26.01.2018 Basketball has overtaken baseball as a favorite sport No. 2 in the US

America`s favorite ever-game -;baseball, is third in the hearts of sports fans in the US. This shows the results of Gallup`s most recent sociological survey among United States residents.

Since 1937, the company has been conducting an annual survey on `Who is your favorite sport to watch? `. Until 1972, baseball was invariably No. 1, then retreated to the top of American football and for almost five decades was the second most loved sport.



In 2017, however, for the first time under the No. 2 basketball. Even more curious is that under No. 4 there is now the so-called `juke`, which is very popular with the ball and the bat. Despite the many NFL scandals, 37% of Americans point out the local version of football as their favorite sport. Although it has fallen by 6% over the last decade, interest in the game remains more than three times higher than basketball (11%) and baseball (9%). The baseball rate is the lowest in the 81-year history of the poll.




It`s noteworthy that 7% of Americans point out European football as their most preferred sport for watching. This is the highest interest in any sport outside the Top 3 after 1997, when the same rate is reached by motoring. Another study in June 2017 found that the average age of MLB fans had reached 57 years, and that of NFL fans;50 years. For comparison, the average age of NBA lovers is 42 years, and those of MLS -;40 years old In the social networks, the absolute champion is the basketball with an average 29, 4 million followers in Twitter, Facebook and Insogramm, while American football has 17, 3 million, baseball -;6, 3 million, and the juice -;2, 3 million