I was reading an article the other day talking about television networks and their advertising revenues when I came across this interesting fact. The 2 most popular outdoor sports are not football, baseball, or soccer, and obviously it’s not basketball, either since those events are held mainly indoors.
They keep statistics on how many people go to these events and how many people are directly involved and then they plug it into some formula to rank popularity. Remember we are talking about sports that are strictly outdoors.
The first one of the 2 most popular outdoor activities or sports watching birds. That is right – birdwatching. Birdwatching as a sport is a little like bass fishing tournaments, humans are competing with nature, not teams against teams. Birding is similar to fishing as a sport because there are bird spotting and bird identification competitions just as there are fishing tournaments. Although the monetary scale for prizes is no where near that of Bass Fishing!
You would be amazed at how many people are birding these days and it is a low-cost hobby or sport to participate in. One last thing I want to mention about the expenses involved in this sport is that many birders invest in a quality pair of bird binoculars to get the most out of their birdwatching trips. If you are going to do serious fishing, you will spend about the same amount.
Really? Yes, I could not believe the second most popular sport is NASCAR racing.The second most popular sport is NASCAR Racing. This amazed me when I read this fact. I guess it is the excitement of the chase and watching the people changing ranks after or even during every event. There are hundreds of thousands of fans attending every NASCAR event all over the country.
What makes NASCAR racing such an incredibly popular spectator sport? There are hundreds of thousands of fans attending NASCAR events. And NASCAR has a lot of racing events all around the country. Just think how many people would have to fill your baseball stadium to equal the number of people at a Nascar event. It is the stats folks. The statistics about the numbers of people. That is how they came up with birdwatching and NASCAR as the top two outdoor sports. You really could have fooled me!
How about you? Did you guess correctly? Did you know the two most popular outdoor sports in America are birdwatching and NASCAR racing?
Daniel is a NASCAR Racing fan so stop by and check out some articles on NASCAR and get the NASCAR schedule and news while you’re there. I never would have imagined birdwatching!
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