re: Men's Soccer, Women's Gymnastics, and Beach Volleyball

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Maybe it beats regular season NHL games, but regardless it doesn't make a dent compared to other sports.

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I'm guessing you don't know much about soccer and that's cool but this graph is horribly deceptive.

It's like using a Cowboys-Redskins regular season game as the basis for football popularity.

Chelsea plays United twice every year. In fact, they play on Sunday this week. At the exact same time there are 3 other major games going (La Liga, Liga MX, and Bundesliga) aired in the US.

I'm sure Chelsea-United will win the time slot as they are bigger brands, but it's not a very important game as neither are in the title race at all. It's rather meaningless to compare to a playoff game of any sort.