The person I was responding to called it “like being in a righteous army”, that doesn’t apply to millions watching on their couch. I’ve been working in a venue that hosts Champions League matches regularly for almost 2 decades. What the person I responded to said is very accurate, and very exclusive to football.
There’s no football stadium in the world that even remotely holds the amount of spectators a grand prix pulls.
I don’t know if you’ve ever lived in a city with a top tier football team. I’ve never watched a PSG game but I still know whenever they score a goal because the entire city starts shouting. During important games every cafe with a TV has a crowd in front of it watching. The entire city is the stadium.
I get what you’re saying but this is in Toulouse, this wasn’t even “their” team. Lots of people watch, I get it. But I simply refuse to accept that this behaviour is just a numbers game.
They’re emulating what’s happening in Paris, they want to be part of the biggest sporting event of the year. 10 million people watched the final in France, that’s 1/6 of the french population (and that’s just the legal streams). No other sport gets that kind of motion, not by a country mile. The world cup gets a billion and a half globally. Genuinely, if you were in the streets in Paris on saturday you wouldn’t be questioning it, within a half hour of the game ending there were enough people outside to block all the traffic, and I live on the edge of the city, that’s what it was like at its lightest. No other event gets that many people in the streets, no protest gets that large. It’s literally the biggest event these kids will see in their lives, outside maybe of the Hajj.
Religions are nothing if they don’t have numbers behind them. If you win the numbers game you’ve got the game in the bag.
The person I was responding to called it “like being in a righteous army”, that doesn’t apply to millions watching on their couch. I’ve been working in a venue that hosts Champions League matches regularly for almost 2 decades. What the person I responded to said is very accurate, and very exclusive to football.
There’s no football stadium in the world that even remotely holds the amount of spectators a grand prix pulls.
I don’t know if you’ve ever lived in a city with a top tier football team. I’ve never watched a PSG game but I still know whenever they score a goal because the entire city starts shouting. During important games every cafe with a TV has a crowd in front of it watching. The entire city is the stadium.
I get what you’re saying but this is in Toulouse, this wasn’t even “their” team. Lots of people watch, I get it. But I simply refuse to accept that this behaviour is just a numbers game.
They’re emulating what’s happening in Paris, they want to be part of the biggest sporting event of the year. 10 million people watched the final in France, that’s 1/6 of the french population (and that’s just the legal streams). No other sport gets that kind of motion, not by a country mile. The world cup gets a billion and a half globally. Genuinely, if you were in the streets in Paris on saturday you wouldn’t be questioning it, within a half hour of the game ending there were enough people outside to block all the traffic, and I live on the edge of the city, that’s what it was like at its lightest. No other event gets that many people in the streets, no protest gets that large. It’s literally the biggest event these kids will see in their lives, outside maybe of the Hajj.
Religions are nothing if they don’t have numbers behind them. If you win the numbers game you’ve got the game in the bag.