WHY IS THE NFL MORE POPULAR THAN THE NBA?

[Cowboyz89]

- Each game means a lot more due to the smaller schedule and less amount of teams in playoffs
- Win or go home games in the playoffs
- Each position is specialized, so you see people doing their job at the highest level of skill
- Fantasy Football
- From a scheme standpoint. Football is chess compared to Basketballs checkers
- One player can dramatically affect the game in basketball, only a couple elite QB's have that ability in football
- Far more of a team game
- Far more parity in the leauge
- Games on the weekend makes it easier for the majority of people to watch and keep track of team progress
-VIOLENCE
- No flopping

I honestly dont think its close...I dont even watch regular season NBA games anymore unless I have nothing better to do

 

[OG Talk]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-boys-of-summer-are-back-2016-mlb-random-thoughts.404202/page-280

I see dead people

I see warm milk drinkers

 

[El Bombi]

Because the NBA refs plays a major factor on who wins. More than any other sports by a long shot.

The NBA can sometimes become so unwatchable by how much the refs dictate the game infavor for one team over another team.

 

[DonRe]

i think its the tights i mean have you seen fitz behind. and those arms. wooooaaaahhhhh

 

[Juven]

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-VIOLENCE

thats not true. You cant even hit a player anymore. People want to see big plays and offense

 

[Bilz]

I don't even know how someone could even question why football is more popular.

Personally, I would watch a Nuggets/Pelicans game over the Superbowl but the NFL has been a staple for so long. The NFL defines Sunday sports, then they grabbed Monday, now they have Thursday. College has Saturday and they are also pulling in Thurs and Friday.

I don't see basketball ever touching that.

 

[Blade]

NFL has American cac superstars. The NBA doesn't. Same reason why some folks like to argue that college basketball is > NBA basketball. American cac superstars.

 

[Blade]

delonte played with a sock and a wire hangaaaaa

Folks used to hoop using milk crates

 

[Bilz]

NFL has American cac superstars. The NBA doesn't. Same reason why some folks like to argue that college basketball is > NBA basketball. American cac superstars.

The NBA wasn't shyt when whites were more prominent though.

 

[Blade]

The NBA wasn't shyt when whites were more prominent though.

The league was just starting off when cacs could still hoop in the league. Not to mention there were 2 leagues back then and the league had trouble getting games on TV and getting people to games.

 

[Lakerman0834]

Last nights game 3 hrs and only 11 minutes of game action

 

[BucciMane]

you are wrong, Warriors/Cavs Finals averaged 20 million viewers with Game 7 getting over 44 million viewers, highest since MJ. NFL while still getting good ratings but has been dropping steadily. So NBA games that matter hold their own against NFL...

Game 7 of the NBA Finals lived up to the hype, especially in terms of viewership for ABC.
The Cleveland Cavaliers thrilling 93-89 win over the Golden State Warriors brought in 30.8 million viewers on Sunday night, the network said.

The telecast peaked with 44.5 million viewers from 10:30 pm to 10:40 pm ET when the Cavaliers wrapped up the victory.

This makes the much anticipated showdown the most watched NBA game since 1998 when Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls beat the Utah Jazz.

The seven game series averaged 20.1 million viewers for ABC making it the most-watched NBA Finals since 1998.


Sports Business Daily reported Monday that the overnight ratings for Sunday Night Football between the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears drew 18.62 million viewers and scored a 12.9 in the Neilsen ratings, which is down from 13.7 in Week 2 and 13.9 in Week 3 a year ago. Elsewhere, the early-afternoon regional slate of games on CBS dropped by 18 percent compared to Week 3 last season while FOX’s 4:25 p.m. game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles (which saw Philly win in a surprisingly one-sided affair) dropped by 1 percent from the same time slot last season. The lone bright spot was FOX’s early-afternoon slot, which went up by about 3 percent.

You're comparing a game seven finals rating to an NFL regular season game rating.

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Even with arguably the two most marketable NBA players over the past few years in the same finals, NFL wild card weekend smoked their numbers. There are obvious reasons for that as they are one game playoffs, but that doesn't change the fact that the ratings weren't as close as you're making them seem.

 

[Malta]

White American stars vs a sport with highly visible black men?

 

[315]

Basketball in general gets more boring to me as I get older. I might watch the playoffs if they were one and done like college

 

[Malta]

link?

A recent Experian Simmons study shows that this is true demographically. Of people who identified themselves as part of the NFL fan base 83 percent were white, 64 percent were male, 51 percent were 45 years or older, only 32 percent made less than $60,000 a year, and, to finish the point, registered Republicans were 21 percent more likely to be NFL fans than registered Democrats. Another factoid: NFL fans were 59 percent more likely than the average American to have played golf in the last year. You think the NFL is a lunch-bucket league? Not unless the lunch bucket is from Hermes.

NFL: Last sports bastion of white, male conservatives