OT - Sunday's Woman's World Cup TV

[WhiteBus]

Most viewed soccer match ever in the U.S.
Pretty impressive.

 

[RUonBrain]

Impressive and very cool
This was an awesome event, especially for all the young girls who have great role models to aspire to.

 

[MadRU]

and they all got to see Rutgers and NJ's own Carli Lloyd dominate a WC final like no one ever has previously (Men or Women).

 

[lighty]

It's strange how we always hear women don't like sports yet figure skating gets the biggest ratings every Olympics and now this.

 

[RUonBrain]

What I don't understand at all is this was one of the highest rated (if not highest) soccer game ever in this country, but advertisers were far more limited in #s and payments than for the men.

Can anyone explain?
More people watched this than World Series games, as nearly as many as the college football 2 semi final games

Why don't they get more advertising $?
I know soccer doesn't have all the commercials, but it should still rival the men's soccer games

 

[Extra Point]

ABC News is reporting that New York City may have a ticker tape parade for the World Champions.

 

[Rufaninga]

FinaL viewing was big, other rounds were miniscule compared to the men and other events.

 

[Caliknight]

25MM watched the final. That is huge. Carli made herself a lot of money that day.

 

[fg7321]

She has the Golden Boot!

 

[RU848789]

She has the Golden Boot!

Actually, she doesn't. Sasic won the golden boot on tiebreaker (less minutes played), leaving Carli with the silver boot; more importantly, though, Lloyd won the golden ball (MVP) and, of course, the World Cup with the rest of the team.

http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/news/y=2015/m=7/news=lloyd-and-sasic-lead-the-way-2661396.html