Thread 151552682

What's the point of winning if nobody sees you win?

yeah

>>151552682 (OP)
Regular season doesn't count in general. You wanted it to be that way. What is there to win there? The playoffs are your main events, the regular season is just there to determine who qualifies
I'm sure playoff viewership is higher. People are watching. And if not on TV, then via other means

>>151552682 (OP)
people actually watch NFL? i thought people liked basketball over there. whats there to watch in handegg? ive never made it thru a full game its a fucking tragic experience.

>>151553373
"Liking" basketball is a performative thing for social media addicts, nobody unironically likes watching the NBA product

>>151553373
NFL is by far and away the biggest sport in America

Basketball and baseball are pretty close between 2nd and 3rd. Has more to do with age,race and region

the better question is what's the point of seetheng everyday if nobody watches it?

>>151553373
The popularity of the NBA has been astroturfed hard since Magic and Bird retired. I remember in the '90s people were more into Shaq as a larger than life actor/character than caring about how he played. Most people are aware of MJ but have never watched him play. NFL has been #1 in America by far since the '70s. It used to be NHL as the #1 in Canada but NFL was always close behind in popularity. When I was in highschool I'd try discussing the NBA but nobody was interested in it beyond talking about Dirk & Nash. The NBA has been a welfare state for negro mutants since the '70s at least.

I can't summon the energy to care about sports where every team plays 200 games in a season
In the NFL every game matters

>>151552682 (OP)
per game is nuts
but the real surprise is basketball being watched almost twice more in the US than baseball

>>151552682 (OP)
There are 2430 regular season MLB games each year.
378k watching it on average is pretty good imo.

>>151553373
>people actually watch NFL? i
are you baiting?

>>151559253
smells fishy because next to no one watches the vast majority of games. Charlotte Hornets-New Orleans Pelicans isn't being watched by 71k people including the people in the building which is why it's so easy to have guys fake injuries for under props bets

>>151552682 (OP)
total number of viewers for the regular season:
5 billions for the nfl
1.7 billion for the nba
1 billion for the nhl
1.8 billion for the mlb
131 millions for the mls

surprised hockey as more viewers than baseball

>>151552682 (OP)
What's the point of winning if nobody remembers anything other than the commercials?

>>151554292
Yeah I love to play basketball, Afl and golf.
But they are absolutely terrible to watch.
Playing rugby league and cricket is painful and I sucked but watching it is good.
Although, Ill admit cricket is an acquired taste or at least requires a lot of watching and learning to understand the strategy.

>>151552682 (OP)
I find these stats hard to believe.
NRL had 614k viewers per game this year and only 2 states in Australia watch it. Cricket 770k for BBL
Nrl has 14m potential people vs 347m people. So 4.4% of people watched any given Nrl game vs .2% for NBA. Even NFL is 2.65%.
For what its worth AFL is 560k for the other 13m of Australians so thats around 4.3%.
If you dont know Afl and Nrl splits the country nobody I know in Qld can name a single AFL player and same goes for Victorians naming rugby players.
Shows hiw we are way too obsessed with sport.

>>151553373
Basketball is as boring as soccer
Why was your football watching a tragic experience, Nigel?

I'd rather see stats on the average IQ in the audience

>>151552682 (OP)
what's the point of playing if the games are rigged?

money.
entertainment.
reasons to bet.

>>151552682 (OP)
>92

>>151553373
NFL and College Football are huge here, no other sports come close.

>>151562354
I actually like watching soccer. Basketball is completely unwatchable.

bump for exposed boreball

>>151552682 (OP)
I'm pretty shocked the NHL is higher than baseball.

>>151554292
Lol cope

>>151563355
>College Football
speak for yourself, cleetus

>>151552682 (OP)
Most viewed games for each sport from the 2023-24 seasons
>>151552798
NBA finals viewership gets beaten by the college basketball tournament lol

>>151553373
The team sport ranking is:
1. NFL
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2. College Football
3. MLB
4. NBA
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5. College Basketball
6. NHL

You can argue about soccer placement, WC, Euros, Copa America can get pretty high viewership but not much else. Premier League games can get a couple million on NBC sometimes. MLS gets decent attendance. Including Golf/Tennis/UFC would complicate things also, its hard to compare the individual sports, but if I had to I'd probably put Golf right behind NBA, and Tennis below NHL. Obviously Olympics is also popular.

>>151562102
Its flawed stat, MLB does better than both NHL and NBA on RSNs despite having twice as many games.

Its probably because MLB has the same amount of nationally televised games but twice as many games, so the average gets brought down, since a smaller percentage are nationally broadcast.

>>151565767
Hundreds of shitter games on workdays' afternoons pull down the average.

Reminder that the NFL is broadcast on channels that anybody can get with an antenna, it’s essentially free to watch. NHL and NBA need like 3-5 subscription services if you want to watch every game for your team and the playoffs.

Pic quasi related

>>151567514
neither nhl nor nba would get anywhere close to the numbers nfl draws on network channels.
if nfl ever falls to nba numbers, it would have to move to premium channels, too.

what about illegal streams?

>>151567514
>Reminder that the NFL is broadcast on channels that anybody can get with an antenna
not even 50% of games liar

>>151568250
care to explain?

>>151568250
The local team is always broadcast on antenna, as are 3-4 other games.

I teach 8th grade and most of the boys in my classes had heard about Ohtani’s game last Friday. I’m not sure if they watched it but they were at least interested in what had happened. It gives me some hope

>>151552682 (OP)
I'm not even trying to be a feminist but the WNBA and NWSL get enough views to be on this list. It's actually weird to exclude them.

>>151554292
This is true. The NBA is miserable to watch.
>>151553373
The NFL is shoved down Americans' throats to an unbelievable degree. A lot of couch potatoes just cave and watch it because they have nothing better to do.
>>151554785
Based.

>>151554785
>Most people are aware of MJ but have never watched him play.
Because you're a fucking zoomer.

>>151552682 (OP)
NFL is the most popular but
NFL plays 17 games
NBA 82
NHL 82
MLB 162

>>151577314
Make them all 17 games per season and NFL still wins out.

>>151553373
the NFL is more of an entertainment experience, similar to WWE. women, children, and families can all get behind it because it’s a spectacle. it’s embarrassing that so many men on here consider it a sport

>>151552682 (OP)
Viewership per game...
>MLB has over 150 games
>NBA has like 100 games
>NFL has 27 games
This is why they teach us math in school

>>151577570
>>151577314
>MLB 2430 games total
>NFL 272 games total

>>151552682 (OP)
>3 hour game
>2 hours of those are ads
>45 minutes are replays
>only 15 minutes of acutal gameplay

i will never understand amerisharts.
how, just HOW do you watch this without resorting to calling soccer (which I don't watch either) boring?

at least apehoop has actual fucking gameplay to watch.

>>151582609
>at least apehoop has actual fucking gameplay to watch.
*laughs in final 2 minutes taking an hour*

>not shown
>English Premier League

>>151582609
This is not gameplay just because the clock is running

>>151583988
>without resorting to calling soccer boring
>immediately calls soccer boring

why are they like this?

>>151552682 (OP)
>yanks think 9.2m is big