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Given that companies pay lots of money for Advertisements, will Rugby ever be popular in the USA?

  • Lets ponder this a little more. Entities pay millions of dollars each to advertise on television during football, basketball, and baseball games. Football games contain tens of minutes of stoppage time accumulating from time outs, tv time outs, change of possession time outs, injury time outs, the two minute warning, and this is just to name a few. Baseball in general is a long game. The players warm up at the bottom and top of the inning, the game has no time limit, and again this is to just name a few stoppages. Basketball is not nearly as bad when it comes to stoppage time, but each team gets 6 time outs a half I believe, T.V. time outs, injury time outs, and halftime. This only includes the ones I can think of off the time of my head. My question is since most of this stoppage time is dedicated to advertisements, which equals millions of dollars in revenues to t.v. networks, will lobbyists find a way to discourage the popularity of rugby? Rugby is non stop for two forty five minute halves. Those who are injured are cared for on the field during live play. The ball is in constant motion, and the clock doesn't stop. At half time most viewers use the restroom and move around for a bit. Networks are not stupid and they know people will not being watching the television for the most part after the Rugby half, which will discourage advertisements. Will America find a way to shut down rugby much like what happened to Soccer?

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    No ways. Rugay will never be popular over here because we have a superior sport Football.

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What do you mean "shut down" soccer? Association Football is the biggest sport in the world, is growing by leaps and bounds in the American market judging by the number of specialty channels, and the mainstream American Fox network just paid a record sum to purchase the American rights to the next two World Cups. Soccer and rugby do suffer from a lack of natural breaks in the action when compared to the traditional North American big four (gridiron, baseball, basketball and ice hockey) but if the market is there the networks will find a way to cope. The growing success of soccer in the American market proves this. @ Sovereign Reaper: I agree. American football is a superior sport. It's superior to watching paint dry. Maybe.

blm

Americans love their gridiron and all the primadonas that play it. Hollywood certainly made it look interesting with all the different plays, big hit sound effects and the sound tracks that accompany any dramatic plays especially when QB is making that final all or nothing throw. They just forget to include frequent advertisements inbetween those plays. Give me rugby union any day. Where Real Men put everything on the line for the love of their country. Their is more to life than just financial incentives or popularity in places where people aren't interested at all. If they don't like rugby union, then they are missing out . Missing out on seeing real men play contact sport without all the padding, motorcycle helmets with sunglasses and any other hoohas they manage to put on.

Sky

I agree with blm, I was frequenting the Soccer section of yahoo answers during the FIFA world cup 2010 and it had 100x more traffic than the rugby section did during the IRB rugby world cup.

Cali

I don't think rugby will be as big in the USA as it is here in New Zealand but I think it can get big there. USA team are known as a 2nd tier national when it comes to being ranked in the official IRB rankings and the don't seem to play many games against the like of the All Blacks, Wallabies or the Springboks expect for the RWC and that only happens every four years. From what I know the superbowl happens every year unlike the RWC which happens every 4 years. The superbowl is played by only American teams where the RWC is played by 20 and normally dominated by the 1st tier teams. So to me networks in America puts money into predominantly American sports and back their own America teams. But we don't here much about the USA rugby team or American sports here and this is just my own opinion. Here in New Zealand rugby can be seen as a "religion" of sorts especially right now as we have just won the the world cup. A lot of the All Blacks are used in promotions for products. To us winning the Rugby World Cup is the equivalent to a team winning the super bowl there.

Hannah

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