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Harris Poll Shows Most Popular Sports in US
Posted on 1/26/14 at 10:33 am
Posted on 1/26/14 at 10:33 am
Not too surprising, but interesting:
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NFL
MLB
College football
Auto racing
NBA
NHL
College basketball
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NFL
MLB
College football
Auto racing
NBA
NHL
College basketball
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Posted on 1/26/14 at 10:34 am to GumBro Jackson
quote:
NFL
MLB
College football
Auto racing
NBA
NHL
College basketball
college baseball
Posted on 1/26/14 at 10:34 am to GumBro Jackson
Nobody likes MLB. It's a dead sport.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 10:34 am to GumBro Jackson
NBA behind auto racing, wow 
Posted on 1/26/14 at 10:35 am to GumBro Jackson
Where is soccer?
Posted on 1/26/14 at 10:35 am to GumBro Jackson
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Auto racing
I thought stock car racing was the most popular sport in the US
Posted on 1/26/14 at 10:38 am to GumBro Jackson
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In 2014, 35 percent of fans call the NFL their favorite sport, followed by Major League Baseball (14 percent), college football (11 percent), auto racing (7 percent), the NBA (6 percent), the NHL (5 percent) and college basketball (3 percent).
In 1985, the first year the poll was taken, the NFL bested MLB by just one percentage point (24 to 23 percent), but since then interest in baseball has fallen while the NFL has experienced a huge rise in popularity.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 10:43 am to GumBro Jackson
damn CBB is really hurting these days
Posted on 1/26/14 at 12:20 pm to GumBro Jackson
Also not surprising:
quote:
those with a high school education or less tend to gravitate to auto racing.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 12:52 pm to GumBro Jackson
quote:
Shows Most Popular Sports in US
this is not correct
it jsut shows the ranking of "#1" sports
for example, i'd imagine many NFL fans have CFB as their #2 sport, and i'd imagine these numbers probably rank ahead of the people who list baseball as 1/2. does that mean MLB or CFB is more popular?
i can totally see how the NBA isn't the #1 sport for many fans, but there is no way it's not more popular than racing. just look at the TV stats
Posted on 1/26/14 at 12:55 pm to GumBro Jackson
Game 6 of the World Series (last game of the MLB season) was watched by less people than the Super Bowl, BCS Championship, NCAA Basketball Championship, and game 7 of the NBA Finals.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 1:48 pm to GumBro Jackson
This is my personal list
1. College Football
2. NFL
3. NBA
4. College Basketball(Im one of those guys who dont watch all year, but come March I'm all in filling out my brackets and everything"
5. MLB(weird because Baseball was once my favorite sport to play, and i enjoy going to baseball games second only to football, but I refuse to watch on tv. Only games Ill watch is a playoff game when nothing else is on tv, and the world series, in the game that actually count
6. NHL: I watch only to see people fight
Auto Racing doesnt deserve a #, you couldnt pay me enough to watch that shite
1. College Football
2. NFL
3. NBA
4. College Basketball(Im one of those guys who dont watch all year, but come March I'm all in filling out my brackets and everything"
5. MLB(weird because Baseball was once my favorite sport to play, and i enjoy going to baseball games second only to football, but I refuse to watch on tv. Only games Ill watch is a playoff game when nothing else is on tv, and the world series, in the game that actually count
6. NHL: I watch only to see people fight
Auto Racing doesnt deserve a #, you couldnt pay me enough to watch that shite
Posted on 1/26/14 at 1:54 pm to GumBro Jackson
This poll shows which sports people said were their favorite. It doesnt take into account that 35% of fans who said the NFL was their favorite might have said college football or the NBA was their second favorite, and listed MLB near the bottom.
Can't rank sports based on this because the study doesnt tell us which sport is the second favorite, third favorite, and so on.
Can't rank sports based on this because the study doesnt tell us which sport is the second favorite, third favorite, and so on.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 2:47 pm to GumBro Jackson
More proof that the NBA and college basketball both suck.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 4:17 pm to GumBro Jackson
This is stupid. It's asking what is your favorite sport.
So if somebody likes the NFL best and the NBA second best, then the NBA doesn't get counted.
This says nothing about the "most popular sports in the U.S." since people can like more than one sport, and the poll isn't taking that into account.
It's only asking which is your favorite.
So if somebody likes the NFL best and the NBA second best, then the NBA doesn't get counted.
This says nothing about the "most popular sports in the U.S." since people can like more than one sport, and the poll isn't taking that into account.
It's only asking which is your favorite.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 4:31 pm to GumBro Jackson
I bet if they asked people to rank the sports in order of how much they watch the list would be quite different
It only asked to vote for your favorite sport, so all the traditional MLB fans are still there to keep them in 2nd
It only asked to vote for your favorite sport, so all the traditional MLB fans are still there to keep them in 2nd
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