World Cup - Coverage in USA

Jack

Extensive (live and recorded) coverage on ESPN2 and ABC with many of the games being broadcast in Hi-Definition (stunning on the HD 63" Mitsubishi in my basement)....anyone welcome if they bring the beer and promise not to cheer to loudly for England!

Slainte

Jim

Cheers

Jim

Jack/Jim,

ESPN had the best coverage when I was out for the '94 tournament in the States. It was often hilarious when some of the "majors" covered games, with comments like "The player has been ejected" when someone was sent off. On ESPN it was generally all in Spanish, but the emotion came through loud and clear.

Nic

quote:

Originally posted by nicnaim:
Jack/Jim,

ESPN had the best coverage when I was out for the '94 tournament in the States. It was often hilarious when some of the "majors" covered games, with comments like "The player has been ejected" when someone was sent off. On ESPN it was generally all in Spanish, but the emotion came through loud and clear.

Nic

Nic,

One of the best games I ever saw was in the 1994 tournament in Chicago: Germany: 3 Belgium: 2 in overtime.

Regards,

Haim

overtime!
Are you being ironic?

Jim, thanks. Are ESPN2 and ABC readily available channels in most hotel rooms or are they premium rate channels requiring a hit of tracking down in local pubs etc?

Looking forward to a bit of overtime.

I generally stay in the typical Hilton/westin/Sheraton hotels in USA. I'd say approx 30% of them have ESPN2. Probably best to track down the local "irish bar" or english pub. There's usually a smattering of them in most US cities.
Stating the obvious, I know, but do bear in mind that the USA (mainland) is anywhere between 6 to 9 hrs behind Germany, so some of the kick-off times may mean beer for breakfast!
matt.

Jack,

Where are you going to be staying in the US?

Richard

Nic

Thankfully the commenatating has moved on a bit since then but it's still weird hearing US accents commentating on fitba' games or matches...or should I say commentating on "soccer ties"...or using "field for pitch" or "goalie for keeper" or "overtime for extra time".....and the overly technical explanations on everything to matc the rest of the US sports world.

Cheers

Jim

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Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
overtime!
Are you being ironic?

Bob,

Unfortunately not. Haim is right, that is yet another of the American versions of "football speak" that I heard during that tournament. A lot of the comments had us howling.

In between actual matches that we went to, we tried to catch every game that we could on TV. This often involved odd locations, like hotel lobbies, in dry states where there were no bars.

Our longest leg by road was the drive from Boston to New Orleans, and then Dallas for my last match. Bloody good holiday.

Regards

Nic

On ESPN, there is an Irish guy who commentates. OK, I thought, at least HE will use the correct lingo. Not a chance. Maybe the commentators are caught between speaking to the ex-pat audience, & trying to use familiar lingo to interest & include the americans?
matt.

Richard,

Staying in Washington, not sure where yet still a bit fluid.

IF you stay in baltimore, there are quite a few bars that I guess would show footie. Also, in the "tysons corner" area, the hilton hotel has a sports bar, & v. near the shearton at tysons corner, there is a spanish/mexican restaurant/bar that definitely shows footie on a big screen. Mind you, there's not too much else to shout about for tysons corner that I know of. Georgetown is a good area for bars/restaurants, imho.
matt

Matt, thanks, useful info.