Gaelic games go out to 9 million American viewers

Started by Eamonnca1, February 06, 2013, 04:38:02 AM

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Eamonnca1

February 06, 2013, 04:38:02 AM
Great story here on the GAA stars helping out with reconstruction efforts in New York after Sandy.  NBC is a mainstream broadcast channel with big ratings. This is major.

Syferus

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February 06, 2013, 06:19:46 AM Last Edit: February 06, 2013, 06:24:04 AM by Syferus
Well, major in NBC's inability or unwillingness to bother with even 12 year-old summer essay levels of fact-checking: "...the players' first visit was just after coach Pat Gilroy won the All-Ireland championship, ten days after the storm."

Pat knowing about this storm back in 2011 and not giving them a heads-up was a bit of a dick move.

As usual, GAA players continue to show themselves to be one of the most exceptional groups of athletes in the world.

Denn Forever

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February 06, 2013, 10:45:38 AM
I liked they pronounced Donal Oohg.  Well done lads.
I have more respect for a man
that says what he means and
means what he says...

Hardy

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February 06, 2013, 12:34:02 PM
Great stuff altogether.

J70

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February 06, 2013, 01:07:38 PM
Nice to see them on it, but that was as sloppy a report as I've ever seen.

Eamonnca1

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February 06, 2013, 05:26:34 PM
The couple of seconds of hurling footage was what I liked. It'll be interesting to see if there's any effect on the hits on my youtube channel.

Jinxy

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February 06, 2013, 10:32:48 PM
Eamonn,  why did you have to disable the comments on the football vid?
Always enjoyed reading the views of people from other countries that were new to the game.
I can only assume that like most youtube vids, the comments gradually descended into racist nonsense etc.
If you were any use you'd be playing.

Eamonnca1

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February 07, 2013, 05:58:57 AM Last Edit: February 07, 2013, 06:02:17 AM by Eamonnca1
The football vid was attracting a lot of negative comments, Jinx.  Most of it was idiots complaining that they'd heard that tune on a lot of other youtube videos (how was i supposed to know what people hear when they spend their entire day watching cat videos?) but quite a few of them were from people saying what a stupid game it is.  In the end I got fed up deleting three comments every day so I just disabled them. 

The hurling vids never have that problem.  The only problem there is a few idiot Irish teenagers claiming that nobody in Ireland calls the hurley a "stick".

But yes, it is interesting to hear the views of people who have never seen the game before.  The reaction to the hurling videos are almost unanimously positive.
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