- 03:46 AM
- 05/03/24
Sure, it'll happen someday. Just as another example, until a cocky American won the Tour de France - three times - no one in the rest of the world that an American would ever win it even once. No, it wasn't Lance Armstrong, either. Nice website you all got here, by the way - nice to be here.
posted by yhbc at 12:39 PM on June 04, 2002
Of course NBA Finals ratings are down...without U2
Speaking here as an unabashed Pats fan (from even before they won) I don't see the U2 halftime adding a whit to the sales of the DVD (or the video), although a few more folks may have tuned in at halftime of the actual game than otherwise would have (and just maybe, some of them stuck around for the second half, because they were so stunned to learn that the Patsies were winning at the time). It's far more likely that the "plucky underdog" thing, and, unfortunately, the "this year, we are all Patriots" thing, is what has made that Super Bowl such a big repeat seller. I can't imagine any U2 (or any musical group) fans actually buying the replay of a sports event, even a good one, even a championship, to see the band.