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Trivia Tidbit Of The Day: Part 259 -- Superbowl Sunday.

The Explosive Growth Of American Football-

The Super Bowl is the most popular televised event in America. There's really not even any competition. None. NFL football is also America's sport, having officially usurped Major League Baseball (MLB) nearly two decades ago. Here are some results:

Thirty-nine years ago this month, the first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles, featuring Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers against the Kansas City Chiefs. Tickets cost $12 and the game was not a sell-out. Now, the Super Bowl is recognized as the premier American sporting event. According to at least one recent poll, professional football itself is the country’s favorite sport, too. In a Harris poll taken twenty years ago, football led baseball by only a single percentage point (24 to 23 percent).

Football has grown. It's even taken market share from America's pastime, baseball:

One interesting bit is that college football is the most Republican sport:

Incidentally, my favorite sport is college football, followed by college basketball, followed by pro baseball, pro basketball, and pro football (each pro sport roughly close to one another).

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Posted by Will Franklin · 5 February 2006 08:21 PM

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