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Originally Posted by suburbia
UC-LAW - look at the numbers from nick.flood that I quoted. It showed percentages in 1998 and 2005 for both soccer and baseball, so those numbers answered your question.
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They did not answer his question in the slightest.
Just because something is extremely popular in participation does not mean that it will be popular as a spectator sport. I play pool at a competitive level and the same types of studies are often quoted in an attempt to boost the interest of sponsors into the game but it does not work. Alot of people may casually play pool, alot might even partake in league play, but most of the people who "play" pool don't enjoy "watching" it be played, even at a professional level and thus the sport fails to get any viewership and the people who play it professionally make almost no money relative to other sports.
Kids might be playing soccer, some adults might be playing soccer in leagues, but that does not mean that all of those people are automatically going to be interested in going out and "watching" other people play soccer and paying money to do it. It is that interest people have in "watching" a sport where the money comes from and that leads to the ultimate success and failure of a professional sport.
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