Since we’ve been discussing a lot the Fighting Irish and Notre Dame football in general, let’s broaden our scope and take a look at American football. It’s no secret that American football has been the most popular sport in the country for quite some time now. Here are three jaw-dropping facts on America’s favorite sport.
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- A survey of 2,000 American adults showed that 35% preferred watching pro football over any other sport, while at little under 12% chose college football. That’s almost half of the sample group.
- Pro football’s biggest spectacle, the Super Bowl has averaged over 110 million viewers for the past eight years. That’s more than any other show on network TV.
- More than 50 million rabid followers attend college football games, while 210 million watch the games at home. NCAA bowl games attract 120 million viewers across the nation.
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With those numbers, it’s easy to assume that football is a great part of American pop culture, what with films and TV shows being based on it. Many Americans are in it for the thrill and the brutality mixed in with sportsmanship, physical talent, and amazing, innovative strategies. Football is a game of men at their peak trying to penetrate and defend with coaches marshaling all of them in a spectacle for the ages.
Hello, I’m Tom Colton, and I’m currently a student at the University of Notre Dame. I absolutely love the Fighting Irish and college football in general. For more on the stuff I love, follow me on Twitter.
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