missing? Better topics, better writing, and a different design
/radiobrainbutt
Other than that it’s fine.
/me
Wait, that makes no sense.
/st bear
I don’t know why everybody piles on hockey like its actually funny or something. In the future, all our sons and daughters will either be playing soccer with all their Mexican spouses and kids, or playing hockey. Why? Because the American economy is going in the tank and the dollar will soon be worthless compared to the Canadian dollar. Canadian billionaries will see a ready-made market of advert-loving retards in the U.S. who just do what commercials tell them to do, just like that one episode where Homer gets what the billboards tell him to. So I say get used to it, and GO RANGERS!!!
wrong bowl, stigs. you alright today?
Wait, radiobrainbutt is real? And racist? And a Rangers fan?
/awesome’d
shit, player fuck up. the second half of the Outback Bowl was up against the hockey game. i figured you meant that. my bad.
the rangers suck
@radio: hockey is the most expensive sport to play for kids, with the ice time and the equipment. with the economy like it is, i don’t see it getting more popular.
Uh, I CONDONE the biracial Mexican wedding thing, so you see I am not a racist. You can’t deny Mexican people have more babies than white people, thus their culture will win out in the next century. That’s how it works.
/Roman Empire’d
/Spanish Empire’d
/British Empire’d
stigs is right, hockey is expensive.
Soccer it is then. I say by 2025 or so.
I already have two Mexican soccer jerseys.
in terms of having more kids:
Jews >>> Mexicans
/MLJ’d
More Mexicans = More Burritos
/science?
//Tarbaby’d
I have my own Empire? Cool.
I changed my mind. Radiobrainbutt is not real.
radiobrainbutt = female orgasm?
/sportsgal
Business School 101:
1. R+D finds people of Mexico and Latin descent tend to enjoy the game of “futbol”, as does most of the world.
2. White Americans, on average, with ample leisure time and senses of entitlment, procrastinate reproduction until maximum of two children may be born. On average, most Americans fail to physically participate in sport, leaving it to small coterie of highly-paid athletes to watch on television (thus sharing of traditional forms of sport from generation to generation are ignored, left to tv, eventually fade away as market changes).
3. Prospects for higher Hispanic population of U.S. good and more than documented in reputable studies.
5. Falling dollar and American economic stature floods domestic market with foreign capital, American football fails to expand overseas or appeal to people who enjoy actual tough sports like rugby and can’t understand why they wear so much padding to begin with.
4. ? Invest in soccer and soccer-related activities for future.
=$$$$$
/Globalization’d
Is radiobrainbutt /jmorris?
/jmorris?
jinx
It’s a good thing he’s no longer reading this blog.
Radio thats why I only date white hoes. Im trying to end the race.
wow tampa. + 1000
o snap!
“In the future, all our sons and daughters will either be playing soccer with all their Mexican spouses and kids, or playing hockey.”
I remember when Cuba and the Soviet Union attacked the US to try to force us to play soccer and hockey. Luckily Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and crew kicked some commie ass. WOLVERINES!!!