This year’s SuperBowl captured an estimated 93.2 million viewers. This makes it the third most watched television program in history. The articles I read about this story do not in any way qualify their superlatives as being national figures. It kind of reminds me of how the championship for baseball pitting the National League Champions against the American League Champions is called the World Series (yes, there are two teams from Canada).

Many people in the rest of the World play a game that they like to call Football. The cumulative audience over the 25 match days of the 2002 World Cup reached a total of 28.8 billion viewers. There are Americans who feel the need to disparage what they refer to as soccer. I don’t want to pick sides, but I would love to host a heated argument in my comments section. I think it is a no brainer to say that team sports tend to draw people who like to pick a side.