As objectively as possible, football will need 5 consecutive Champions League finals of Inter-Juventus and another 5 of Real Madrid-Barcelona to reach the excitement of this single fixture.
This is just epic. And all I can fucking think of is that Inter vs fucking Frosinone clashes with the 2nd leg :chan:
Not really that objective if fuck all people will watch that don't usually watch S.American football and it's final numbers will be dwarfed by whatever final UEFA end up with.
Since when objective and popular are correlated?
Since you said said that there is objectively more excitement for a game. Which there isn't. How would you measure excitement? Is it the smaller pocket of fans who would regardless be watching the Libertadores Final anyway who are more excited now or is it the vast majority of fans who have a glance at wikipedia like myself and recognise Tevez, Gago amongst others and go, meh.
And yet hardly anyone gives a shit about it. Sadly it's much like when Inter played Milan all these times in the past 10 years. Sure, we all loved it but the average viewer didn't give a shit about Nocerino vs Guarin.
I was talking about football, what someone else has called 'Eupalla'. I'm not talking about the average joe that can't sniff his own shit when it comes to football.
River v Boca is the biggest derby in the world. With the correct terminology. That of a local rivalry. Objectively.
The Libertadores is more exciting than any other club competition in the world. Objectively.
There is no other derby in the top 10-15-20 of world football's best clubs in history (Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter, Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Man Utd, Bayern Munich, Boca Juniors, River Plate, Penarol, Ajax, Benfica, Porto, Santos etc...) that touches this rivalry in any aspect that doesn't involve money.
The two biggest possible derbies in European football in a CL final are Real Madrid vs Barcelona and Inter vs Juventus. It's nowhere near. I'm sorry if you cannot see this. Neither European derby is local and neither has the kind of history and hostility that the Buenos Aires Superclasico has.
Just because most people are unaware of this doesn't make it wrong. You can objectively say that Justin Bieber is not as good as almost everything out there in the music industry, yet he's one of the most popular figures.
Even though i agree with u that the rivalry and the magnitude of the game is big, popularity will always triumph in any field. You don't have to be sorry and on one has to agree with u for u to enjoy the game. I think u overstated how excited people are by this. To people who are care they are excited but to the rest they are not.
I don't get why you're talking about the average viewer again. I've used the term objectively exactly to avoid someone coming to tell me that a dull Southampton vs Huddersfield match on Saturday morning has more viewers.
Just because football's gone to the toilet in the last years and the new football fans are the shit that flows in it doesn't mean that the other side of the world is part of this new era and that no one gives a shit. This game is a blessing and for anyone that still give's a crap about the sport, it's the best thing ever. If people disagree, they should watch some Quidditch.
I don't care if people are excited about this game. I said I was/am super hyped. That's the only comment I made about anyone giving a shit about the game. And it was regarding my own feelings on it.
I also said that objectively, this is the most exciting thing that has happened to football. Because it is. Whether I personally watch it or not means jack shit. Just like Croatia making it to the World Cup final, being a new finalist, was the most exciting thing that happened to World Cups in recent history. Or Greece winning the Euro in 2004 out of nowhere was exciting. Probably people were bored when Greece was playing, but it was fucking exciting times and not just in Greece. Real Madrid winning 3 CLs on a trot is also an exciting feat. I sure hated the fact, but it doesn't stop it from being an exciting landmark in football history!
Everytime history is written there's objective excitement. People usually aren't part of this history so they and their fucking feelings about issues are always irrelevant.
I'm talking about the average viewer as you once again brought up objectivity. It's asubjectively a better fixture (than S'hampton-Scrubbersfield, which I never disputed)
I really don't mean this as an insult and hope you don't take it as such but just because you like to respect the values and standards of previously popular clubs it doesn't really mean shit. The word objectively cripples you here. It's a match of little interest regardless, I couldn't tell you one winner of the past 10 Libertadores games. It has about as much objective interest as that Argentina-Brazil game a few weeks ago.
I'll happily miss this game and go on rightfully calling myself a fan of the game at a deeper level than your opinion of everyone that watches Premiership football.
I'm talking about the average viewer as you once again brought up objectivity. It's asubjectively a better fixture (than S'hampton-Scrubbersfield, which I never disputed)
I really don't mean this as an insult and hope you don't take it as such but just because you like to respect the values and standards of previously popular clubs it doesn't really mean shit. The word objectively cripples you here. It's a match of little interest regardless, I couldn't tell you one winner of the past 10 Libertadores games. It has about as much objective interest as that Argentina-Brazil game a few weeks ago.
I'll happily miss this game and go on rightfully calling myself a fan of the game at a deeper level than your opinion of everyone that watches Premiership football.
probably because I'm not a part of this world.
It's a fact that the two most important football competitions in the world are UCL and Copa Libertadores. .
It's not, it's the UCL and World cup