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Originally Posted by RunDownHouse.
I've always been curious about the sport of cricket. Right now the World Cup is going on, and I can't watch it without contortions (of legal and illegal varieties) or, at the easiest, paying for access. I've got cable with ESPN, Fox Sports, NBC Sports, and CBS sports. Those channels are currently showing everything from a replay of a women's college basketball game to a replay of poker that happened last year to a sports talk show called, "His and Hers." Is it really more profitable for NBCS to show "Total Gym. Does it work," than live cricket?
I guess, only because of my faith in relentless capitalism, but man is it frustrating.
Cricket is actually one of the world's most popular sports owed almost entirely to the Indian subcontinent and the kind of zealous sports following that honestly, eclipses anything you've ever seen.
There's 1.7 billion of them and they're bat**** crazy for the game. You could make a good case for Sachin Tendulkar being the most 'deified' sportsman ever.
A friend of mine once said something along the lines of "Imagine David Beckham at the height of his fame, now imagine that he captained us to winning the World Cup, scored a hat-trick in the final with a last-minute free-kick winner, and he still wouldn't come close to the admiration and love that Indians have for Tendulkar.