Americans Love the NFL, But Change Is Looming

Source: Statista

While Baseball is often referred to as “America’s favorite pastime”, the NFL has long surpassed the MLB as the nation’s favorite professional sports league. For several reasons, including first and foremost its better suitability for television, football flew by baseball as Americans’ favorite sport to watch in the 1960s and hasn’t looked back since. In recent years, baseball has even been surpassed by basketball, as younger audiences prefer the action-packed, star-studded NBA over what many young viewers consider the dragging affair of a three-hour baseball game.

According to recent findings from Statista’s Global Consumer Survey, the NFL remains the number 1 among major professional sports leagues in the U.S., at least for now. While 52 percent of self-declared sports fans follow the National Football League, compared to 42 percent for the NBA and 31 percent who follow the MLB, looking at the youngest group of respondents reveals a worrying trend for NFL executives. Among 16- to 25-year-olds, the NFL only plays second fiddle to the NBA, with just 33 percent of young sports fans following the league. The NBA reaches 40 percent of Gen X fans, who are overall less likely to follow any professional sports leagues than their older compatriots.

Americans Love the NFL, But Change Is Looming

Tottenham Fan Podcast Focus: The Fighting Cock

The Fighting Cock - LargeToday’s Fan Podcast Focus is The Fighting Cock, a Tottenham podcast hosted by Flav.

It’s not a six year old bottle of Kentucky Bourbon whiskey. It’s not an adult pay-site for men. And it’s nothing Peta should be worried about. The Fighting Cock is a Tottenham Hotspur podcast, Website and fanzine.

It plays out in pubs and cafes all over the country no matter the club you follow. It’s as much about football as celebrating a goal, or singing your heart out in the stands. Talking about football is fulfilling, it eases the pain of a heart wrenching defeat and makes reliving past glories that extra bit special when shared.
Recording that, releasing it on the internet and allowing (hopefully) thousands of fellow yids to listen in…well it seemed like an excellent thing to do. It’s not original, but done right it can be genuinely unique. Or at the very least different from what’s out there right now.

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