What are America’s 2 Most Popular Outdoor Sports?

I was reading an article the other day talking about television networks and their advertising revenues when I came across this interesting fact. The 2 most popular outdoor sports are not football, baseball, or soccer, and obviously it’s not basketball, either since those events are held mainly indoors.

No it is not what you are thinking. Not baseball or football. Stats about how many people attend events and how many are directly involved are part of how they measure this popularity. This is ONLY for sports that happen entirely outdoors.

The first one of the 2 most popular outdoor activities or sports is birding, or birdwatching. How is birding a sport? For the most part there are no teams playing against each other. It is individual one person against nature. Both birding and fishing I can understand because even though you do not have to be an athlete to do them, you can get very competitive.

You would be amazed at how many people are birding these days and it is a low-cost hobby or sport to participate in. One last thing I want to mention about the expenses involved in this sport is that many birders invest in a quality pair of bird binoculars to get the most out of their birdwatching trips. If you are going to do serious fishing, you will spend about the same amount.

Honest, the second most popular sport is NASCAR Racing.No wonder NASCAR is listed as one of the top two outdoor sports activities. looking at the stats I can see how they got to that conclusion. What makes this such an incredibly popular sport is that there are hundreds of thousands of fans who go long distances to attend NASCAR events. Almost every weekend there is something related to NASCAR going on all around the country.

What makes NASCAR racing such an incredibly popular spectator sport? There are hundreds of thousands of fans attending NASCAR events. And NASCAR has a lot of racing events all around the country. Just think how many people would have to fill your baseball stadium to equal the number of people at a Nascar event. It is the stats folks. The statistics about the numbers of people. That is how they came up with birdwatching and NASCAR as the top two outdoor sports. You really could have fooled me!

When I shared this information at the office, no one else guessed the two most popular outdoor sports in America either. Right. Birdwatching and NASCAR racing.

Daniel is a NASCAR Racing fan so stop by and check out some articles on NASCAR and get the NASCAR schedule and news while you’re there. I never would have imagined birdwatching!

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