Basketball overtakes baseball as America’s second-favorite sport with soccer gaining

Gallup has been investigating Americans since 1937: Do you like what kind of sports you like most? Football is still a king, but basketball beyond baseball has become the second most popular sports ornament in the United States. But more surprisingly, football is also popular in golf.

37% of Americans consider this a favorite sport, despite football-related controversies, including mistakes in handling the domestic violence and concussion issues of the National Football League. This figure is 6% lower than football height 10 years ago, but still three times the number of respondents who prefer basketball (11%) and baseball (9%).

Over 10 years, basketball has exceeded baseball for the first time, and in the poll of 81 years, the lowest percentage of baseball is preferred. Since the mid-sixties when America's most popular sports catch up, the popularity of baseball has declined steadily.

In the Michael Jordan era, basketball has reached a high level of popularity, and since then the number of polls remains quite stable, except during the decade that football peaked.

According to Gallup, since the car reached this height in 1997, 7% of the American football has been called their favorite football. . In the poll, football is now just 2% behind baseball.

The sports business magazine's 2000 Nielsen rating showed that the median age of American Major League baseball and National Football League players jumped to 57 and 50, respectively, in June. At the same time, the NBA and Major League Soccer fans are more stable at median values ​​42 and 40 respectively.

It is easy to understand why Major League is trying to attract young viewers in a short period of time. These Nielsen numbers do not even reflect digital media. For Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, the average NBA is 29.4 million, NFL is 17.3 million, MLB is 3, and MLS is 3. All these results show that the popularity growth rate of NBA remains stable.

Ben Rohrbach is a writer of Yahoo! Sports. Is there a hint? Please email rohrbach_ben@yahoo.com or follow us on Twitter. To follow

Recent Gallup poll surveyed the most popular sports in the United States, ranked fourth in football, behind football, basketball, baseball. By the end of 2017, 7% of respondents chose football as their favorite, but only 2% of 10 years ago. As in 2007, only 4% of respondents chose hockey. Football is almost the same as basketball and baseball, but football is still an American top sport. In addition, more teenagers than basketball, any other sports.

Gallup has been investigating Americans since 1937: Do you like what kind of sports you like most? Football is still a king, but basketball beyond baseball has become the second most popular sports ornament in the United States. But more surprisingly, football is popular in golf. 37% of Americans consider this a favorite sport, despite football-related controversies, including mistakes in handling the domestic violence and concussion issues of the National Football League. This figure is 6% lower than football height 10 years ago, but still three times the number of respondents who prefer basketball (11%) and baseball (9%).

Soccer is now comparable to the popularity of baseball. I said that 7% is my favorite sport, but so far it is sports sports. Only once at a time, at least 7% of Americans have designated football, basketball or non-baseball sports as their favorite sports - this is the 1997 motor sports. In 2014, NFL star video Ray Ray called my wife and dragged an unconscious body out of the elevator and shocked the country. It has already driven the domestic attacks of the promoted NFL players to national outrage, caused protests and demanded the resignation of NFL Secretary Roger Goodell.