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>>72541 Whereas in Africa, eating comes in 4th and everybody is dead.
In other news, it's actually even worse than>>72540knows (though there are some interesting variations): http://harrisdealerpoll.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=866
Now, of course, all standard caveats apply re: "Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics, LOL" - but in terms of professional leagues, there's a plausible case to be made for the following order:
1) Professional football (by an enormous margin). 2) Professional baseball 3) NASCAR (yeah, yeah "not a sport lulz", I'll believe it as soon as somebody convinces me Cricket is more athletically rigorous - oh, time for tea?). 4) Hockey 5) Pro basketball
Yes, astonishingly, only 4% of those polled named the NBA as their favorite sport, less than the 5% who said so for hockey. This means several things.
1) The NBA is almost certainly still more popular in America given that the poll only asks "most favored" status, without giving weight to other preferred sports. In other words, the NHL has more #1 votes, but I'll bet the NBA got WAY more #2s and #3s - and it's pretty much a given that basketball has a much greater viewership than hockey, both live and on tv.
2) That having been said, during the glory era of the Chicago Bulls the sport had 3x as many 'fans' as it does today. That held strong through 2003 (the general ending of the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty), then plummeted. I do not believe this to be an accident.
3) Bud Selig should be fired (but we all already knew that, I'm sure).
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