Recall the post from Josh as he combed the NY Times archives for early references to soccer or football. He managed to find a tidbit from 1885 about ‘Association Football’ and I wondered which PR genius thought ‘Soccer’ was a good term. Well it turns out the term was really Sock-er. Scary. I like footie [...]
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Football by Electric Light – circa 1885
Like many, I cheered the NY Times when they finally euthanized Times Select and let poor/cheap people like me back into the opinion columns. But they also opened up their archives going back over a century. What a fantastic move – even if they were motivated more by online ad $$$$ than the public good.
So [...]
Remember – Nobody Cares About Soccer In The US
The blogosphere was buzzing today about the story of The Fugees, a soccer team of mostly African refugees that wasn’t allowed to use their city park to play soccer and faced many challenges. As I write this, 67 blogs have written about this story and it was the most emailed story from the NY Times [...]
Soccer Unpopular Because NY Cosmos Folded! Huh?
You can’t be serious. Jonathan Mahler has an article in the New York Times today (HT Moulin) that starts out with this gem:
With the 2006 World Cup building toward its climax, soccer has reasserted its claim as the most popular sport on the planet. But in most of America, interest in the game remains – [...]
