Rare Honor for U.S. Women’s Soccer Team as New York City PlansTicker-Tape Parade

[SunSeeker]

Source: NYTimes.com

New York City will hold a ticker-tape parade on Friday for the United States women’s national soccer team, breaking with decades of precedent to bestow a rare honor upon a group that competes outside the metropolitan area.

Two days after the team’s World Cup triumph, the office of Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday that the players would be saluted along the Canyon of Heroes in Lower Manhattan at 11 a.m. Since Monday, lawmakers had noted that a parade would be a landmark city honor for a women’s team.

“The people have spoken,” the mayor’s wife, Chirlane McCray, wrote on Twitter, “and they want a ticker-tape parade.”



Read more: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/nyregion/new-york-city-ticker-tape-parade-for-us-womens-soccer-team.html

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I wish I could be in New York for this historic event!

[jtuck004]

1. Great!! n/t

[niyad]

2. well-deserved.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. And they dragged their feet on returning Iraq War vets?

[chknltl]

4. Very Cool

[tclambert]

5. Where are they gonna find ticker tape in this day and age?

Are or they just going to throw smartphones at them?

[brooklynite]

8. They haven't used ticker tape in decades...

...they used to use computer printout reams; today I think they shred whatever paper is handy.

[calimary]

6. And then PAY THEM MORE!!!!

I heard a shocking report yesterday that said these female soccer stars were getting 1/15th the pay their male counterparts did, or would. Championship or no. RIDICULOUS!!!! WTF??? They just fucking won the Fucking World Fucking Cup. They don't even make 75-cents on the dollar, as most of us women have been short-sheeted in salaries. RIDICULOUS! Even CRIMINAL!!!!

This better be the least they get!

[SunSeeker]

7. Indeed. FIFA paid them 5% of what they pay men.

Apparently the justification is that men's games have higher viewership and generate more revenue. That's what one DUer suggested when he pointed out that 900 million or so watched the men's World Cup and its revenues were close to $4 Billion.

But as I pointed out to him, FIFA was happy to spend $27M on a film that earned $918.

FIFA paid to make "United Passions," the league's $27 million history film, which was almost universally panned and made only $918 (yes, less than $1,000) at the American box office.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/06/the-sad-gender-economics-of-the-womens-world-cup/

I don't think we have the worldwide numbers yet on the 2015 Women's World Cup, but the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany lured in more than 400 million viewers worldwide, and that's with minimal media/station coverage and no brackets (as also happened with the 2015 Women's World Cup). http://www.cjr.org/analysis/womens_world_cup_bracket.php

So even if just based on viewership, the women should have been paid 50%, instead of 5%, of what the men were paid.

For the U.S. national team's stunning 5-2 win over Japan at the Women's World Cup on Sunday, a rout that made the Americans the first team ever to win three world championships, soccer's global governing body will award the team $2 million — about 5 percent of the $35 million FIFA gave to the German victors of last year's World Cup.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/06/the-sad-gender-economics-of-the-womens-world-cup/

[calimary]

9. Ahhh, women. Children of a lesser god, I guess.

SICK of this!!!!!