There is a popular urban myth regarding the Super Bowl — that the game is watched in 234 countries by 1 billion people, a fact unlikely to be true considering the time of the event, and the lack of popularity American Football has outside of the United States. In actual fact, Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005 was watched by 93 million viewers in total, of which 98 percent were in North America. Approximately half of the remaining 2 million worldwide viewers watched from the United Kingdom.
- this week’s President Bush’s State of The Union address (Nielsen): 42 million
- FIFA World Cup 2002 (wikipedia) : cumulative audience 28.8 billion, final match 1.1 billion
My guts feelings tell me that soccer is the real global sport. How could american football be so popular all around the globe?
Anyone has the answer?
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Super bowl is huge in the US even people that are not that much into football actually watch the super bowl. But those numbers are crazy i don’t think it was watched that much.
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the US viewership alone is well over 100-million each year
SB 38 (Feb. 2007) drew over 300-million world wide.
that number will likely be closer to 500-million this year. -
I live in europe and the game is broadcasted in the middle of the night on sunday…nobody watch the game beside some expats and some crazy local fans.in fact nobody is really aware that there is a game…people work on monday morning. beside europe tell me honestly who cares about american football presented even later at night or early in morning while normal people works..if there is 50 milion watching it it outside north america i would be very surprised..i was reading that 300 milion chinese are watching the game!!!..nothing less then 30% of the population..how can this be possible…its ridiculous..:-)))
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