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> This is kind of the equivalent of the Superbowl for the Dutch Uh, I'm not too familiar with the Superbowl, but the title of 'most popular televised sporting
by Tijdreiziger 6y ago
> This is kind of the equivalent of the Superbowl for the Dutch
Uh, I'm not too familiar with the Superbowl, but the title of 'most popular televised sporting event in the Netherlands' definitely goes to the football world championship.
- armada651 6y ago> 'most popular televised sporting event in the Netherlands' It's not hard to compete for that title when your competition hasn't had a televised event in 24 years...
- Tijdreiziger 6y agoMore generally, the national ice skating championships are also nowhere near as popular as the national football championship (Eredivisie).
- armada651 6y agoNot every sporting event that uses a football is the same, neither is every sporting event that uses ice skates.
- ramblerman 6y agoUr digging in your heels pretty hard, but most dutch are disagreeing with you (myself included). It's just not a very fitting analogy.
- armada651 6y agoSorry if it seems I'm digging in my heels on the "equivalent" part, I should've worded that differently. If you were trying to find an equivalent Dutch sporting event to the Superbowl it would be the Eredivisie. But the point of the analogy was not to make a perfect equivalence to the Elfstedentocht, that would be impossible. The point was to convey to an American audience some semblance of the national importance of this particular sporting event.
- robador 6y agoI tried looking for a source but couldn't find it: I read years ago that a survey with the question "Would you rather have an elfstedentocht or win the World Cup" was answered predominantly with the former. I've used that as an example of how important this event is for the Dutch when explaining it to my foreign friends. I'll keep looking for a source, but no doubt the elfstedentocht is one of the most important events in Dutch culture regardless.
- Vinnl 6y agoThat is very surprising to me. I wonder if that would still hold today, where everyone under 24 and a good deal of people a couple years older than that have never consciously experienced an Elfstedentocht. I mean, it'd be nice, but... Winning the World Cup, as arguably the foremost nation that has never done so before, we'd certainly go crazy.
- Aeolun 6y agoMeh, I’m 33 now. I can’t remember the last elfstedentocht, but I’d still vote for that over winning the world cup any day. The world cup is great for sitting together and drinking beer. But we can do that without winning.
- mrmonkeyman 6y agoSooo not true. Dutchman here. Nobody cares about elfstedentocht, nobody in the civilized areas at least.
- FooBarWidget 6y agoI'm Dutch. I'm confused why anyone would downvote this comment. Parent has said nothing controversial or wrong, and did not violate any rules.
- FriendlyNormie 6y agoYou are Ackchyually.jpg
- Denvercoder9 6y ago> the title of 'most popular televised sporting event in the Netherlands' definitely goes to the football world championship Source? The last Elfstedentocht in 1997 had 9.2 million people watching it [1], while the semi-final of the Dutch national team in the world cup in 2014 had 9.1 million people watching it [2], and population had grown by ~1.5 million people in between. [1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijftiende_Elfstedentocht#Records https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijftiende_Elfstedentocht#Reco... [2] https://kijkonderzoek.nl/component/kijkcijfers/file,j1-6-1-p https://kijkonderzoek.nl/component/kijkcijfers/file,j1-6-1-p