06-21-2010, 05:51 PM
(06-21-2010, 04:31 PM)--Pete Wrote: Hi,
(06-21-2010, 12:57 PM)Alliera Wrote:(06-20-2010, 08:44 PM)--Pete Wrote: EDIT: How are you measuring it as 'biggest'?
Entirely subjectively.From what I know, it is the largest, i.e. the most participants and the largest audience.
Well, as far as I can see, there are more professional baseball teams in the American and National Leagues combined then there are teams in the World Cup. NASCAR brings in a lot more people than the World Cup. Now, you could argue that the World Cup teams represent all the world's soccer teams. You could argue that car racing is not a sport. Whatever. But I still don't see 'biggest'.
--Pete
NASCAR brings in "a lot" more people? What? Over 700 million viewers watched the last World Cup final in 2006. How many people watch NASCAR? 100 million? I'd be surprised if it was that high. As far as I know, American Football is more popular in the US than NASCAR.
As for Baseball, from looking at Wikipedia, there are 14 teams in the American League, and 16 teams in the National League. There were over 200 teams in the qualification for the World Cup, and even if you ignore the ones who didn't make it, there were 32 teams in the finals.
Football is by far the most popular sport in the world.