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Originally Posted by Spott
I googled most popular professional sport in the US. As far as viewership, soccer was below the 4 major professional team sports. One site combined viewership with the amount of people that played the sport, which put soccer above hockey. I’m guessing that there’s not a lot of Americans south of Michigan, Wisconsin, etc. that have ever played hockey.
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Yeah, it's really tough to come up with a ranking that covers all of the different angles. Just spitballing, you could rank a sport's popularity in terms of:
- Percent who are currently active participants
- Percent who have ever actively participated
- Attendance at games (K-12, college, or pro - all different)
- TV viewership
- Ticket revenue
- TV revenue
- Opinion based - forced ranking (e.g., which is your favorite?)
- Opinion based - all that apply (e.g., which do you like?)
I'm sure there are plenty more. It just doesn't make a ton of sense to throw out percentages in a vacuum when we don't know what they mean.