Judging by the performance I say England will be lucky to get past the next round and USA might even beat us to first place.

Still, you have to admire the support. The voice of the stadium singing the national anthem and the amount of england flags brings a tear to the eye. Pity the team never match the level of support.

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That's why it's great fun to cheer against the English. It's your number one sport, and you cannot beat a nation that struggles to host a professional league.

American sports are probably ranked something like this, in terms of revenue / fanbase:

1. NFL (American football)

2. NBA (basketball)

3. MLB (baseball)

4. NCAA football (college)

5. NCAA basketball (college)

6. NASCAR (stock car racing)

7. WWE (wrestling)

8. NHL (hockey)

9. WNBA (women's basketball)

10. WPDL (watching paint dry league)

11. MLS (soccer)

I think you're greatly underestimating NASCAR. The money involved is huge. Sponsors pay millions of dollars per season just to be featured on the cars and drivers in the Sprint Cup series. The smaller logos that are only on a side panel, etc., are even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Having a winning car in NASCAR is a huge advantage for automotive manufacturers. In the 60s, NASCAR pretty much defined cars, to the point where the Dodge Charger, and probably most other muscle cars of the era, were pretty much made specifically for NASCAR. Today, the cars are far more similar to one another and strictly controlled, but even today it directly translates to sales to have your model name on the track (which is probably why Toyota has joined in).

Neat. 4:0 vs Australia.:)

To make it more fair, you should have to play with 7 players and no goaltender in the first round.

What's wrong with the bandwidths? I just watched Germany - Australia for a few minutes and the TV image was some crappy compressed lossy mpeg whatever. Are they putting all the bandwidth on some HD and let all other watch this crap? Digital TV was supposed to be an improvement, but as it is now, the lossy compression makes it as bad as the analog TV. Taking a freeze image of the screen really reveals how much they compress the video stream. What annoys me is that I already pay for this. Like everybody else. It's not like this is a channel free for everybody. I can live with it that HD costs some more, but not with the fact that they're downgrading the "normal" broadcasting in favour to HD.

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Well, yes. At least over here several demonstrations have been called up and famous egg throwing against one of our infamous politians... Probably many more, but I just don't fscking care about Facebook.

Yes. The most obvious one being the facebook group to stop facebook TOS.

That doesn't even count. It applies only to Facebook so it makes sense that using Facebook to express your opinion would be an optimal way to do it. The Facebook staff would pay attention to something like that in their own system from their own users. What about real world issues or at least things outside of Facebook?

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