NFL is the #1 most popular sport, MLB is #2 and NBA is #7 behind NCAAF, Soccer, Hockey & AutoRacing

[Kemba]

Maybe all of these sports can be fun to watch, and are all played by incredibly skilled athletes?

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Rekkapryde]

NBA is straight garbage and no one in 'Merica gives 2 f*cks about it.... behind NASCAR breh? C'mon now

http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blo...s-poll-shows-pro-football-still-americas-most



Here's another link in case you jigs dont believe me and i need more people

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10354114/harris-poll-nfl-most-popular-mlb-2nd

Turner, ABC/ESPN would not have given the NBA the new contract they did if this was the case.

Their knowledge >>>>>>>>> some bullshyt poll.

good day.

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

why isn't this guy banned for calling us jigs? mods need to get up on racist lingo

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Do you know how polls work? Or statistics for that matter?

As long as a poll that size randomly selects those participants from all over the country then these results are potentially within a couple of percentage points from the truth.

Don't sweat it basketball because y'all the #2 sport globally.

 

[ORDER_66]

The poll surveyed 2,255 adults

Wanna bet they was all white....

 

[emoney]

The poll was about USA's big 4 sports.

It's really a big 5 now (NFL, NBA, MLS, NHL, MLB)

 

[emoney]

NBA season is too long and playoffs aren't exciting unless it's the last game in a 7 game series

they should shorten the season and make the playoffs just one game like in football

NBA should shorten season to 60 games and make playoffs 1 game (first round), 3 game series (conference semis), 5 game series (conference finals), and 7 game series (NBA finals)

 

[Black Magisterialness]

As already posted through MULTIPLE data sources this poll is erroneous.

First, off the sample size is MUCH too low have a country of over 300 million and don't even sample 3 THOUSAND Absurd...

Second, I'm not gonna say its more popular than the NBA but nikkas sleep on just how many people watch NASCAR black folks is only 12% of the population remember.

Third, MLB is a skewed number always.Only sport where they are playing 100+ games a season easy to make money when you play for 1/3 of the year every other day in the 2nd largest stadiums by sport.

Soccer is going to over take NHL as the 4th most popular sport once MLS gets bigger names from Europe/South America. As it stands its still the retirement league for former Euro stars. But if the numbers from the world cup last year, and the past two English Premier League numbers are an indicator, then yeah, Soccer is going to get popular here. Don't let the US win the Women's World Cup this year.

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

i always found it crazy that the nba is considered more heavily, religiously followed by "urban"/ non-cac fanbase....but every nba home crowd is like 85% cac

 

[IllmaticDelta]

It's really a big 5 now (NFL, NBA, MLS, NHL, MLB)

MLS

http://www.theatlantic.com/business...-have-the-whitest-richest-oldest-fans/283626/

 

[IllmaticDelta]

i always found it crazy that the nba is considered more heavily, religiously followed by "urban"/ non-cac fanbase....but every nba home crowd is like 85% cac

yep...I said that here http://www.thecoli.com/posts/12014350/


The main supporters of the NBA financially speaking are white fans


Race and the NBA: 4 Takeaways from Nate Silver’s Study

4. There are only three NBA teams that don’t have a white majority in their fanbase



According to the numbers, which are only as accurate as the available data allow, those teams are the Memphis Grizzlies (the majority of their fans – 48.7 percent – identify as black), the Washington Wizards (44 percent black), and the Atlanta Hawks (47.8 percent black). There are no teams that have an Asian or Hispanic fan majority, though the Spurs have the largest percentage of Hispanic fans, at 27.7 percent, while the Golden State Warriors boast the largest Asian makeup of a fanbase, with 14.5 percent

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/sports/...aways-from-nate-silvers-study.html/?a=viewall

 

[NoMorePie]

The poll surveyed 2,255 adults

That's most likely 2255 rednecks

 

[UserNameless]

Feb 10 2014


Which Sports Have the Whitest/Richest/Oldest Fans?

The most-watched television event in U.S. history was this year's Super Bowl. The same was true of the Super Bowl in 2012. And in 2011. And in 2010.

But the supermassive audience of the final game is just the capstone on football's monopoly of the little screen. NFL games accounted for 34 of the 35 most-watched TV shows last fall, according to TV by the Numbers. Football dominates the world of sports, and live sports dominates the world of television. It's no wonder, then, that the Super Bowl stands apart from the rest of television like a Petronas Tower airlifted into a suburb.

Although sports account for just barely 1 percent of all TV programming, it accounts for 7 percent of the total cost of pay-TV, and 50 percent of the of Tweets about television, according to Nielsen's 2013 Year in Sports Media Report. We can go on and on about how sports programming has become central to the business model of live cable TV (and therefore a central driver of the cost of cable), but that's for another day.

Today, let's look at TV demographics. Yes, the NFL is the most-watched sport. But which sport's audience is richest? Whitest? Youngest? Fortunately, Nielsen tracks that data, too. First some highlights, then the graphs. (Note: Nielsen's survey figures are heavy on older, whiter audiences, since they're more likely to own a television and pay for cable.)

• The NBA has the youngest audience, with 45 percent of its viewers under 35. It also has the highest share of black viewers, at 45 percent—three times higher than the NFL or NCAA basketball.
  
• Major League Baseball shares the most male-heavy audience, at 70 percent, with the NBA.
  
• The NHL audience is the richest of all professional sports. One-third of its viewers make more than $100k, compared to about 19 percent of the general population.
  
• Nascar's audience has the highest share of women (37 percent) and highest share of white people (94 percent).
  
• The Professional Golfers Association has the oldest audience by multiple measures: smallest share of teenagers; smallest share of 20- and early 30-somethings; and highest share of 55+ (twice as high, in the oldest demo, as the NBA or Major League Soccer).
  
• Major League Soccer has the highest share of Hispanics by far (34 percent; second is the NBA at 12 percent) and the lowest income of any major sports audience. Nearly 40 percent of its fans make less than $40k.
  
• The NCAA demographics for football and basketball are practically identical but they are surprising old (about 40% over 55+) and surprisingly white (about 80%), which clearly has as much to do with who owns a TV rather than who follows the sports.

To close with a random but delightful stat from the report: Denmark's Handball Men’s Championship on DR1 was watched by nearly 80 percent of the country's TVs.


The graph confirms

1.NFL
2.NBA
3.MLB
4.NHL

Where's the NFL demo?

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

i always found it crazy that the nba is considered more heavily, religiously followed by "urban"/ non-cac fanbase....but every nba home crowd is like 85% cac

Just like Hip Hop