Hoof the ball
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Anyone else watch any of these types of videos? I'm not talking about the kind of super click-baity folks who clearly are only in it for the views, but the kind of content makers who start off reacting to football for the first time and then within a relatively short period of time go on to become encapsulated by the game to the point that they're genuine fans in every sense of the word. In particular I'm very interested in what these kind of videos are doing for American's who otherwise wouldn't have that kind of exposure to the sport.
Two in particular come to mind. One is a channel called Da Bronco. Reacted to a football video about a year ago and now he's already made the travel over to England to watch PL games. With Youtube you never know if it's surface level, but with as many views as football videos tends to draw, and with just the proliferation of reaction videos it makes sense that you can win over geniune fans in no time.
Another channel is Luke's Sports Academy. He's an American football coach who coaches high school teams, and a year ago he started reacting to football videos. In a really short space of time he's gotten into the game from the intrigue of how football tactics work and how European leagues operate. Really great to see this kind of engagement that is beyond surface level. To top it all off, 9 months after his first football reaction he's now paid to start learning how to be a football coach in the States and going through the necessary badges. This is the kind of thing I love about what is happening on Youtube right now. It's pulling American's away from their established sports base and opening them up to football.
Two in particular come to mind. One is a channel called Da Bronco. Reacted to a football video about a year ago and now he's already made the travel over to England to watch PL games. With Youtube you never know if it's surface level, but with as many views as football videos tends to draw, and with just the proliferation of reaction videos it makes sense that you can win over geniune fans in no time.
Another channel is Luke's Sports Academy. He's an American football coach who coaches high school teams, and a year ago he started reacting to football videos. In a really short space of time he's gotten into the game from the intrigue of how football tactics work and how European leagues operate. Really great to see this kind of engagement that is beyond surface level. To top it all off, 9 months after his first football reaction he's now paid to start learning how to be a football coach in the States and going through the necessary badges. This is the kind of thing I love about what is happening on Youtube right now. It's pulling American's away from their established sports base and opening them up to football.