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MLS equals MLB in popularity with kids
![]() Are MLS players now America’s true “Boys of Summer?” For the first time in the nation’s history, Major League Soccer (inaugural season: 1996) has caught up with Major League Baseball (founded in 1869) in a significant marker of popularity. Both leagues can claim 18 percent of 12-17-year-olds as avid fans of their sport. The startling statistic comes from the 2013 Luker on Trends - ESPN Sports Poll Annual Report -- the complex database that tracks the minutiae of fan habits surrounding 32 major sports, studying how Americans watch, play, buy and express their fandom. This is the very same poll that, in 2012, determined soccer was America's second-most popular sport for those aged 12-24, outstripping the NBA, MLB and college football. |
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this is obama's fault
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Is this another gay thread?
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Better than Nelson
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It's also really popular with fat guys named Zach.
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The Michael Sam and Jason Collins announcements were designed to draw the gay crowd away from MLS.
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In Search of a Life
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I never really got soccer fans obsession with comparing themselves with other sports and trying to show how they're better. If you believe in your product don't worry about the other sports.
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Not with my kid.
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At least the players move around in soccer.
Nothing like watching grown men stand in place for 3 hours grabbing their junk...
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In Search of a Life
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My kids like soccer because they're always running. They won't watch it, though.
Baseball is just as popular as soccer around here, though. Maybe that's just a Texas thing. Parents in north Dallas pour tons of money into their kids little league baseball career. Thousands of dollars. |
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I played both soccer and baseball growing up. In the 80s in rural west virginia.
I didn't think that place could ever be ahead of the curve in anything. |
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Ain't no relax!
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LOL soccer fans constantly trying to justify their sport as being equivalent...
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Looks like the NHL is holding steady in that demographic.
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I'm with the Banned
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This just in: Little kids like Soccer
Sincerely, old news. |
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