Concussions? Deflated balls? Minor suspensions for horrible domestic abuse caught on tape? It’s STILL not enough to slow down the NFL. Harris Interactive just released the results of their annual survey on the most popular sports in America. And as always, pro football came in number one.
33% of people say the NFL is their favorite sport. Major League Baseball came in second, with 15%. Back when the survey started 30 years ago, the NFL only had a one percent lead, 24% to 23%.
College football came in third, with 10%, NASCAR was fourth, with 6%, and the NBA and NHL tied for fifth with 5%. That’s a rough spot for the NBA, which was getting 13% of the vote in the mid ’90s.
The rest of the top 10 are men’s soccer at 4%, men’s college basketball at 4%, men’s golf at 3%, and boxing at 3%.
We assume that boxing got votes from people who are fans of UFC and mixed martial arts, that didn’t get its own category.
