Jeff Rueter
speaker
461 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Jeff Rueter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they still can't quite conceptualize.
Ramshackle would be an understatement, I think I would say.
There was a point in the mid-aughts where it did feel like Major League Soccer was going to crater.
There wasn't terrible public interest after its initial launch in 1996.
But soccer really benefited from the American broadcast expansion into streaming with greater diversity of cable channels as well, where
Eventually, live programming, you've got baseball, basketball, football, those are always the most expensive broadcast rights in the United States.
But soccer was something that was on midday because of the time difference with Europe.
It was something where there were so many different pockets of it, there would be a natural audience for it in a nation of immigrants, right?
And so I think that it just grew and grew its foothold on the back of broadcasting.
That's a really good question.
And I think that it's more to do with the sports that they grow up with.
Like, you know, Mauricio Pochettino has always said this thing where, you know, in Argentina, in England, around the world, most of the place, the first place that a young person, a child will feel a ball is at their feet, right?
Well, in America, it's in your hands, right?
And so you're very used to, all right, baseball, you throw it, football, volleyball, you bump it over the net, whatever the case may be.
And so there's there's that component of it.
It's just a very different style of sport.
There's also the continuous play model, which is now being hampered with the hydration breaks at this World Cup.
They like being kind of cued in to say this is a big moment.
This is third down in American football and this is bigger.
The bottom of the ninth in baseball is the fourth quarter of this game.
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