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[Misterpants]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

The 50% is over the course of the tournament, (roughly similar calculation as the US football numbers, to be clear, as I totalled them though without accounting for people who watched all three games).

On a per-game basis, the single-game record for a World Juniors game accounts for 19% of the population in average viewership, while the single-game record for a Thanksgiving day game is about 12% of the US population.

The record for a boxing day game is about 8%.

So wouldn't you have to total the numbers for every teams games? Aren't there multiple games going on at the same time?

[Misterpants]

*pushes glasses up nose* "Actually, 10% of the population by region, accounting for temporal shifts and..."

Whatever nerdlinger.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

It just seems dumb to have the two biggest family/social gatherings in the calendar four weeks apart.

“So glad you guys could make it out. Always great to see you.”

“Great to see you too. It’s just so nice to have everyone together.”

“Have a safe trip home. And see you again in four weeks.”

“See you then!”

Once you’re part of a large family that is quite spread out, it’s nice to have options to split major holidays.

I mean these holidays occur when they do. The 4th is another big one when families gather. It just feels like more of a thing in the US to do this.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

OK, that seems a bit more reasonable. I'm actually surprised the US is as low as that, but I guess we just get windows into their culture. Going by what media shows us, even the dog has their own NFL stream going.

To be totally fair, that small percentage that watches an individual football game on Thanksgiving is bigger than the entire Canadian population, and bigger than the highest global viewership a single full tournament of the world juniors has ever had.

So, yeah, it’s not nothing. I just wanted to show that the World Juniors are also very much “not nothing” in Canada.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Misterpants

So wouldn't you have to total the numbers for every teams games? Aren't there multiple games going on at the same time?

There are not.

[Slava]

Watching Canada hammer Germany 9-1 or whatever and listening to the guys on TSN say how incredible it is that one of the kids put up 5 points against poor competition is something I can do without. I might not have lost interest entirely by the time the games matter two weeks later, but it's hardly a huge tradition for me.

[Roughneck]

When the tournament was mostly in Europe the appeal of an early Boxing Day game was certainly better. Recovering from dinner with hockey on in the morning was fun. Now that the tournament is in Canada and the US three out of four years or whatever it is and the games are moved to prime time takes a lot of that away, IMO.

[Sliver]

Yo keep the hockey talk to the proper forum please. This is where we get to enjoy a break from talking about how fun it is to watch other people play sports.

[getbak]

This story says 19.4 million Canadians watch some of the 2015 World Junior tournament with 13.4 watching at least part of the Gold medal game: https://m.worldjunior2017.com/en/new...ership-record/

That was the year Toronto and Montreal co-hosted the tournament and the McDavid hype was big. Canada's population was around 35.4 million at the time.

Of course, those sorts of numbers are estimates from the ratings agency, and included anyone who happened to be in the same room as where the game was on the tv for at least 1 minute, so who knows how accurate they really are?

[MoneyGuy]

The U.S. will change the Thanksgiving Day date right after they adopt the metric system and ban guns.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

The record for NFL viewers in one day (total, all games) accounts for about 29% of the US population.

The record for World Juniors viewership in Canada accounts for just over 50% of the population, with 2021 accounting for about 35%.

Boxing day shopping has largely subsided with Black Friday becoming a thing in Canada, but before that it was Canada’s version of Black Friday.

Guess you’re not very Canadian.

The first day of the tournament. 50% on the Boxing Day itself (total, all games)?

[undercoverbrother]

Last Night:

UCB "I'll have a Trad please"

Waitress confused look

UCB "I'll have a Traditional please"

Waitress "A Traditional? Is that a cocktail"

UCB "No it's a beer, Big Rock?"

Waitress "We only carry local breweries here"


FFS, Big Rock is an OG local brewery

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yo keep the hockey talk to the proper forum please. This is where we get to enjoy a break from talking about how fun it is to watch other people play sports.

You want to keep Thanksgiving and Halloween separate. Gotcha. I'm not saying it's a hill to die on, just mused out loud that a tiger striped option seemed kinda interesting.

Just like how you probably won't like eating cheezies and black licorice at the same time although in theory they kinda look good together.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yo keep the hockey talk to the proper forum please. This is where we get to enjoy a break from talking about how fun it is to watch other people play sports.

Originally Posted by DoubleF

You want to keep Thanksgiving and Halloween separate. Gotcha. I'm not saying it's a hill to die on, just mused out loud that a tiger striped option seemed kinda interesting.

Just like how you probably won't like eating cheezies and black licorice at the same time although in theory they kinda look good together.

arrrrr what?

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

arrrrr what?

I... don't know what I was responding to either.

Go home DoubleF. You're drunk.

[topfiverecords]

Is day drinking on American Thanksgiving a Canadian tradition?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Is day drinking on American Thanksgiving a Canadian tradition?

It oughta be. Its nice having sports on during the day.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Is day drinking on American Thanksgiving a Canadian tradition?

Judging by the number of our sales guys who came in today (zero) that answer is 'yes'.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

I... don't know what I was responding to either.

Go home DoubleF. You're drunk.

Haha this is probably the first time I've laughed out loud on CP in all these years. That was weirdly awesome.

[mrkajz44]

I think my biggest laugh on CP was when someone was talking about basketball and someone else imbedded a YouTube video about the Heritage Moment around a Canadian inventing basketball. Only problem was the video started normal and then devolved into this horror-like trailer where the caretaker was out for blood because they wanted to cut holes in his peach baskets.

"Let's cut the bottom out of the basket"
"But I need these baskets back..."

"You take my baskets......I take your life!"

The total unexpected turn in the video was priceless.