American Sports Fans Would Even Watch Soccer At This Point

[Ubiquitous]

US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content. ESPN is featuring
tournaments of professional athletes playing video games with each
other and basketballers playing remote games of horse. Classic games
and championship series are being reaired on sports radio stations and
networks around the country. The distress is getting intense, and,
according to one study, some Americans are almost ready to settle for
soccer.

Sports Illustrated surveyed its online users to gauge where the level
of desperation is during this crisis. According to the results, 58% of
American sports fans were "almost willing" to watch an entire soccer
game if it were new content. This is a huge spike from the .7% that
Sports Illustrated reported in a similar survey last year.

"You can only watch reruns and old highlights so much," said one fan.
"I need to see new games. I'm seriously close to being able to watch
guys run around a field for an hour and a half and only score one goal.
It's that bad."

While interest in the sport scored higher than ever, a slightly higher
percentage of fans said they'd be more entertained by watching the
grass grow on the soccer field than actually watching a game.

--
Every American should want President Trump and his administration to
handle the coronavirus epidemic effectively and successfully. Those who
seem eager to see the president fail and to call every administration
misstep a fiasco risk letting their partisanship blind them to the
demands not only of civic responsibility but of basic decency.

[Rhino]

Post by Ubiquitous
US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content. ESPN is featuring
tournaments of professional athletes playing video games with each
other and basketballers playing remote games of horse.

Games of horse? I'm not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination
but I'm not dead either and I've never heard of a game called horse.

Post by Ubiquitous
Classic games
and championship series are being reaired on sports radio stations and
networks around the country. The distress is getting intense, and,
according to one study, some Americans are almost ready to settle for
soccer.
Sports Illustrated surveyed its online users to gauge where the level
of desperation is during this crisis. According to the results, 58% of
American sports fans were "almost willing" to watch an entire soccer
game if it were new content. This is a huge spike from the .7% that
Sports Illustrated reported in a similar survey last year.
"You can only watch reruns and old highlights so much," said one fan.
"I need to see new games. I'm seriously close to being able to watch
guys run around a field for an hour and a half and only score one goal.
It's that bad."
While interest in the sport scored higher than ever, a slightly higher
percentage of fans said they'd be more entertained by watching the
grass grow on the soccer field than actually watching a game.
--
Every American should want President Trump and his administration to
handle the coronavirus epidemic effectively and successfully. Those who
seem eager to see the president fail and to call every administration
misstep a fiasco risk letting their partisanship blind them to the
demands not only of civic responsibility but of basic decency.

[suzeeq]

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Post by Ubiquitous
US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content. ESPN is featuring
tournaments of professional athletes playing video games with each
other and basketballers playing remote games of horse.

Games of horse? I'm not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination
but I'm not dead either and I've never heard of a game called horse.

It's a 2 or 3 man game taking shots at the basket. When one misses they
get a letter, and whichever spells HORSE first loses. Or they get a
letter when they get a basket and winner is the first one two spell it
out. Seriously, you've never heard of this? Maybe it's only played in
the US.

[Jim G.]

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Post by Ubiquitous
US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content. ESPN is featuring
tournaments of professional athletes playing video games with each
other and basketballers playing remote games of horse.

Games of horse? I'm not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination
but I'm not dead either and I've never heard of a game called horse.

It's a 2 or 3 man game taking shots at the basket. When one misses they
get a letter, and whichever spells HORSE first loses. Or they get a
letter when they get a basket and winner is the first one two spell it
out. Seriously, you've never heard of this? Maybe it's only played in
the US.

We played a TON of games of HORSE as kids. The last game of the night,
though, was usually rushed and called PIG. :)

[Ian J. Ball]

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Post by Ubiquitous
US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content. ESPN is featuring
tournaments of professional athletes playing video games with each
other and basketballers playing remote games of horse.

Games of horse? I'm not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination
but I'm not dead either and I've never heard of a game called horse.

It's a 2 or 3 man game taking shots at the basket. When one misses they
get a letter, and whichever spells HORSE first loses. Or they get a
letter when they get a basket and winner is the first one two spell it
out. Seriously, you've never heard of this? Maybe it's only played in
the US.

We played a TON of games of HORSE as kids. The last game of the night,
though, was usually rushed and called PIG. :)

Was drinking of shots involved?... ;p

[Jim G.]

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Post by Ubiquitous
US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content. ESPN is featuring
tournaments of professional athletes playing video games with each
other and basketballers playing remote games of horse.

Games of horse? I'm not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination
but I'm not dead either and I've never heard of a game called horse.

It's a 2 or 3 man game taking shots at the basket. When one misses they
get a letter, and whichever spells HORSE first loses. Or they get a
letter when they get a basket and winner is the first one two spell it
out. Seriously, you've never heard of this? Maybe it's only played in
the US.

We played a TON of games of HORSE as kids. The last game of the night,
though, was usually rushed and called PIG. :)

Was drinking of shots involved?... ;p

Heh. No, the HORSE stage of life mostly ended at age 14 or so.

[Rhino]

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Post by Ubiquitous
US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content. ESPN is featuring
tournaments of professional athletes playing video games with each
other and basketballers playing remote games of horse.

Games of horse? I'm not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination
but I'm not dead either and I've never heard of a game called horse.

It's a 2 or 3 man game taking shots at the basket. When one misses they
get a letter, and whichever spells HORSE first loses. Or they get a
letter when they get a basket and winner is the first one two spell it
out. Seriously, you've never heard of this? Maybe it's only played in
the US.

This is the first I'm hearing of it. Mind you, I haven't picked up a
basketball since high school and that's WAY back in my rear view mirror.
Maybe it's a more recent innovation. Or maybe, as you say, we don't play
horse up here.

[suzeeq]

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Post by Ubiquitous
US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content. ESPN is featuring
tournaments of professional athletes playing video games with each
other and basketballers playing remote games of horse.

Games of horse? I'm not a sports fan by any stretch of the
imagination but I'm not dead either and I've never heard of a game
called horse.

It's a 2 or 3 man game taking shots at the basket. When one misses
they get a letter, and whichever spells HORSE first loses. Or they get
a letter when they get a basket and winner is the first one two spell
it out. Seriously, you've never heard of this? Maybe it's only played
in the US.

This is the first I'm hearing of it. Mind you, I haven't picked up a
basketball since high school and that's WAY back in my rear view mirror.
Maybe it's a more recent innovation. Or maybe, as you say, we don't play
horse up here.

I've never played it myself, that's why I don't know if you get a letter
if you miss a shot, or get it in. But I have seen it on tv. ;)

[moviePig]

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Post by Ubiquitous
US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content. ESPN is featuring
tournaments of professional athletes playing video games with each
other and basketballers playing remote games of horse.

Games of horse? I'm not a sports fan by any stretch of the
imagination but I'm not dead either and I've never heard of a game
called horse.

It's a 2 or 3 man game taking shots at the basket. When one misses
they get a letter, and whichever spells HORSE first loses. Or they
get a letter when they get a basket and winner is the first one two
spell it out. Seriously, you've never heard of this? Maybe it's only
played in the US.

This is the first I'm hearing of it. Mind you, I haven't picked up a
basketball since high school and that's WAY back in my rear view
mirror. Maybe it's a more recent innovation. Or maybe, as you say, we
don't play horse up here.

I've never played it myself, that's why I don't know if you get a letter
if you miss a shot, or get it in. But I have seen it on tv. ;)

Which one gives you a letter depends on what it is you're spelling...

[Ubiquitous]

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Post by Ubiquitous
US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content. ESPN is featuring
tournaments of professional athletes playing video games with each
other and basketballers playing remote games of horse.

Games of horse? I'm not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination
but I'm not dead either and I've never heard of a game called horse.

It's a 2 or 3 man game taking shots at the basket. When one misses they
get a letter, and whichever spells HORSE first loses. Or they get a
letter when they get a basket and winner is the first one two spell it
out. Seriously, you've never heard of this? Maybe it's only played in
the US.

The game is called MOOSE in Canada.

--
Every American should want President Trump and his administration to
handle the coronavirus epidemic effectively and successfully. Those who
seem eager to see the president fail and to call every administration
misstep a fiasco risk letting their partisanship blind them to the
demands not only of civic responsibility but of basic decency.

[Roger Blake]

Post by Ubiquitous
US - With the suspended or cancelled sports seasons, fans and media
companies alike are desperate for content.

Perhaps, but soccer is not a real sport.