NFL considering 18 games and 36 teams

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Spott

I googled most popular professional sport in the US. As far as viewership, soccer was below the 4 major professional team sports. One site combined viewership with the amount of people that played the sport, which put soccer above hockey. I’m guessing that there’s not a lot of Americans south of Michigan, Wisconsin, etc. that have ever played hockey.

Yeah, it's really tough to come up with a ranking that covers all of the different angles. Just spitballing, you could rank a sport's popularity in terms of:

• Percent who are currently active participants
• Percent who have ever actively participated
• Attendance at games (K-12, college, or pro - all different)
• TV viewership
• Ticket revenue
• TV revenue
• Opinion based - forced ranking (e.g., which is your favorite?)
• Opinion based - all that apply (e.g., which do you like?)

I'm sure there are plenty more. It just doesn't make a ton of sense to throw out percentages in a vacuum when we don't know what they mean.