Professional Football is Champion as Favorite American Sport

There was a time when I felt baseball was America’s favorite sport and believed that would never change. Much to my surprise it has changed and baseball has now taken a backseat in popularity to professional football. I hope Abner Doubleday can find a way to forgive us all.

A recent poll was conducted by Harris Interactive which consisted of 2,234 adults who were 18 years old and over. Out of that total 1,466 identified themselves as people who follow at least one sport.

During the year there is at least two months when sports fans have the opportunity to watch either football or baseball. According to the Harris Interactive poll over one-third of adults who followed at least one sport said they preferred to watch professional football. Baseball only had only 13 percent of respondents saying it was their favorite sport. Last year 31 percent said professional football was their favorite while 17 percent preferred baseball.

There were other sports that were equally unable to attract the same interest as professional football. Out of the 2,234 people who responded 13 percent said college football was their preference while 8 percent liked auto racing as their favorite. Professional basketball, men’s college basketball and hockey each got 5 percent. All other sports were favorites with 2 percent of respondents.

Within different demographics people aged 30-39 years preferred professional football as well as 46 percent of those with some college. Twenty eight percent of those with a post-graduate education also felt professional football was their favorite sport. When it comes to baseball 21 percent of those who between 50 and 64 mentioned baseball as their favorite sport. Seventeen percent of Easterners were also more likely to say baseball was their favorite sport.

Based on this recent survey the popularity gap between football and baseball it at 23 points, which is the largest it’s ever been.

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