The numbers still aren’t in any way comparable, the champions league final has hundreds of millions of people watching. If you were anywhere in Paris last night you were hearing screaming, honking and fireworks until 3 in the morning, the streets were filled like it was a carnival.
The person I was responding to called it “like being in a righteous army”, that doesn’t apply to millions watching on their couch. I’ve been working in a venue that hosts Champions League matches regularly for almost 2 decades. What the person I responded to said is very accurate, and very exclusive to football.
There’s no football stadium in the world that even remotely holds the amount of spectators a grand prix pulls.
I don’t know if you’ve ever lived in a city with a top tier football team. I’ve never watched a PSG game but I still know whenever they score a goal because the entire city starts shouting. During important games every cafe with a TV has a crowd in front of it watching. The entire city is the stadium.
I get what you’re saying but this is in Toulouse, this wasn’t even “their” team. Lots of people watch, I get it. But I simply refuse to accept that this behaviour is just a numbers game.
The numbers still aren’t in any way comparable, the champions league final has hundreds of millions of people watching. If you were anywhere in Paris last night you were hearing screaming, honking and fireworks until 3 in the morning, the streets were filled like it was a carnival.
The person I was responding to called it “like being in a righteous army”, that doesn’t apply to millions watching on their couch. I’ve been working in a venue that hosts Champions League matches regularly for almost 2 decades. What the person I responded to said is very accurate, and very exclusive to football.
There’s no football stadium in the world that even remotely holds the amount of spectators a grand prix pulls.
I don’t know if you’ve ever lived in a city with a top tier football team. I’ve never watched a PSG game but I still know whenever they score a goal because the entire city starts shouting. During important games every cafe with a TV has a crowd in front of it watching. The entire city is the stadium.
I get what you’re saying but this is in Toulouse, this wasn’t even “their” team. Lots of people watch, I get it. But I simply refuse to accept that this behaviour is just a numbers game.