Poll on Americans' favorite sports/What is sj.com's favorite sport?

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It's no surprise that a Harris Interactive poll shows that the pro football is the most popular, but its lead over baseball (in percentage saying it was their favorite sport) has dropped from last year's 33-14 lead to 29-14.

The top 10:
Pro football 29, baseball 14, college football 13, auto racing 9, men's pro basketball 7, men's college basketball 5, men's golf 4, hockey 4, men's soccer 3, men's tennis 2.

The poll results are here: http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=719

And a good analysis of it is here: http://sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com/2007/01/popularity-contest.html

Two interesting results:

# African Americans: highest number of pro football fans (35%) and the lowest number of college football fans (7%). As many likely already know, African Americans also make up the smallest number of baseball fans (7%).
# Liberals: largest number of baseball fans (20%), twice the amount of Conservative baseball lovers (10%). Liberals also make up the smallest number of NASCAR fans (4%).

Remembering some of Crash Davis' lines in "Bull Durham" makes me wonder which pitches liberals prefer as opposed to conservatives.

 

[alleyallen]

Re: Poll on Americans' favorite sports

My list of favorites changes over time. College football used to be really low on the list (the NBA was actually higher, at one point) but now it's probably number three or four and the NBA is at or near the bottom.

 

[Claws for Concern]

Re: Poll on Americans' favorite sports

Hockey is tops for me, followed by pro football, golf, college football and baseball.

 

[ondeadline]

Re: Poll on Americans' favorite sports

My list:
Tied for first: Hockey and college basketball; third, baseball; fourth, college football; fifth, pro football; sixth, pro basketball; seventh, women's tennis.

OK, I added a poll so we can determine out SportsJournalists.com's favorite sport.

 

[Angola!]

Re: Poll on Americans' favorite sports

MLB
College football
NFL
College basketball
NBA
Golf
MLS

The others I tend to change the channel if they come on.

 

[Jason Haupricht]

MLB
NFL
College Football
Cycling
Golf
College Basketball
NBA
NHL
Auto Racing
high school/college wrestling

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Baseball
College Football
NFL
Everything else.

 

[statrat]

Why the hell is Cricket not on this list!?!?!?!?
http://www.usaca.org/

 

[Starving Journalist]

College Basketball-March Madness is the greatest sports playoff system ever
Pro Football-Close second
Basketball
College Football
Baseball
Hockey

 

[Oz]

I voted college football, but it could have just as easily been pro. Either way, football for me.

 

[ondeadline]

Why the hell is Cricket not on this list!?!?!?!?
http://www.usaca.org/

OK, it's on there now.

 

[FuerteJ]

College football
college basketball
Pro football
Golf
everything else.

then again, I grew up in the deep south. very few pro sports franchises near me, the Saints being the only one. I love the Saints, but I didn't have much to cheer for growing up (though there were good teams in the late 80s/early 90s there). Pro football is climbing on my list, though.