favorite of the big four american team sports

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more specifically: "which of these following sports do you enjoy watching the most?"

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american football 36
basketball 32
baseball 30
hockey 16


iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:49 (seventeen years ago)

music

tuppence d bag (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

"beisbol...been bedy bedy good...to me"

resistance is feudal (WmC), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

I know that hockey is traditionally categorized as one of the "big four" American sports, but I wouldn't be surprised if NASCAR has overtaken it in popularity.

Baseball is the only one of the four that I follow closely, although I'm kind of a fair weather NFL fan if a team I like is doing particularly well.

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

NASCAR is more popular than all of these but the NFL I think? it's just not a sport.

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

football is so much better 2 watch altho im a bigger "fan" of baseball if that makes sense

johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

Baseball regular season vs. Basketball post-season for me.

Alex in SF, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

Heh, yeah, if you divide it up like that Hockey's post season might be the best of all.

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

I don't watch any sports but I enjoy playing baseball the most. I know that's not what was asked.

cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

baseball > football > basketball > hockey

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

why do you guys have to make this so difficult????

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

cause it ain't all one thing or the other, Rorschach

resistance is feudal (WmC), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

too hard. football is probably the most outright enjoyable and the best for watching on tv/chilling with friends/arguing/playing fantasy. i know the most about baseball, and in a lot of ways it's the most complex/interesting/"deep." i've played the most basketball, it was my favorite when i was a kid, i still get worked up about it in a way i don't about the others. i don't have much history with hockey but it's cool too!

Is because I think a lot of the music you like is flowery? (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

(sorry, that came out meaner than intended)

resistance is feudal (WmC), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

Hockey. The rest can die in a fire.

But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

haha it made me laugh so don't worry

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

oh and I voted football

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

basket > foot > hock > watching paint > base

Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

SB'd you for that

resistance is feudal (WmC), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

I don't really watch sports that often, but I enjoy following baseball the most.

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

it's baseball for me. i like the relaxed atmosphere, matches take ages, the world championship in the Netherlands in '05 had this doing nothing on a summer's evening vibe. some good movies about baseball too, can't recall a good movie about any of the others (wait Space Jam) as a small guy i dislike basketball for obvious reasons (that's another + for baseball, these guys same to be of all sizes, even fat!)
hockey is great on consoles (Mallrats!), but sort of useless on tv.
American Football is probably the worst sport ever. Ever ever.

Ludo, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

but all 4 don't come close to the 3 best sports: road cycling, football ("soccer")& tennis

Ludo, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

Tennis does pwn all of these for me. Sometimes golf, too.

Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

When will it be possible to suggest ban someone from America?

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:36 (seventeen years ago)

I now hate baseball the way a neocon hates liberals: I just loved it too much to maintain my relationship in light of 1994. And going to Notre Dame a few later made me ripe for radical conversation. So for me it's now

football >> basketball >>> hockey >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> baseball

dulce est desipere in loco (Euler), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

football>basketball>baseball>hockey

Arvo Party (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

NASCAR is more popular than all of these but the NFL I think? it's just not a sport.

― iatee, Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:54 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^not really true...nascar's been having a lot of problems lately, i think its ambitions to be dominating national sport were misplaced...lots of sponsors have dropped out and lots of teams are hurting financially...think rating's are down too.

Arvo Party (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

(though i'd imagine it's still way more popular than NHL)

Arvo Party (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

oh yeah, I remember reading something about that.

still not a sport, tho.

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

Basketball - Playoffs/NCAA Tournament>NFL>College Basketball Regular Season>>>>hockey>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>baseball.

I will never turn down tickets for anything, though.

Two Will Get You Three (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 20:06 (seventeen years ago)

Wtf was that, Ronaldo?

Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 20:17 (seventeen years ago)

i prob enjoy watching (be it on TV or in person) basketball the most, prob "keep up" with college football the most. i'm hardly admant about it though. in fact, if football season started a month late i would likely not even notice.

^defense is impregnable (will), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 20:17 (seventeen years ago)

Oh man I watch golf like crazy, that is some good stuff. Not like I deliberately tune in but if it's on I'm hypnotized by it.

cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

baseball is the only one i follow now, i have been a fan of the other three at times but i didn't even know the sonics don't exist anymore until a couple of weeks ago.

velko, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

You baseball haters make me cry tears of pure acid. Which I am carefully collecting and will eventually throw in somebody's face.

resistance is feudal (WmC), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:18 (seventeen years ago)

basketball by a million miles. all the rest are hours of boringness with a few seconds of excitement here and there.

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

baseball is the indie rock of sports

*runs and hides*

Arvo Party (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

football>baseball>basketball>>>>>>hockey

hazmat yayo (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

college football is my faves tho

hazmat yayo (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

I luv baseball but I think it's pretty easy to understand why some people who don't get the appeal

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

I've really come around to baseball. I loved it as a kid, more for collecting cards and playing it myself than watching, but kind of grew away from it as I get older. I've been rediscovering it lately. I went to an Orioles game for the first time in over ten years this weekend and it was a really great experience. Relaxing, some great edge-of-your-seat moments, quintessentially American and nostalgia-inducing, beer, hotdogs, peanuts. Loved it all. I've noticed that baseball on the radio is supremely pleasant and comforting too. I like that baseball has managed to maintain a relatively classy, old-fashioned sensibility. It's like Coke in an old glass bottle to football's Mountain Dew in a Big Gulp.

Football's a good time though. Won't knock it too hard. I'll usually tune in during the playoffs.

Basketball's too back-and-forth and high scoring for me to get excited about. Oh hey, another 2 points. Huzzah.

Don't feel like I've seen enough hockey to really comment on it.

Oym a cripe... Oym a weer-dew... (circa1916), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

college football is my faves too, I didn't list it because I didn't want to split the football vote

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

and err "why some people who don't get the appeal"

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

What really baffles me is my own feelings toward football: hate the college game, love it at the pro level.

resistance is feudal (WmC), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

pro football = college football with slightly bigger dudes and less exciting things happening

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

I mean, reggie bush in college vs. reggie bush in the nfl

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

^feel the same way about college vs pro hoops.
baseball is a great relaxing summer thing. love day games. but there's way too many reg season games and the sport itself is low on action compared to other sports.

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:30 (seventeen years ago)

listen i love college sports but i always hate that challops about how college is always more exciting, like if you can't vibe off the last superbowl or say the bull/celtics series you don't like football or basketball imo

Arvo Party (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:31 (seventeen years ago)

I was reading ESPN mag's article on the Pittsburgh Pirates earlier today and it said, basically, "small market teams like Pittsburgh can't afford to compete for the top free agents, so they have to try to make do other ways". The article was about why Pittsburgh has sucked since 1992. This is something I love about the NFL and to a much lesser extent the NBA: you don't have to play in a big market to have great players in their peaks. And it's what I hate about MLB.

dulce est desipere in loco (Euler), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

the last two superbowls were fantastic and the last handful of bcs champ games were awful

but I'll be damned if ANY nfl game in our lifetimes will be able to compare to the oklahoma/boise state game from a few years back

and - one day, a decade from now, when there's a playoff series...

xpost

iatee, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

it can't be understated how much it helps to be able to see the puck

when in doubt, follow the play

Suggest this user to be danned. (dan m), Friday, 29 May 2009 07:55 (seventeen years ago)

basketball > baseball > football >>>>>>>>>>>> since when do americans (lol michigan doesn't count) care about hockey?

sensitive thug hugging epidemic (The Reverend), Friday, 29 May 2009 08:24 (seventeen years ago)

(nb: I do go watch the local hockey team every so often, and enjoy it a lot, but don't care about hockey at all)

sensitive thug hugging epidemic (The Reverend), Friday, 29 May 2009 08:26 (seventeen years ago)

depending who you ask, minnesotans care more about hockey than michiganders

Suggest this user to be danned. (dan m), Friday, 29 May 2009 08:30 (seventeen years ago)

hockey > baseball > college basketball > pro football >>>>>>>> college football > pro basketball

mookieproof, Friday, 29 May 2009 08:41 (seventeen years ago)

baseball, though, is just different from the others

mookieproof, Friday, 29 May 2009 08:43 (seventeen years ago)

basketball > hockey > baseball > football

i cant believe all the hockey-ignorant ppl -- one of the coolest things about it to me is the pure momentum a game played entirely on ice skates has -- its like everything is going in fast forward

autogucci cru (deej), Friday, 29 May 2009 09:00 (seventeen years ago)

roids really fucked baseball's placement on this list for me

i like playing touch football but never really enjoyed it as a game to watch

autogucci cru (deej), Friday, 29 May 2009 09:00 (seventeen years ago)

i like finesse & u know about the bears & quarterbacks ... basketball & hockey are all about finesse

autogucci cru (deej), Friday, 29 May 2009 09:01 (seventeen years ago)

"since when do americans (lol michigan doesn't count) care about hockey?"

I'd put 5 other states, if not more, ahead of Michigan in hockey fandom

Bill Magill, Friday, 29 May 2009 13:08 (seventeen years ago)

the ny/nj metro area has a (surprisingly? maybe not given that there are 3 teams) big hockey following

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Friday, 29 May 2009 13:26 (seventeen years ago)

yeah i don't think there's any surprise there. altho i gather from old-timers that it's not what it used to be. (probably because the islanders and rangers aren't what they used to be.)

would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 May 2009 13:31 (seventeen years ago)

and speaking of teams not being what they used to be, if you want a prime example of a team's ownership and management mattering more than its market size, i give you...

http://weblogs.wpix.com/sports/thehuddle/image/knicks.gif

would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 May 2009 13:34 (seventeen years ago)

the Giants win in '08 was great fun
― Michael B, Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:39 PM (Yesterday)

I fail to see what was so "great" or "fun" about it. More like excruciating and painful if you ask me.

Moodles, Friday, 29 May 2009 14:18 (seventeen years ago)

moodles, this might help you:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/patriots_season_perfect_for_rest

iatee, Friday, 29 May 2009 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

since when do americans (lol michigan doesn't count) care about hockey?

You guys have been smarting ever since the Metropolitans folded in the 1920s.

I'd put 5 other states, if not more, ahead of Michigan in hockey fandom

Really? This only heightens my curiosity.

I definitely had a "wha?" moment when I went away to college in Michigan and suddenly met all these fans of hockey and Barenaked Ladies.

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:10 (seventeen years ago)

michigan = canada?????

iatee, Friday, 29 May 2009 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

most of the upper Midwest = Canada!

Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

I'd put 5 other states, if not more, ahead of Michigan in hockey fandom

lol crazy talk, I can see MN and *maybe* MA, but after that I don't know where you're going with this.

MA, MN, MI, and NY are the only states that are have their own designation under the USA Hockey organization, i.e. that are not part of regional conferences. This is due to the high amount of players in those states.

Suggest this user to be danned. (dan m), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

You could make arguments for ME, NH and VT but I'm guessing there are more skiers there than hockey players...?

Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

moodles, this might help you:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/patriots_season_perfect_for_rest

― iatee, Friday, 29 May 2009 19:52 (31 minutes ago) Permalink

;__;

Moodles, Friday, 29 May 2009 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

"lol crazy talk, I can see MN and *maybe* MA, but after that I don't know where you're going with this."

Whatever dude, I'll make sure to run my posts by you before I hit send.

Bill Magill, Friday, 29 May 2009 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

or you could just name some states?

Suggest this user to be danned. (dan m), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

MN, Mass, Upstate NY, Wis, North Dakota, Alaska, NH-just based on the us born players from my college hockey team. Non-scientific, sure , but my point was that Michigan is not the place in the US where hockey's popular. Hell, there's as many guys from Illinois as there are from Michigan on your dumbass Red Wings.

Bill Magill, Friday, 29 May 2009 20:47 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.fromtherink.com/2008/12/9/687282/where-nhlers-come-from-the

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:51 (seventeen years ago)

look at those graphs!

Suggest this user to be danned. (dan m), Friday, 29 May 2009 21:05 (seventeen years ago)

Michigan has 24 NHLers born in the state playing this season, led by Brian Rolston, Brian Rafalski, Mike Modano, Doug Weight, Ryan Miller, David Legwand, Ryan Kesler, Jeff Finger, David Booth and Vezina candidate Tim Thomas.

I played junior hockey with this guy, he didn't even move on to the high school level like everyone else, he went off and played crazy AAA travel midget or something.

Suggest this user to be danned. (dan m), Friday, 29 May 2009 21:09 (seventeen years ago)

lol maple leafs

mookieproof, Friday, 29 May 2009 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

Are we talking strictly pro sports here? If not: college football. If so: hockey (yeah, I'm from Michigan lol)

"alt-black" (Pillbox), Friday, 29 May 2009 22:29 (seventeen years ago)

we're counting college-level

iatee, Friday, 29 May 2009 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

so happy basket beat base

insincere ilsas of the SS (hmmmm), Thursday, 4 June 2009 00:18 (sixteen years ago)

I'm surpised that football didn't run away with it.

Bill Magill, Thursday, 4 June 2009 13:53 (sixteen years ago)

aw basketpaws, sooo close yet no cigar :(

t**t, Thursday, 4 June 2009 14:47 (sixteen years ago)

hockey - for minnesotans, michiganders, massholes and other such canadian weirdos, plus the violent and/or closeted/repressed
football - for southerners, midwesterners, bridge and tunnelers and other such suburban fatsos
basketball - more urban and therefore better than the two above, but lost me when it got boring and lost its grace and my hometown heroes
Nascar - requiring more exertion and/or precision than some of the others, it's totally a sport even if machines are involved, but i'm kinda bored by it now tbh; last week's race was ok, and considering one this weekend, but probably not
baseball - for everyone, not always the most exciting, but the classiest and best of all (so long as the less-populist tennis doesn't get to play)

Reggiano Jackson (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

hockey - almost no blended haircuts
football - minimal number of blended haircuts
basketball - average number of blended haircuts
Nascar - above average number of blended haircuts, but starting to decline
baseball - ideal number of blended haircuts

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:12 (sixteen years ago)

"hockey - for minnesotans, michiganders, massholes and other such canadian weirdos, plus the violent and/or closeted/repressed
football - for southerners, midwesterners, bridge and tunnelers and other such suburban fatsos"

^utterly moronic

Bill Magill, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)

oh yeah, they;re for dudes who like hookers too

Reggiano Jackson (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:16 (sixteen years ago)

^i repeat, utterly moronic

Bill Magill, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:22 (sixteen years ago)

After all this time, I finally found an occasion to want to suggest ban gabbneb.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:28 (sixteen years ago)

http://wayneandwax.com/wp/images/truth-hurts-crop.jpg

Reggiano Jackson (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

i would like to point out that i have been offtm in this thread

k3vin k., Sunday, 15 May 2011 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

https://twitter.com/BrianPickett/status/756134629493571586

, Thursday, 21 July 2016 14:47 (nine years ago)

isn't that like the finnish version of baseball

dynamicinterface, Thursday, 21 July 2016 15:56 (nine years ago)

i remember watching some videos on youtube a few years ago, it looked p dumb

dynamicinterface, Thursday, 21 July 2016 15:57 (nine years ago)

haha @ gabbneb upthread taking such care to be seen appreciating nascar after writing football and hockey off as flyover circuses

le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 21 July 2016 16:26 (nine years ago)

yeah that's bizarre, what a rube.

ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 July 2016 16:28 (nine years ago)

i would list the big 4 in this order:

baseball
football
hockey
basketball

and nascar is good ... for me to poop on

apologies to Canada for the relatively low placement of the two sports invented here

ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 July 2016 16:45 (nine years ago)

three months pass...

The sports equinox:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/today-is-the-sports-equinox/

clemenza, Monday, 31 October 2016 01:31 (nine years ago)


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