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Viewing numbers are more important than playing. Besides, you make generally assumptions about continents. In Asia, the big rich countries play baseball (Japan, Taiwan, South Korea), in Europe, there's many countries which are more famous for their hockey than their soccer (Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia), and of course the USA and Canada would watch hockey over soccer easily. In the Carribbean, baseball and cricket is more important, in South Africa, India, Australia you've got cricket combined with some 1B sports.
American Football is a regional sport. It's only greatly popular in the US (Might gain some more populairty if the NFL expands to London and Mexico city but there's not much more prospects than that).
Cute. Lmk when any of those will come even remotely close to this:
"Unsurprisingly the competition’s most-watched match was the final between Spain and the Netherlands, which reached 619.7 million in-home viewers based on those watching at least 20 consecutive minutes of coverage. This figure, however, rises to 909.6 million viewers based on watching over one minute and is likely to have surpassed one billion when out-of-home viewers are included. Indeed, all the figures cited do not include people watching out-of-home at the FIFA Fan Fests and other public viewing venues, as well as in pubs, bars, restaurants, clubs, hotels, or even online and via mobile handsets"
And that my good sir is just one game.
This post was edited by vygax on Mar 7 2013 03:31pm
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