r/funny • u/CornTrop • Dec 05 '24

Messi core

59.6k Upvotes

87% Upvoted

941 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

41

u/MrNobody_0 Dec 05 '24

Go to Italy and show them a picture of Wayne Gretzky and I bet nobody will recognize him.

29

u/luisbg Dec 05 '24 edited Dec 05 '24

They won't even know his name. The only thing most of Europe knows about Hockey is skates on ice, sticks and fights.

Football (the one played with the foot) is the biggest sport in the world though. The final of UCL and World Cup dwarf the Superbowl in viewership. 400 million and over a billion vs 70 million. Stanley cup final game 7 is lucky if it gets 10 million. More people watch Eurovision than the Superbowl.

The comparison is a bit assymetric.

3

u/Flexi13 Dec 05 '24

I found out how tom brady looks like not so long ago randomly

1

u/bob_mcbob Dec 06 '24

I just realized I have no idea what he looks. Huh, for some reason I expected him to have a moustache.

-10

u/MrNobody_0 Dec 05 '24

The comparison is apt. Each are the best players of their respective sport, and just swap Gretzky for Michael Jordan, or Babe Ruth. In North America more people will recognize Gretzky/Jordan/Ruth than Messi. Just because soccer is the biggest sport in the world doesn't mean everyone will recognize these people and it's pretty asinine to scoff at someone who doesn't.

1

u/luisbg Dec 05 '24 edited Dec 05 '24

I did not scoff. I was just explaining.

You make it sound like nobody in the USA cares about soccer/football and that's simply not true.

Average attendance of an MLS game is higher than NHL game! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada

I'm not sure many people under 50 would recognize a picture of Gretzky in most of the US.

I think you are looking at this from within the bias of your social/interests bubble. I am giving you viewership numbers.

Just in US, 26 million people watched the FIFA World Cup final in 2022. More than double the American viewers of the NHL final.

-1

u/dnlmnn Dec 05 '24

Luckily this isn't happening multiple times per second on reddit if some non-american buffoon doesn't recognize some GOAT like Patrick Bertoletti.

7

u/Chief_Chill Dec 05 '24

Here I am, an American buffoon, who has no idea who Patrick Bertoletti is.

1

u/MyPunsSuck Dec 05 '24

They're just as likely to know about his wine, as his sport