Finally Super Bowl Sunday has arrived. The day that American football fans watch two
teams play for a championship in an event titled The Super Bowl. It’s a game that generates endless conversation and articles
about the teams, players, and coaches. Millions of words are written about what food fans
will consume while watching the game and what commercials will be the most exciting.
Literally millions of people (mostly in North America) will
watch the game. Last year the Super Bowl set a new record for TV viewers: 111.3 million. That’s a big number for a “local” game, one
that involves only teams from one country – the US.
But that's a small number compared to those for other major
sporting events that draw participants from around the world. 700 million
people watched the 2010 World Cup and approximately 4 BILLION viewed the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London
Olympics. http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2012/08/07/2012-london-olympics-by-the-numbers . The men’s World Cricket Cup 2011 drew a
smaller but still impressive 67.6 million to their TV screens, 16.9 million
tennis fans watched finals at Wimbledon and 2.2 million tuned in to the 2012
Ryder cup, the US/Europe golf competition.
Whatever your sport or team you watch you’re not alone. Millions and millions of people around the
world will see the same games, at the same time. And it makes me wonder - Can cheering for the same sport, maybe the same team, be the link that enables us to connect with people across the borders, both virtual and real?
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