Things aren’t what they were 20 years ago for American viewers of soccer. Casual fans can watch the English Premier League on NBC/Peacock, the German and Spanish leagues on ESPN+, the UEFA Champions League on CBS/Paramount+, and lots of other elite play streaming somewhere. Ex-US players might be homers but who expects otherwise?
FOX has had some non-US games on the OTA network in the early round. If the US or Mexico had moved on to the elimination rounds they might have put those games on broadcast. The problem FOX has is they’re covering both the Euro Championship and the Copa America and they have to go to freelancers for both the booth and the studio shows. They just can’t build a connection with the audience (actually 2 audiences for the 2 competitions) the way NBC has for the Premier League. The result is second rate coverage. On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 1:07 PM John Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > American announcers being homers is nothing new. It's why Olympic coverage > is often unwatchable. > > American soccer commentators seem to think (wrongly) that the US actually > is among the top 8 in the world, so the idea that they crashed out of the > group stages of Copa America is *really* bad to them. This was supposed to > be America showing the world that it could win against real opposition, not > just the weak sauce in CONCACAF, in the lead up to the 2026 World Cup which > they are hosting. For bonus fun, check out the meltdown by Taylor Twellman > after the US failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. The mentality hasn't > changed. > > The other thing that adds to this, among followers of the US men's > national team, is that Canada's new coach, Jesse Marsch, is an American, > and was briefly in the running for the national team head coaching job a > couple of years ago - when they decided to just rehire Gregg Berhalter > instead. So there would be some on Fox, likely, who are thinking that had > Marsch got the job that he would have led the USA!USA!USA! to the semis, > rather than Canada. > > I hope Canada upsets Argentina so they can cry harder. > > John > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 7:15 AM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> CBC has a podcast episode today (~25 mins long) about the Canada vs Messi >> (argentina) game tonight. They speak about the recent history of the >> Canadian team and performance. >> >> The reason I'm sharing this to this list is that there is a few minutes >> where they speak about Fox Sports coverage. Fox commentators blatantly >> doing fox-ish things saying 'It should be America playing, not Canada'. >> I didn't realise that hate had oozed from the news division to the sports >> division of Fox. >> >> Canada vs. Messi, Argentina | CBC Radio >> <https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/canada-vs-messi-argentina-1.7257584> >> >> Canadian TV on TSN and CTV2 at 8pm tonight. >> >> USA tv on Fox (sports?) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1Bp0V_-7vdcXdfd6dChk1AbPE3wmo38ULsPxzByM3gmcuw%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1Bp0V_-7vdcXdfd6dChk1AbPE3wmo38ULsPxzByM3gmcuw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > John Edwards > "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against > incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtML12RUrDFy73TQnFwgNidxuoLzkOnQi37CLb5O6BpLyeA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtML12RUrDFy73TQnFwgNidxuoLzkOnQi37CLb5O6BpLyeA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiEcGfeGv20SYUM1JVOW2VV6K-ypbBAzRFg30ZgVk-%3DPAw%40mail.gmail.com.
