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What da fuck.
from wikipedia:
While baseball is known as America's "national pastime," football is the most popular sport in the United States. According to the Harris Poll, professional football moved ahead of baseball as the fans' favorite in 1965 and has remained America's favorite sport ever since. In a Harris sports poll done in 2008, the NFL was the favorite sport of nearly as many people (30 percent) as the combined total of the next four professional sports – baseball (fifteen percent), auto racing (ten percent), hockey (five percent) and men’s pro basketball (four percent), [2] Additionally, Football's American TV viewership ratings now surpass those of other sports.[3]
 
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3 Lions
United States3705 Posts
i've always thought that nascar was as boring. this is kinda interesting, but I wouldn't put too much faith into wikipedia.
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LOOK at those cars go in a circle. oh waiiiiit they are going for another circle.
yah really, what the fcuk.
How is hockey more popular?
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Artosis
United States2138 Posts
it has HOCKEY above basketball.
in my 25 years ive met fewer than 10 americans who liked hockey.
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F1 vs Nascar has always been really contested on any auto enthusiast site
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United States13896 Posts
This doesn't mean racing is more popular, it just means more people list racing as their favorite "sport." I still don't really consider it a sport myself. There's a lot of nascar fanatics, where as there's a lot of casual NBA fans that are more into football/baseball.
If you had people list their top 5 professional sports I'd be willing to bet that basketball would average being higher up on the list than nascar/hockey
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On November 12 2008 10:50 []p4NDemik[] wrote:
This doesn't mean racing is more popular, it just means more people list racing as their favorite "sport." I still don't really consider it a sport myself. There's a lot of nascar fanatics, where as there's a lot of casual NBA fans that are more into football/baseball.
If you had people list their top 5 professional sports I'd be willing to bet that basketball would average being higher up on the list than nascar/hockey
well, basketball is much much more accessible than a pro racing car. so i have no clue why racing would be so friggin' high.
and yes, racing is boring.
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United States22883 Posts
Because NASCAR is more of a social event than an athletic competition for many people. I bet most fans are too drunk to know who won by the end of the race.
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I lost all confidence in the accuracy of that when it says HOCKEY is more popular than BASKETBALL. I'm from freaking Michigan (Home of the Red Wings), and hardly anyone here even watches hockey.
I refuse to believe that Basketball is less popular than Hockey in the United States. No freaking way. I know at least 10 basketball fans for every 1 hockey fan, hear about basketball 10x as much as hockey, and see 10x more basketball 'propaganda' than hockey. Probably more.
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the indy 500 is the largest sporting event in the world
While the official attendance is not disclosed by Speedway management, with a permanent seating capacity for more than 257,000 people and infield seating that raises capacity to an approximate 400,000 it is the largest single-day sporting event in the world.[1]
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Yup in America NASCAR is more popular only thing that beats it is superbowl not football just the superbowl...
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and look at how many different forms of auto racing there are.. it captures a wide array of viewers and fans. Ex: nascar, f1, drift...
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I wouldn't invest in any baseball teams I think the MLB is going downhill. I'm surprised by the rate of low basketball supporters (I've always though that sport has spawned the greatest heroes) but I guess the US I live in is only a small part of a whole so I guess NASCAR has its supporters.
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United States13896 Posts
On November 12 2008 12:21 thunk wrote:
I wouldn't invest in any baseball teams I think the MLB is going downhill. I'm surprised by the rate of low basketball supporters (I've always though that sport has spawned the greatest heroes) but I guess the US I live in is only a small part of a whole so I guess NASCAR has its supporters.
Why wouldn't you invest in the MLB? Despite losing fans like crazy, the MLB is more profitable than it ever has been. Every time someone asks Bud Selig about declining interest in the World Series/overall smaller fan base he just whips out the "we made __ billion dollars last year, a record high for the industry" or whatever.
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United States17042 Posts
NASCAR is really popular in middle America, not so much on the coasts.
MLB is doing just fine, I'm not sure that it's either going up or down right now.
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