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Fun reading this article that shows the pent-up demand for ways to view and enjoy women’s sports. And I love the fact that others are repeating her model in different cities. I wonder if there’s one near me?

www.cnbc.com

43-year-old used her life savings to open a bar that only plays women's sports—it brought in almost $1 million in 8 months

Jenny Nguyen, founder of Portland, Oregon-based The Sports Bra, says she never wanted to start her own bar or restaurant. Here's what changed her mind.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com
 
Every bar has atmosphere. I go for the atmosphere and the banter, who's serving, the drinks, the food, and honestly rarely know what's on the screens.
 
I have often found women's sport to be more entertaining to watch, as the players tend to depend more on skill and ability, and less on sheer physical strength, to dominate play.

That's certainly true of Association Football and Australian Rules Football, where physical strength is already subordinated to other skills by the rules of the game; Rugby Football, particularly Union, tends to be more about strength in both men's and women's competitions, so the differences (from the perspective of a spectator) are less stark, but they are still noticeable.

There's been a noticeable trend in Australia in the last decade or so towards more broadcasting of women's sport, and the amount of money being made available seems to be increasing too (likely because the increasing amount of screen time is enabling teams to attract more sponsorship dollars).

It probably helps that Australians are, as a nation, sports mad, and the female fans have always been more equally represented here than in other countries; Female footy fans are certainly far more visible here than in the UK, and Australian stadium crowds have been very much family oriented for as long as I have been here.

When I arrived from England in the 1990s, it was a noticeable and refreshing change from the very blokey atmosphere in English crowds. Elland Road was very much the preserve of fathers and sons, while Lang Park crowds included a lot more mothers and daughters.
 
NCAA women's basketball tournament this year had the highest ratings ever, and I'm pretty sure the women's final had a higher viewership than the men's. I'm in Iowa, so I'm a bit partial to Caitlin Clark, but she gets a lot of the credit for the rise in popularity of the women's game. The praise she gets is well deserved. Watch her on YouTube. Her court skills are really otherworldly.
 
MilesBennell said:
NCAA women's basketball tournament this year had the highest ratings ever, and I'm pretty sure the women's final had a higher viewership than the men's.
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The women's game had over 100% more viewers than last year's, and the men's game had the fewest in decades, but the men's game still had millions more viewers (14.7 vs. 9.9 million).

This was a very unusual year on the men's side, with the top 12 teams all knocked out before the championship game. #13 vs. #17 isn't "must see TV".
 
Bilby
I spent (wasted?) about 2 hours last night at a pub (good food though) in Melbourne watching the 3rd (and final) match of the State-of-Origin. It has been a awful long time since I watched so much Rugby League and now I remember why. Work dinner with some sand gropers, a frog lady and some Kiwis.
Such a culture shock.
The brawl at the 30min mark was the highlight of the 1st half IMHO.
I was hoping for a good dakking or a streaker to enliven the game. Glad the Blues won. The Maroons needed a good thrashing (Cocky lot).

I'll stick with AFL or soccer.
 
Did anyone else read it as Womens' Sports Bras popping (etc)?

Sorry.. still interesting.
 
Rhea said:
Fun reading this article that shows the pent-up demand for ways to view and enjoy women’s sports. And I love the fact that others are repeating her model in different cities. I wonder if there’s one near me?

www.cnbc.com

43-year-old used her life savings to open a bar that only plays women's sports—it brought in almost $1 million in 8 months

Jenny Nguyen, founder of Portland, Oregon-based The Sports Bra, says she never wanted to start her own bar or restaurant. Here's what changed her mind.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com
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I'm hoping for its success. But whether or not this novel idea becomes a huge lucrative business, the very best part is that government has nothing to do with it. It is private capital and business competing in the free market. It does not get any better than this.
 
Tigers! said:
Bilby
I spent (wasted?) about 2 hours last night at a pub (good food though) in Melbourne watching the 3rd (and final) match of the State-of-Origin. It has been a awful long time since I watched so much Rugby League and now I remember why. Work dinner with some sand gropers, a frog lady and some Kiwis.
Such a culture shock.
The brawl at the 30min mark was the highlight of the 1st half IMHO.
I was hoping for a good dakking or a streaker to enliven the game. Glad the Blues won. The Maroons needed a good thrashing (Cocky lot).

I'll stick with AFL or soccer.
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Perhaps you should have watched the WNRL State of Origin series instead, which the Queensland team won in Townsville on June 27th.

The Womens game is more skillful and less reliant on physical agression.
 
I watched NCAA women's basketball 🏀 finals online, I didn't want to miss the epic *women's sports* history. Angel Reese caught my eye; she and Caitlin Clark are amazing players and I love their competitions. The teams are great, obviously it's a team sport.

I already prefer sports bars. I'd prefer the heck out of a sports bar with women's sports!

One anecdote: back when the USA 🇺🇸 women's soccer ⚽️ team was headed for their famous win 🏆, I went to a gay sports bar called Boxers PHL, or Boxxers PHL. It was known as a sports bar for gay men, and men were indeed the majority of customers.

The night that the USA 🇺🇸 played ⚽️ 🏟 in, I think, the semi-finals, against Japan, literally every TV 📺 in the bar had that game on the screen. The bar TVs wrapped all the walls, and most of the bar patrons were heavily invested in seeing this game.

Everyone's heads swiveled like we were watching Wimbledon! Ohh I remember everything but the date 📅 ... people stopped shooting pool 🎱 to watch!!!

The USA won that semi-final and the bar erupted in cheers and applause.
 
The only sport my BIL watches is womans NCAA basketball. I thought it odd till I watch a few games with him. There is something about how they play that is more about skill than power.
 
I'm not into sports or sports bars so everytime my wife catches me idling on womens tennis and volleyball I end up sleeping on the sofa.
 
If I could give two :ROFLMAO: for that comment, I would.

Kinda like how in the (I think) 1996 Summer Olympics Bill Clinton all of a sudden was discovered to be a women's vollyball fan. Who knew?
 
bilby said:
I have often found women's sport to be more entertaining to watch, as the players tend to depend more on skill and ability, and less on sheer physical strength, to dominate play.

That's certainly true of Association Football and Australian Rules Football, where physical strength is already subordinated to other skills by the rules of the game; Rugby Football, particularly Union, tends to be more about strength in both men's and women's competitions, so the differences (from the perspective of a spectator) are less stark, but they are still noticeable.
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Yeah. I'm not into sports, period, but skill sports are nowhere near as bad as power sports.
 
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