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I think F1 got significantly more popular in the past few years with Drive to Survive on Netflix, and then most recently with the F1 movie on Apple TV. It’s a sports league with history and has been around for a while, but I think significant popular mindshare only happened in the last 5 years.
The popularity of the English Premier League in the US is a factor not considered anywhere in the piece.
Probably because it’s not a “US league?” I might consider F1 in that case as it has gained in popularity a lot, and technically it’s owned by a U.S. company, but I’d never think of it as a U.S. league.
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But you can place bets on WWE games: https://www.sbo.net/wwe/ If they are not 100% transparent about it, then it's matchfixing.
yea, betting on the script. Like betting on the content of a new book coming out.
With "One Life To Live", that sort of surprise is less likely, and they can reshoot it if necessary.
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All sports are entertainment. No one watches the Jets expecting them to win.
I assume you’re being facetious, but just to be clear: WWE is scripted, while the Jets have a fair chance to win any given game.
The Jets are not favored to win many of their games. The expectation is that they lose.
There are multiple teams where mediocrity would be seen as an improvement.
However, people buy the jerseys, go to games, etc.
Things like the Combine and draft are becoming events on their own. The games are only there to provide the structure for why we should care about one group over another.
Sports are entertainment.
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All sports are entertainment. No one watches the Jets expecting them to win.
I assume you’re being facetious, but just to be clear: WWE is scripted, while the Jets have a fair chance to win any given game.
I think F1 got significantly more popular in the past few years with Drive to Survive on Netflix, and then most recently with the F1 movie on Apple TV. It’s a sports league with history and has been around for a while, but I think significant popular mindshare only happened in the last 5 years.
But in global terms F1 tried to grow it's reach to China and US. (Which then turned to "night time races" for their traditional European audience.
There has been, the esports leagues. The viewership on the LoL championship game had a larger viewership than then Super Bowl. Edit: Got caught not reading the article, sorry. I’ll leave this up as a monument to my shame.
Tfa directly addresses LoL. > LoL Esports: loses hundreds of millions of dollars annually, exists solely as a marketing mechanism to get people to play the actual game