Baseball vs. Soccer: popularity in the US

Hockey is a sport I can only enjoy during the Olympics and, at times, during the NHL playoffs.

The Olympics because they use a wider rink, so the game is a bit more open and free-flowing. Playoff hockey because it feels a little more intense.

 

Hockey live trumps all on tv or live.

Football is the worst live. I went to 2 games at autzen stadium... I was bored out of my mind. and on tv it's even worse.

 

25- soccer vehemently over baseball.

 

I agree with a lot of this. I still love baseball playoffs and I think it would be shown that TV ratings for the world series is still high.

Personally I don't mind a 3 hr game if it is the post season with all the buzz in the air. But I really don't have time anymore to go to a regular season game for 3 hrs plus.

As far as the vote: 40's something who still puts baseball over soccer (because I grew up playing and watching baseball and idolizing baseball players).

But 10-20 yrs ago I could barely watch a soccer game and now I can get into a soccer game (non-stop action) and I can barely watch a whole baseball game unless post-season or something special about the game.

 

17. Baseball is the best sport in the world and soccer is for old people.

 

Baseball will be eclipsed by Cricket. "Football" is going down to Soccer in the near future. Especially when they sissify it just cuz every ex-player becomes a vegetable in 5 years.

 

I'm 31 and have been pro baseball my whole life.

 

Any way you spell it, futbol is and always will be boring.

Boring to watch and boring to play.

As America quickly becomes North Mexico, so rises the popularity of lying, cheating, stealing, and watching futbol.

 

Agreed.

 

Professional American Football, as we know it, will be outlawed in the next decade or so due to the obvious brain damage it causes. Some version of flag football is what it will morph into.

 

Football will be done in 20 years. Book it.

 

Watching soccer is like watching someone else play Pong.

 

24 and don't really care about either sport, but i guess i'm a casual baseball fan. The difference is though if we got a baseball team here i'd try to watch them, but i just don't care about the Timbers at all, and i tried.

 

Yeah? And what's baseball like?

I'm 22, played baseball for 6 years and soccer for none (football for 9). I'm 100% pro-soccer, haven't watched
a single baseball game in years. It's as boring as watching golf to me. Soccer is infinitely more exciting. I follow the MLS, the English Premier League and the Champions League.

 

I just don't see it. I've heard this argument before and I simply don't see football dying off. People do things that are just as dangerous, if not more dangerous. I used to ski as a child, and you can't tell me football is any more dangerous than competitive skiing.

 

I also doubt football is going anywhere in our lifetimes. I think the rules will continue to adapt to counter the fact that players move faster, while larger, and hit harder over time. So the game will change, but I sincerely doubt it's going to end nor do I think it will end up a non-contact sport. Rules regarding targeting the head and using the head as a weapon have been implemented and will likely continue to evolve.