Should that girl soccer team get equal pay?

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:52 pm

Should that one girl soccer team that played that one game in Belgium or wherever the other week get equal pay to United States National Team?

by **Bernie Sanders** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:13 pm

Women's Soccer drew in more money than the men's teams. They should make more money than men.

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:24 pm

Bernie Sanders wrote:Women's Soccer drew in more money than the men's teams.

The girl world cup earned $73 million. The main World Cup earned $6 billion.

(https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozania ... -justified)

For every $1 the girl World Cup earned, the main World Cup earned $82.

by **Bernie Sanders** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:04 pm

More people watched the Women's World Cup in 2019, than the Men's World Cup in 2018

Thank you for playing Saxi.

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:26 pm

Bernie was wrong by a factor of 8,200% the first time, now he's going to play again ...

Bernie Sanders wrote:More people watched the Women's World Cup in 2019, than the Men's World Cup in 2018.

Main World Cup: 3.5 billion viewers (https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foo ... 94261.html)
Girls World Cup: 1.0 billion viewers (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ ... ds-1221957)

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:27 pm

OFC, what Bernie meant ... and what, given enough tries, he might get right, is that the girls wc final got more viewers in the United States than the 2018 main wc.

In other words, more Americans were interested in watching the United States team play in 2019 than were interested in watching the Croatian team play in 2018. What an achievement, ladies!!! :lol:

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:34 pm

US TV viewers last week ...

1. Late Night with Stephen Colbert - 3,113,000 viewers
2. Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon - 2,400,000
3. America's Got Talent - 2,020,000
4. The Bachelorette - 1,932,000
5. Nightline - 1,270,000
6. American Ninja Warrior - 1,084,000
7. The Amazing Race - 1,079,000
8. Holey Moley - 1,340,000
9. Girls World Cup - 1,050,000
10. Big Bang Theory (rerun) - 890,000
https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/categ ... y-ratings/

It looks like if the girls want to be paid more they should appear on The Bachelorette, instead. Or American Ninja Warriors.

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:35 pm

Most successful female sport on US TV this week:

by **Bernie Sanders** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:43 pm

I can see your hatred for women.

Come join the party with underage girls!
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/trump-and-epstein-and-28-girls-new-york-times

by **Bernie Sanders** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:53 pm

Oh lookie here, another Trump appointee with scandal swirling around him.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/01/opinions/alex-acosta-epstein-opinion-reyes/index.html

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:54 pm

Bernie Sanders wrote:I can see your hatred for women.

I don't hate women. I love truth. The truth is The Bachelorette was the most popular televised female sport on US TV this week.

by **betiko** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 5:40 pm

Saxi you are wrong

by **mookiemcgee** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 6:14 pm

saxitoxin wrote:US TV viewers last week ...

1. Late Night with Stephen Colbert - 3,113,000 viewers

That's pretty close to how many more votes Hillary had over Trump!

Saxi, if you eliminate Colbert, Trump could win the popular vote in 2020.

by **jimboston** on Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:20 pm

I’m not sure what your point is Saxi.

You can make the case that the Women’s World Cup Team (WWCT) should be paid based on the revenue their performance generates.... which has no relationship to what the men get paid. i wouldn’t know or care which is more. The pay should be related to the revenue; which would come from TV broadcast (both domestic and worldwide), sponsorships, advertising, public appearance fees, etc.

You can make this case without in any way diminishing the performance and efforts of the women players.
... or can’t you?

I guess that would be less fun?

i’m not generally a fan of women sports, but I’m not a crazy fanatic about any sport.
(Except maybe the Bruins, who rock... well and every Boston Team.)

That said there are some sports where (I find) the women are equal to or better than the men when it comes to my (subject) option of the entertainment value.

- Women’s Tennis for instance is currently more interesting than the Men’s field because the men’s side is dominated by 3 players. Also, some of the bigger men it’s all “Serve and Volley” which can get boring.

- Women’s Beach Volleyball trumps Men’s Beach Volleyball... is Men’s Beach Volleyball even a thing?

- I used to be into WWE Wrestling... don’t watch much now, but I think if I were the Diva’s would be what I was going for.

- Olympic Gymnastics and Figure Skating... not really into watching the men. Sorry.

- I dig male, female, and coed Olympic Curling all equally.

The point is... you have some valid thoughts about pay, but do you have to be chauvinistic while you discuss these ideas?