Forget being America’s national pastime, baseball barely can compete with football even when the NFL doesn’t have any games.
A recent Pew Research Center survey found that more than half of Americans voted football as “America’s sport.’’ In fact, of the roughly 12,000 people polled, nearly twice as many picked football (53 percent) as baseball (27 percent).
Another example came in the viewership numbers from Sunday’s Super Bowl: a record 123.4 million viewers tuning in across TV and streaming platforms. That broke the record set last year, when the Chiefs beat the Eagles, again in a game that came down to the wire.
Contrast those numbers with the trend line for the World Series, which drew the lowest ratings ever last year with an average viewership of just over 9 million.
