What's more popular worldwide: Cricket OR (American) Football?

[jinduy]

cricket ftw?

 

[zoiks]

*crickets*

 

[Mr Incognito]

Not another one of these.

 

[krunchykrome]

wtf is cricket?

 

[pyonir]

:thumbsdown:

 

[nageov3t]

probably cricket... do countries other than america play "football"?

 

[mooglemania85]

American Imperialism FTW!

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Mr Incognito
Not another one of these.

LOL... let me add fuel to this fire:

Number of people in the 1 country that played the 2007 Superbowl: 302,000,000
Number of people in the 16 countries that played in the 2007 Cricket World Cup: 1,715,098,938

 

[xcript]

I'll go with cricket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...nternational_structure

 

[Chiboy]

Cricket.

 

[darthsidious]

cricket... by far. India alone would drown out the US football fan base by a lot.

 

[alien42]

cricket is a joke and i refuse to vote in this poll

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: darthsidious
cricket... by far. India alone would drown out the US football fan base by a lot.

Yup. Out of the 1.7 billion number I posted earlier, 1.1 billion are Indians alone.

 

[alien42]

Originally posted by: loki8481
probably cricket... do countries other than america play "football"?

not anymore

 

[jimmythesuperstar]

cricket b/c there are 1B Indians that play it, so you got us beat by 700,000,000.

 

[RU482]

I wonder what they call crickets on the other side of the pond

 

[jai6638]

Cricket for sure.. American football is only famous in america... The only thing that comes close to it which people play in the rest of the world would be rugby..

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Popular how?

To play in amateur recreation? Well then I'd say cricket, football is too expensive to casually play and is thus confined to a smaller audience (mostly America)

To watch as a fan? Well if we're just talking sheer numbers of viewers I'm not so sure. Sure, Cricket has a wider audience, but Football has a richer audience (more viewers that can actually afford TVs and electricity). Evidence suggests the superbowl as a clear winner in sheer number of viewers, but the vast majority of the viewers come from America.

To invest in as a fan? Well then the obvious answer is football. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2749584

But the key to the question is worldwide. Just because the football's American audience makes it this huge juggernaut doesn't mean the rest of the world buys into it as well.

 

[thepd7]

Who says that worldwide american football is more popular? That's just plain stupid, as people pointed out India has a hell of a lot of people that like cricket a whole lot more than football.

Now which is better and more entertaining, that would be an interesting poll!

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Going by the poll, there are 12 people living in denial. It's called American Football for a reason: only Americans give a damn about it.

 

[Fenixgoon]

popular, i'd have to say cricket. think about all the former english colonies, notably india.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

cricket...i'd say its behind football and tennis in popularity.