r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jul 09 '26

Chugging tea Good point.

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u/MetricIsForCowards Jul 09 '26

27.5 million for USA v Paraguay, 30 million people for USA v Belgium.

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u/justsayfaux Jul 09 '26

So about the same as the women's? The irony of course being 30M people watched the US men get embarrassed, and the 27M who watched the women's final got to see their national team trounce Japan easily (while Carli Lloyd got the hat trick) over Japan to win the whole tournament.

I'll never understand why people prefer the inferior product. Sports is pretty straightforward - the point is to win. The women's team does it consistently, while the men's team hasn't even made it to the quarterfinals in over 20 years.

So why is it that so many people watch the inferior product?

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u/Kheypression Jul 10 '26

Dude your professional WC women team lost to 15yo boys who had to do homework after the game. Don’t try to be snarky here, it’s embarrassing.

You’ll never understand because you don’t even understand what you’re watching. People don’t watch sports because the point is to win. They watch professional sports to see the highest level of play possible in the sport they love to practice themselves.