Auto Racing the favorite sport of few Americans

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Which is your favorite sport to follow?

Football
Baseball
Basketball
Hockey
Soccer
Auto racing
Tennis
Golf
Some other sport

Not sure

Okay, so that's how it was asked. Where did Auto racing fall?

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of sports fans finds that 53% say football is their favorite sport to follow. Baseball comes in a distant second with 16% support, while basketball is the favorite of 11%. Six percent (6%) of Americans prefer hockey, with no other sport including soccer, auto racing, golf and tennis reaching five percent (5%).

I wonder if it's just the wording? Do you think Auto racing would have gotten more responses if they had called it NASCAR? Probably not but damn, not even five percent?

Mine in order would have been.....

Football/Auto racing - tied for me, both are great IMO
Hockey
Basketball - if it's NCAA - no the the NBA
Baseball
Golf - if it's a Major
Soccer/Tennis - Is that even televised?

From here.
 
Racing by far would be my #1. Football would be my #2. Soccer and tennis don't even exist in my little world:D
 
My favorites

-Auto Racing (Nascar foremost, but almost all forms)
-Ama motocross
-Football
-cheerleading
-Baseball
-Women's beach volleyball
-Women tennis only with Maria Sharapova quality type babes. I draw the line if the women look they are stronger and like they severely could beat the fool out of me. Those Williams guys don't do anything for me.
-Women's figure skating.
-Women's gymnastics
-Women's pole voting
-Women's yoga
-Women's surfing
-Women's competitive sunbathing
-Women's mud wrestling
-Women's running, jogging, walking, jumping, standing, sitting breathing.

Some soccer my wife likes to watch the men.
 
My favorites

-Women's beach volleyball
-Women tennis only with Maria Sharapova quality type babes. I draw the line if the women look they are stronger and like they severely could beat the fool out of me. Those Williams guys don't do anything for me.
-Women's figure skating.
-Women's gymnastics
-Women's pole voting
-Women's yoga
-Women's surfing
-Women's competitive sunbathing
-Women's mud wrestling
-Women's running, jogging, walking, jumping, standing, sitting breathing.

Now you've got me rethinking my first response.
 
Which is your favorite sport to follow?

Football
Baseball
Basketball
Hockey
Soccer
Auto racing
Tennis
Golf
Some other sport
Not sure

Okay, so that's how it was asked. Where did Auto racing fall?

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of sports fans finds that 53% say football is their favorite sport to follow. Baseball comes in a distant second with 16% support, while basketball is the favorite of 11%. Six percent (6%) of Americans prefer hockey, with no other sport including soccer, auto racing, golf and tennis reaching five percent (5%).

I wonder if it's just the wording? Do you think Auto racing would have gotten more responses if they had called it NASCAR? Probably not but damn, not even five percent?

Mine in order would have been.....

Football/Auto racing - tied for me, both are great IMO
Hockey
Basketball - if it's NCAA - no the the NBA
Baseball
Golf - if it's a Major
Soccer/Tennis - Is that even televised?

From here.

Racing: 90%
Football: 10%

Are those other things you mentioned sports? Who woulda thunk.
 
racing
baseball
hockey
football
 
Auto Racing - not just NA$$CAR
Basketball - NBA mainly but I like Men's NCAA Hoops too
MLB / NFL - mainly the playoffs
 
The only sport I follow or watch on TV with any interest is auto racing.
 
Almost all forms of motor sports, excluding drag racing. My attention span is too short to watch drag.:p

NFL football, no college.

Golf is good background noise, especially if I'm taking a nap. The 'Get in the hole!' guy should be shot.

Soccer or maybe hockey, if golf isn't on and there are no birds at the feeder.
 
Racing - most kinds
Football
Baseball
lost interest in Hockey when the NorthStar went to Dallas but still watch the high school hockey tournament - big deal here in Minnesota.
Woman's Hurdles
 
Which is your favorite sport to follow?

Football
Baseball
Basketball
Hockey
Soccer
Auto racing
Tennis
Golf
Some other sport
Not sure

Okay, so that's how it was asked. Where did Auto racing fall?

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of sports fans finds that 53% say football is their favorite sport to follow. Baseball comes in a distant second with 16% support, while basketball is the favorite of 11%. Six percent (6%) of Americans prefer hockey, with no other sport including soccer, auto racing, golf and tennis reaching five percent (5%).

I wonder if it's just the wording? Do you think Auto racing would have gotten more responses if they had called it NASCAR? Probably not but damn, not even five percent?

Mine in order would have been.....

Football/Auto racing - tied for me, both are great IMO
Hockey
Basketball - if it's NCAA - no the the NBA
Baseball
Golf - if it's a Major
Soccer/Tennis - Is that even televised?

From here.

Rasmussen Reports :XXROFL:

The EPL is going to be on NBC next year :)
 
Nascar
Open Wheel racing
Downhill Sking
Golf
Football
Baseball
 
You know a great sport cricket, I listen to the BBC while at work and they start talking cricket scores...somehow its still a competitive game when your down 195 runs...?
 
Out of my 50 or so closest friends only 1 of them likes racing. :( They find it odd that it's my favorite sport.

I don't have ONE friend that has enough interest in Nascar to watch a race. Although some do ask me who won on any given weekend but they're probably just being polite and/or trying to distract me from whatever I've was rambling about at the time.

So, the only place I have to argue Nascar is on here :D
 
Serve up a big spread, the friends will show up for the race.
If you sit and watch the race you get unlimited grilled burgers and beer, Presto, full house of race fans.
 
Serve up a big spread, the friends will show up for the race.

My friend's wife seems to be ready and willing to serve up a big spread at any given moment. Maybe I can recruit her for the Daytona 500. I'll have it at my house because we'll need the space and seating.
 
My friend's wife seems to be ready and willing to serve up a big spread at any given moment. Maybe I can recruit her for the Daytona 500. I'll have it at my house because we'll need the space and seating.
When they all get their guts full of good grub and are reaching for the desert they will have a hard time arguing with you when you say "NASCAR is really fun to watch".
 
Do ya think that he is the same guy who used to hold up the John 3 -16 sign at every hole ?
Nah, the 3:16 guy was merely flashy, not obnoxious. I was wondering about him during a football game a couple of weeks ago. Someone held up a 3;16 sign, but it couldn't have been the original man because he didn't have a rainbow afro wig.
 
In case I hasn't mentioned it: some quality and proactivly dressed trophy queens would help. Everybody loves them even the little boys to young to spell it out intrinsically sense the angelic presence.
As a boy all I needed was a good race, a coker-coler (kolkhlor), a puppy , and some smoking hot trophy queens, the formula still works.
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Nah, the 3:16 guy was merely flashy, not obnoxious. I was wondering about him during a football game a couple of weeks ago. Someone held up a 3;16 sign, but it couldn't have been the original man because he didn't have a rainbow afro wig.

The original guys name was Rollen Stewart, ESPN did this story about him a few years ago.
 
Nah, the 3:16 guy was merely flashy, not obnoxious. I was wondering about him during a football game a couple of weeks ago. Someone held up a 3;16 sign, but it couldn't have been the original man because he didn't have a rainbow afro wig.

I wonder what he used to spend in tickets each year .Probably bankrupted him.:D
 
I think one of the main reasons that stick and ball sports are so populer is because that is what a lot of fans have been around from the time they were in school and they can relate to stick and ball sports a little better. I think it takes a pretty special fan to go outside of the box and follow motorsports.
My favorite sport or racing is... / Nascar / Drag Racing / Indy Cars / Sprint Cars / Drag Boats / Football
My favorite events are the......../ Indy 500 / Daytona 500 / Super Bowl / US Nationals / Kings Royal / Chili Bowl
 
I think one of the main reasons that stick and ball sports are so populer is because that is what a lot of fans have been around from the time they were in school and they can relate to stick and ball sports a little better. I think it takes a pretty special fan to go outside of the box and follow motorsports.
My favorite sport or racing is... / Nascar / Drag Racing / Indy Cars / Sprint Cars / Drag Boats / Football
My favorite events are............../ Indy 500 / Daytona 500 / Super Bowl / US Nationals / Kings Royal / Chili Bowl

Try to make the Snowball Derby next year and you may repriortize your favorite events. :D
 
I think one of the main reasons that stick and ball sports are so populer is because that is what a lot of fans have been around from the time they were in school and they can relate to stick and ball sports a little better.
Yeah, it's easier to develop loyalties and interests when you have teams playing 8 to 80+ games annually in your backyard.
 
Notice that the top sports are all team-centric and generally represent a city. Although NASCAR can be viewed as a team sport (pit crews and what not), it just isn't perceived that way. Also, when your team represents an entire city, you're going to have a loyal group of fans regardless of the sport.
 
Notice that the top sports are all team-centric and generally represent a city. Although NASCAR can be viewed as a team sport (pit crews and what not), it just isn't perceived that way. Also, when your team represents an entire city, you're going to have a loyal group of fans regardless of the sport.
Someday NASCAR will probably end up being franchised like most other major sports and what you stated will become the case.
 
Someday NASCAR will probably end up being franchised like most other major sports and what you stated will become the case.
I recall Bruton tried to put something like that together about a decade ago. It was a 'league' with two-car teams supposedly from cities that coincidentally happened to have SMI tracks. In reality they would have all been based in Charlotte. 'TRAC', I think it was called. It went nowhere.

Oh yeah, here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Racing_Auto_Circuit. I was mistaken; Bruton wasn't involved.
 
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