Question for people in the UK

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Sports in UK in order of popularity (OptimusWolfs own opinion)

Football
cricket
rugby union
tennis
F1
golf
boxing
rugby league
snooker

This is predominantly judged on a "who is more likely to win sports personality of the year" type test of mainstream popularity.

Rugby league gets plenty of fans in the north but in the mainstream nobody cares. cricket gets relatively few fans but everybody knows what is going on.

(Association) Football is by far the most popular sport, and so it should be, it is the greatest fusion of athleticism and skill in any sport. Boxing is probably a close second and thats why I love them.

Rugby Union is more popular then Cricket.

[OptimusWolf]

I'm not convinced, but it's certainly quite close. I remember the ashes 05 where everybody was watching and no work was being done in London. Hardly anyone got up for the famous rugby union final.

I love them both personally. The ones on the list I'm not so keen on are F1, golf and rugby ;eague

[Wales08]

NFL is **** in my opinion but i love baseball, cant get enough of it. Boston Red Sox i decided to be 3 years ago. 10,000 fans at Wembley were from US for the NFL.
I find it very boring but so is baseball!

[The_Visitation]

From Wiki answers:

Skills needed to become an NFL Player

******ity seems to be another one...

Only kidding...

[Benny Leonard]

NFL is **** in my opinion but i love baseball, cant get enough of it. Boston Red Sox i decided to be 3 years ago. 10,000 fans at Wembley were from US for the NFL.
I find it very boring but so is baseball!

Really?

Did you have to watch the Great Baseball Movies to get started or did you just jump right into it by watching a game?

[hammerhiem]

Did you have to watch the Great Baseball Movies to get started or did you just jump right into it by watching a game?

When I was in Norfolk a couple of years back I made an effort to watch as much sport as I could. I managed 3 Tides games, and 2 Admirals games.

I never really enjoyed the baseball, I found it boring and overly long, the Icehockey was awesome.

[Benny Leonard]

******ity seems to be another one...

Only kidding...

Same could be argued for boxing. People that want to participate in a game that has the ability to make them a cripple.

There is a college player named Myron Rolle that has to decide if he wants to go Pro {NFL} or take the Rhodes scholarship he won that will allow him to continue on his path to become a neurosurgeon. So what will he now decide to do: go to the NFL or go with the all-expense paid scholarship for two or three years of study at Oxford University in England?

The choices Men make

[The Gully Gad]

The BBC show bowls because the BBC sucks and has no real sports anymore, they don't even show england rugby or football matches.

I'm talking about SKY a dedicated sports channel that has contracts for both NFL and boxing.

Why do we pay for a TV licence again?

For BBC 1 and BBC 2

And you lose Hammer! lol
Sky you cant count that.
Im talking in general no way is it popular then boxing..

Like i said theres dedicated channels to bingo on sky
you gonna tell me bingo is more popular?

[The Gully Gad]

He ain't saying it is more popular but NFL today as been on sky allday. It was on from 11am til 7ish today. Boxing was on skysports 1 for 30mins before. NFL gets alot more television time on sky than boxing does on Setanta, bbc and Sky put together.

Originally Posted by hammerhiem
It get more air time and probably more viewers than Boxing does on Sky sadly.

If that aint trying to say its more popular i dont know what is..
Smack my arse and tell me i have ginger hair

[hammerhiem]

For BBC 1 and BBC 2

When did the BBC last show any boxing? 1980's? When has the BBC ever shown any NFL games? Never to my knowledge.

So if your arguement is solely about Terrestrial TV i'll step out since I only watch it if it's Boxing on ITV or football that isn't availible on the far superior SKY coverage.