Opinion Today: Super Bowl Sunday Extra
February 11, 2024
Football Retains Dominant Position as Favorite U.S. Sport Jeffrey M. Jones,, Gallup Americans continue to name football as their favorite sport by a wide margin. Forty-one percent of U.S. adults say football is their favorite sport to watch. Baseball and basketball essentially tie for second at 10% and 9%, respectively. Football has been the top sport in Gallup polling since 1972, when it eclipsed baseball.
By a wide margin, Americans say football – not baseball – is ‘America’s sport’ Pew Research Center Baseball is known as “America’s favorite pastime.” But for the largest share of the U.S. public, football is “America’s sport,” according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. The public’s excitement for Super Bowl Sunday AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Forty percent of adults are excited for at least one Super Bowl event, including 25% who are excited for the game itself.
