What Figure Skater Should Taylor Swift Date?
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well the news have reached French CBC
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For some of the marketing specialists who know about the league and Taylor Swift : this is a finely orchestrated marketing move. Swift has been controlling her marketing since she was 14 years old. She is a true business woman on top of a singer, and she's a brand just as big as some shoe companies. Apparently she is worth over 740 million dollars. They also mention that this is a dream come true for the League that has always aimed to gain attention outside of the USA.
Enjoy the video.
Taylor Swift et Travis Kelce, une aubaine marketing pour la NFL | Sports | Radio-Canada
L'idylle entre Taylor Swift et Travis Kelce est une aubaine marketing pour la NFL, qui attire maintenant un public extérieur au monde du football.
ici.radio-canada.ca
For some of the marketing specialists who know about the league and Taylor Swift : this is a finely orchestrated marketing move. Swift has been controlling her marketing since she was 14 years old. She is a true business woman on top of a singer, and she's a brand just as big as some shoe companies. Apparently she is worth over 740 million dollars. They also mention that this is a dream come true for the League that has always aimed to gain attention outside of the USA.
Enjoy the video.
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well the news have reached French CBC
Taylor Swift et Travis Kelce, une aubaine marketing pour la NFL | Sports | Radio-Canada
L'idylle entre Taylor Swift et Travis Kelce est une aubaine marketing pour la NFL, qui attire maintenant un public extérieur au monde du football.
For some of the marketing specialists who know about the league and Taylor Swift : this is a finely orchestrated marketing move. Swift has been controlling her marketing since she was 14 years old. She is a true business woman on top of a singer, and she's a brand just as big as some shoe companies. Apparently she is worth over 740 million dollars. They also mention that this is a dream come true for the League that has always aimed to gain attention outside of the USA.
Enjoy the video.
Conformément aux droits de diffusion, le contenu sélectionné n’est pas offert dans votre pays. (ETA: Not available in your country)I would have loved to listen.
The relationship is an actual relationship, Trav and Taylor are dating with or without the NFL. but the NFL is marketing the heck of what fell into their lap. In the US, that is seen as trying to appeal to a female market that may not normally care about the NFL (unlike this particular female
) I like hearing about the new aspect of marketing to non-Americans, I had not thought of that.Given how often we fans can complain about skating not marketing itself correctly, I admire the NFL's quick turnaround.
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maybe you can use a VPN
I would have loved to listen.
The relationship is an actual relationship, Trav and Taylor are dating with or without the NFL. but the NFL is marketing the heck of what fell into their lap. In the US, that is seen as trying to appeal to a female market that may not normally care about the NFL (unlike this particular female
Given how often we fans can complain about skating not marketing itself correctly, I admire the NFL's quick turnaround.
in the news piece, they do mention that the female market has risen exponentially since Swift is attending matches.
The relationship may be real, the money making/marketing is too
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The NFL is worth $U.S. 143 billion. A sibgle football game (the 2021 Super Bowl) generated 485 million dfollars worth of advertising revenue alone, never mind ticket sales. (Of course the game featured halftime entertainment by the Canadian singer The Weekend. So there you go.)
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Comparing apples and oranges here @Mathman . A professional league made of 32 teams across the USA, I hope is worth more than one single singer.
The point made in the news video I shared is that Swift is not only a singer : she is a business woman, controlling her empire, including her branding since she is 14 years old. This is a win win situation for her and for the league. The league, though it may look wealthy, is definitely aiming to make even more money and to do so, they would love to gain interest abroad, and expand on their demographics of fans in the USA, mainly young women. Swift brings this to the game as she is world wide celebrated and appeals to younger women.
This is not my opinion, it's what is said in the video you would need a VPN to watch and of course, have some French proficiency to understand.
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See this fun map... https://www.mapsofworld.com/thematic-maps/most-popular-sports.html
Shows how American football is only the most popular sport in ... America... Soccer (real football) is popular all over the planet.
Shows how American football is only the most popular sport in ... America... Soccer (real football) is popular all over the planet.
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And then there's that lighter blue hockey country taking up the whole upper left corner, influencing those Alaskans as well. (And Finland? I didn't expect that.)
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I have never really understood why American football cares one way or another about whether sports fans in other countries have any interest. Every year there are a couple of NFL games played in England. English sports fans just think it's stupid. OK. Soccer is a world wide sport with fans in every country except the U.S. OK. (At least Americans have some passing interest in woman's soccer -- I suppose because we are good at it, unlike men's.)
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In the US, we just don't care about things we aren't good at. That's why we don't care about soccer. Not to mention, we're getting worse at women's soccer, which we used to be good at, so even interest is fading there. Oh, and some people hate the women's soccer team because they've protested during the national anthem before.
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Football as in soccer is also very interested in growing their market still although it's already immense... there is no stopping...
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I guess it's sort of like McDonalds. They figure that if they put a little toy in the bag along with the Big Mac, this will induce children to beg thier parents to take them to McDonalds. Marketing genius.
But woman's football (soccer) is actually an interesting study. In the 1970s it became official U.S. government policy to provide girls with equal opportunities as boys to participate in sports. Soccer became the go-to girls sport for school systems that wanted to be in compliance. A couple of sports generations later this movement produced wolrd championship teams.
Since then the rest of the world poured on the coal and has caught up. The U.S. is now just one good team among several worldwide. The U.S. women's team did not get worse, the other national teams got better.
But woman's football (soccer) is actually an interesting study. In the 1970s it became official U.S. government policy to provide girls with equal opportunities as boys to participate in sports. Soccer became the go-to girls sport for school systems that wanted to be in compliance. A couple of sports generations later this movement produced wolrd championship teams.
Since then the rest of the world poured on the coal and has caught up. The U.S. is now just one good team among several worldwide. The U.S. women's team did not get worse, the other national teams got better.
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Soccer may be the most popular, doesn't really matter to me about Travis and Taylor one way or the other.
But I must contest that it is "real" football, at least linguistically, (and you may not have meant it that way, so I apologize for the diversion) in English.
Google tells me there are 370 million native English speakers worldwide. Google tells me 270 of those native English speakers live in the US. Google tells that 18 million of those native English speakers live in Australia and 30 million in Canada. Both Australia and Canada, from what I see looking at their official sports organizations, call the game that Megan Rapinoe and Julie Ertz play "soccer".
Therefore, 85 percent of the native English speakers worldwide call it soccer. I understand that football can be Canadian rules or Australian rules in those countries, and therefore American football is used to distinguish the type of football, but it is still football.
If I am speaking in French, I will of course say le football. "Julie Ertz joue au football". But in English, "Julie Ertz plays soccer and her husband Zach Ertz plays football". At least if I want to use the word as native Anglophones use it. (and I am not using French to direct at you, but because it is non-English language I know best. And not nearly as well as you know English
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Soccer may be the most popular, doesn't really matter to me about Travis and Taylor one way or the other.
But I must contest that it is "real" football, at least linguistically, (and you may not have meant it that way, so I apologize for the diversion) in English.
Google tells me there are 370 million native English speakers worldwide. Google tells me 270 of those native English speakers live in the US. Google tells that 18 million of those native English speakers live in Australia and 30 million in Canada. Both Australia and Canada, from what I see looking at their official sports organizations, call the game that Megan Rapinoe and Julie Ertz play "soccer".
Therefore, 85 percent of the native English speakers worldwide call it soccer. I understand that football can be Canadian rules or Australian rules in those countries, but it is still football.
If I am speaking in French, I will of course say le football. "Julie Ertz joue au football". But in English, Julie Ertz plays soccer and her husband Zach Ertz plays football.
Language geeking out, done
If American football was real football it wouldn't be called American football but football and what you call soccer would be called English football.
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If American football was real football it wouldn't be called American football but football and what you call soccer would be called English football.
By whom? Native speakers or non native speakers?
Even excluding Canada and Australia, 75% of the native English speakers on the planet call the game that Travis Kelce plays “football”. No modifiers.
“”Canadian rules” football is not soccer. “Australian rules” football is not soccer. Just football as played in those countries.
I really don’t care, I can tell from context what sport it is, and if people want to go with British usage, hey, that’s fine with me, particularly if they are otherwise using British English.
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Just want to throw in, my issue with the word "football" being used to refer to anything other than Association Football is more literal.
In Association Football, the ball gets kicked around the field. If it touches the hand or arm at all, you get in trouble.
In the other sports, the ball hardly ever goes near the foot! It is mostly carried around the field under the arm. So, I don't understand how anybody with a straight face can use the word football to refer to those sports.
Is this Football?
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In Association Football, the ball gets kicked around the field. If it touches the hand or arm at all, you get in trouble.
In the other sports, the ball hardly ever goes near the foot! It is mostly carried around the field under the arm. So, I don't understand how anybody with a straight face can use the word football to refer to those sports.
Is this Football?
- American Football - no
- Australian Rules Football - no
- Rugby League Football - no
- Rugby Union Football - no
- Gaelic Football - maybe (Personally, I would say "no". But, at least it has more footwork than the sports above).
- Association Football - yes
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For those who are interested in the Queen's English (Victoria), as CaroLiza_fan alludes the word "soccer" means "asSOCiation football. That is a "soccer" was a person who played association football. But some time in the 1860s a youthful soccer at the Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, picked up the ball and ran with it across the goal line. Sportmen who went along with such an outlandish trick were called "Ruggers."
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