Which is more popular: boxing or American football?

[Biolink]

thats nice. im not getting into my dad would beat your dad arguments!!!!!!!!

You started it though with your trollbait argument.

Comparing Rugby and American Football is apples to oranges.

[Grimgash]

I believe it's the football (soccer) World Cup final, although that is every 4 years while the Super Bowl is every year (?)



I would have thought the latino and italian communities in the US would take an interest in 'futbol'. It's obviously well behind the other major US sports though I agree.

Yeah the super bowl is every year. Though latino and italian americans really put a lot into the big three. Latino communities in the US are HUGE on baseball, they dominate baseball really. Italians are big into football. Soccer is played here but generally minus world cup years you rarely hear about it, and american leagues are not even really relevant.

In terms of coverage from ESPN you're more likely to see highlights from a euro soccer league than even the american ones.

Put it this way, in american high schools if you play one of the big three you're a jock, and fairly well known. Playing soccer is on par with running track, or cross country no one really follows it. When I was in highschool our team went to the state championships and rarely anyone ever cared enough to watch them play, but any other sport you'd have a huge showing regardless of record (though we we're good at all three back then).

Hell I'll be even more blunt about the popularity of sports... you're more likely to see a highschool football game on espn then a MLS game...that's just how vast the difference is here.

[Grimgash]

One more thing to put it in perspective for America's viewership.

http://deadspin.com/5925758/here-are-the-50-most+watched-sporting-events-of-2012-football-owns-america

Read the article and you'll see my guess on championship viewing earlier was spot on. (I'm good at these figure guessing from just knowing my friends and family)

[The Tase]

thats nice. im not getting into my dad would beat your dad arguments!!!!!!!!

you're the one that started it.

ironic you're from manchester and you have a hatton and floyd avi,

that's how it would go athletically if nfl vs rugby ever happened.

[shade darkar]

You started it though with your trollbait argument.

Comparing Rugby and American Football is apples to oranges.

wasnt an argument. it was an opinion. not my fault if you dont like it.

[shade darkar]

you're the one that started it.

ironic you're from manchester and you have a hatton and floyd avi,

that's how it would go athletically if nfl vs rugby ever happened.

is it? brilliant.

i didnt start anything. nobody told you to reply.

[jtcs1981]

No one in the states cares about futbol. The only time you will ever hear someone say see that soccer match is during the world cup. It's like the olympics. No one gives a damn about that **** except once every 4 years and in america the only reason olympics gets as much hype as it does is because of basketball to be honest.

I think the superbowl is the most watched sporting event even globally though overall soccer is the biggest world wide, with american football second. He'll even england wants a football team (american) to play in the NFL.

If you're trying to compare Football to Boxing the US its not even remotely close, theres not a single sport in the US that can touch football atm.

US list probably looks like this...

Football
Basketball
Baseball
Hockey
Boxing

Though for championships (as far as I recall):

Football
Baseball
Basketball
Hockey
Boxing

To compare it to soccer, as a lot of fathers tell their kids in America...
Soccer is for foreigners and ****. (not saying that to be mean, but it's a fairly well known quote here)

The bold is not correct. But I can partially agree with the rest.

[The Tase]

is it? brilliant.

i didnt start anything. nobody told you to reply.

yea you did.

i told myself to reply.

[shade darkar]

yea you did.

i told myself to reply.

ok, dont get your knickers in a twist and move on!

[The Tase]

ok, dont get your knickers in a twist and move on!

my knickers are just fine. i think you should heed your own advice.