From: "Rick Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 3:42:09 PM, David Funk wrote:
> > > So the intensity of the spam bombing is inversely proportional to
> > > the local computer community 'clue level'. This tends to indicate
> > > that there are more clue-less American windows llusers than there
> > > are German. No surprise there, however a bit counter-productive
> > > given the original perps probable desired results. ;)
> >
> > IIRC Sober P advertised free World Cup tickets or something like
> > that. That would tend to get people to open the virus spams in
> > Europe, but probably wouldn't mean sh!t here in the U.S. where
> > probably fewer than 1 in 10 people has any idea what a "World
> > Cup" is. Superbowl they've heard of. World Cup not. ;-)
> >
>
> That's not really accurate, soccer is actually one of the largest team,
> youth, sports in America now. IIRC it's has been the YMCA's biggest team
> sport for nearly a decade. That means the kids that are playing, and their
> parents, will know what a World Cup is. In America we tended to judge the
> enthusiasm for a sport based on revenue and media coverage. Right now the
> advertising target for athletics are those who play, are involved in or
> played soccer when they were kids. When I was in school there was 5 days
> devoted to soccer in JR. High and that was it. Now there are probably more
> soccer families in our community than baseball. In the next 10 - 15 years
> you will see a big difference in the number of pro soccer teams in the US
as
> well as an increase in coverage because the kids that have grown up
playing
> soccer will have the money to be heard and catered to. It's economics not
> ignorance, sports media coverage follows the money, as it always has.
>
> Rick
There IS a reason that one of the Ugly American stereotypes is the
utterly impatient always over scheduled SUV driving "Soccer Mom."
{^_-}
