• tal
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    5 months ago

    Soccer’s more popular now than it was then, but even today it’s far-less popular in the US than in a number of other countries, and considerably less popular than the “big” sports.

    kagis

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/610046/football-retains-dominant-position-favorite-sport.aspx

    41% of American adults have football (this is American football, not soccer) as their favorite sport.

    10% baseball.

    9% basketball

    5% soccer

    4% ice hockey

    3% auto racing

    2% ice/figure skating

    And the stuff below that is 1% or less.

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      5 months ago

      After finding out rugby, I could not for the life of me understand why people prefer gridiron football. It is so slow and only occasionally interrupted with action.

      How many americans have played in a soccer team as a child though? I wonder how that would shift the statistics.