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<blockquote data-quote="fcukernaut" data-source="post: 112670"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("O'Rothlain")</div></p><p></p><p>Your list is almost completely wrong, if you're talking popularity. NFL is by far the number one amongst traditional sports. NASCAR is number two on the list. It is very, very close to the NFL. Don't believe me? Look at the TV contracts. NASCAR and the NFL are the only sports with a $4billion TV deal. After that Baseball is next and they just signed a gigantic TV deal as well, which places them comfortably at number 3. Basketball also makes a serious indent into the American market. They are pretty close to baseball. After those big 4 it's a complete and utter drop off. (Ice) Hockey took a massive nose dive and are a complete laughing stock. It's farcical to even think that SI 10 years ago had said Hockey would overtake basketball in terms of popularity. To give you a perspective hockey and soccer draw lower audience figures than poker, so they are pretty well irrelevant.</p><p></p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("Canadian Rugger")</div></p><p></p><p>I don't know about that. There are more Canadians than there ever have been in MLB and attendance at Jays games are up from previous years.</p><p></p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("Rugby Cymru")</div></p><p></p><p>There are only 30million people in Canada, we'd never have the focus or the interest to be a top nation at soccer.</p><p></p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(O'Rothlian")</div></p><p></p><p>No, it's whatever sport makes money Americans can dominate at. Without the multi-million contracts you will never attract all those potentially great athletes in the ghetto. That's why the future of rugby in America depends greatly on how the grassroots rugby programs in the NYC ghettos works out. Without that USA is forever doomed to mediocrity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fcukernaut, post: 112670"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("O'Rothlain")</div> Your list is almost completely wrong, if you're talking popularity. NFL is by far the number one amongst traditional sports. NASCAR is number two on the list. It is very, very close to the NFL. Don't believe me? Look at the TV contracts. NASCAR and the NFL are the only sports with a $4billion TV deal. After that Baseball is next and they just signed a gigantic TV deal as well, which places them comfortably at number 3. Basketball also makes a serious indent into the American market. They are pretty close to baseball. After those big 4 it's a complete and utter drop off. (Ice) Hockey took a massive nose dive and are a complete laughing stock. It's farcical to even think that SI 10 years ago had said Hockey would overtake basketball in terms of popularity. To give you a perspective hockey and soccer draw lower audience figures than poker, so they are pretty well irrelevant. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("Canadian Rugger")</div> I don't know about that. There are more Canadians than there ever have been in MLB and attendance at Jays games are up from previous years. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("Rugby Cymru")</div> There are only 30million people in Canada, we'd never have the focus or the interest to be a top nation at soccer. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(O'Rothlian")</div> No, it's whatever sport makes money Americans can dominate at. Without the multi-million contracts you will never attract all those potentially great athletes in the ghetto. That's why the future of rugby in America depends greatly on how the grassroots rugby programs in the NYC ghettos works out. Without that USA is forever doomed to mediocrity. [/QUOTE]
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