Rob Mercatante's Guatemala Journal: But can you name them?

February 03, 2005

But can you name them?

From AOL Sports News:

Worldwide media exposure is one of the benefits of being the host city for the Super Bowl. Sunday's game will be televised to 222 countries in a Super Bowl-record 31 languages.

The NFL estimates a potential worldwide audience of at least 1 billion people, with the game being carried in Arabic, Basque, Cantonese, Catalan, Danish, English, Farsi, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Hindu, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Thai.

Now what's really amazing about this story is that, by almost all counts, there are only 192 countries in the world (give or take a Taiwan or an East Timor.)

Which means that:

1. AOL has discovered secret countries that no-one else knows about, or

2. Mars, it turns out, has already been colonized, or

3. A certain sports writer needs to re-take Geography 101.

Posted by elcanche at February 3, 2005 03:21 PM

Comments

Loved your notion that AOl has discovered secret countries, heheheehe!! I did some research and my account is 193 countries in the world, how did they get 222? Unbelievable!! Thanks for the laughs! Love, Marisa

Posted by: Marisa at February 4, 2005 09:21 AM

What I want to know is did the writer even know the names of which teams are in the Super Bowl, let alone the names of the 30 or so MIA countries?

Posted by: Rogelio at February 4, 2005 10:52 AM