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The '99 women's World Cup team: Why the appeal?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Jul 18, 2011.

  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    That's circular.

    It was magical because it was magical?
     
  2. Kermit McManus

    Kermit McManus New Member

    Yes. And the magic of it allow's me to use TV word like "magical."
     
  3. CarltonBanks

    CarltonBanks New Member

    You are 100% correct there...I was just trying to point out that the buzz about crowds of 100,000 is a bit overblown. And, yes, especially in the games that did not involve the USA.
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    The achievements in the Northwest duly noted (but that's kind of a weird sub-nation in its own right), the end of your post is just more bait for the anti-soccer crowd because you are inflating this growth so far beyond where it really is. The "baseball" they dumped was a minor league team that had serious attendance problems and stadium issues of its own before soccer ever showed up.

    And according to the following two links, there is exactly one place where MLS attendance is outpacing MLB: Seattle.

    http://mlsattendance.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

    http://espn.go.com/mlb/attendance

    That is a complete apples-and-gummi-worms comparison, too, because MLS has a substantially lower average ticket price and, more to the point, they play one-fifth as many games.

    Soccer is growing and finding its niche. There is no need to foolishly compare it to baseball.
     
  5. Boomer7

    Boomer7 Active Member

    Seeing as how none of the stadiums had a capacity of 100,000 at the time, I'm guessing that there wasn't a lot of "buzz about crowds of 100,000".
     
  6. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Brianna Scurry was front and center as one of the faces of that team.
     
  7. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Why the appeal? Because Christine Brennan said so.
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I think that is often the case, but not with the 1999 team.
     
  9. shockey

    shockey Active Member

    um, yeah? emphasis one ONE. if it was brianna and a bunch of homely but talented white chicks receive anywhere close to the same attention?
     
  10. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    I didn't watch one minute of it then or now.
     
  11. rmanfredi

    rmanfredi Active Member

    How quickly we forget about the "Miracle Worker," aka "Bora Bora"
     
  12. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Hard to say, but before the 1999 World Cup, Mia Hamm was the only player on that team that would qualify as being well-known, maybe Julie Foudy too.

    With the exception of Chastain and to a lesser extent, Hamm, most of the women on that team ranged from normal-looking to cute. It's not like they all looked like Heather Mitts. They looked like normal women, they're all educated, smart and basically what all of us would be thrilled to see our daughters grow up and become.

    I don't buy for a second that the only reason the 1999 team got attention is because they were all hot.
     
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