Feb 10, 2024
Football Trumps Baseball as the Most American Sport 🏈
What we’re showing
The results of a Pew survey which asked U.S. adults, “If you had to choose one sport as being “America’s sport,” even if you don’t personally follow it, which sport would it be?”
Results are in line with other sports surveys
According to research by Statista and Elevent, football is also the most popular sporting event to attend live in the U.S. The top five are as follows:
- NFL: 21%
- MLB: 21%
- College football: 16%
- NBA: 16%
- NHL: 9%
Combining NFL and College football sums to 37%. See the Source tab for more details from this study.