15% of the tickets made available worldwide went to u.s. fans. we have seen the fans there was 39,000 people there. half of those were americans. last night there was about 40,000 people in the game. at least a quarter of those probably a third were americans. so there and you see american family fans everywhere here. so if people haven t fallen in love with the sport they re spending a lot of money to come down here and look around. i think it could be a turning point. what do you think it is? early on the coach was criticized for saying that, listen, they re in a tough group and they wouldn t likely make it through. is it the players and dempsey has texas ties and loves hip-hop. what is it about the team that attracted us? i think one of the things is every four years. there s not a lot of white house are big fans of the luge or figure skating, necessarily. but we tune in every four years and learn the athletes and find out about them.
and she believes it. she s a fan of his. she sees him on television. are you as a family fans of the governor? he was hugely popular, then came this big scandal. his popularity s taken a big dent. do you still have confidence in him? i think that we watch him a lot. she knows we watch him a lot. because he s the person who s helping orchestrate the programs. we ve watched him. he seems to have a no nonsense manner about him. i liked that a lot. i would be really upset if we find out that s not really who he is. if it seemed to me like it was chris christie doing what he really wants to do today, he loves to fix things. and i think whatever the outcome of the bridgegate scandal, we don t know all the answers yet. but it was good to see him actually getting back to i guess what a governor should be doing, which is helping his constituents or at least trying to. nicole, do you like being on tv? yeah. is it fun? mm-hmm. [ laughter ] well, i think you should come back, nicole,
how could you look at that face and not do something? and she believes it. she s a fan of his. she sees him on television. are you as a family fans of the governor? he was hugely popular, then came this big scandal. his popularity s taken a big dent. do you still have confidence in him? i think that we watch him a lot. she knows we watch him a lot. because he s the person who s helping orchestrate the programs. we ve watched him. he seems to have a no nonsense manner about him. i liked that a lot. i would be really upset if we find out that s not really who he is. if it seemed to me like it was chris christie doing what he really wants to do today, he loves to fix things. and i think whatever the outcome of the bridgegate scandal, we don t know all the answers yet. but it was good to see him actually getting back to i guess what a governor should be doing, which is helping his constituents or at least trying to. nicole, do you like being on tv? yeah. is it fun? mm-hmm.
hides them and forgets where she puts them. when she finds them. kay loves to give gag gifts. that makes it really fun. by the end of the night, any gift that you have that s from one of our dogs from bobo, we know it will president-elect obama be a joke. probably be a joke. she has a great sense of humor. we love your family here. we are robertson family fans and we are not alone. have a very merry christmas. thank you all for being with us. merry christmas to you. coming up, it s hard to watch. a man hit by a car. he s sent flying. but somehow he walked away with just a few scratches. that amazing story up next. and get the kids in front of the tv because we are going swimming with santa. get your scuba gear. when we come back.