Thursday night in New Orleans the 2010 National Football League season will kickoff, and it promises to be more and more of the game that America loves the most.
The annual Harris Poll once again shows that Americans list pro football as the favored sport in the land with 35 percent of those queried citing pro football for the top spot, and when you consider that college football is listed as the top sport for another 12 percent, that means that 47 percent of those polled by Harris like big time football more than any other sport.
Of course, for those of us who follow these polls closely year after year, this is not “new” news.
Every major Gallop or Harris poll taken since 1965 (roughly coinciding with Pete Rozelle’s reign as NFL commissioner) has cited pro football as the favorite sport of Americans, but the numbers are growing.
Pro football has gained in popularity more than any other sport since 1985 — which is really hard to do when you are already number one — with an 11 percent increase in popularity over the past 25 years. The number started at 24, now is an amazing 35 percent.
Our game moved ahead of baseball as the fans’ favorite for the first time in 1965, and has maintained that spot in every survey, in every year, since.
Of course, the Broncos have been sold out at home since and including every game of the 1970 season, marking 2010 as the 41st consecutive year of home sellouts to go along with huge local television rating for every Broncos game, home or away.
With the NFL Network, games on multiple days of the week, and college cable packages that abound in every region, fans can count on seeing plenty of their favorite sport again in 2010.
The five most popular sports according to The Harris Poll are as listed:
1 Pro football 35 %
2 Baseball 16 %
3 College football 12 %
4 Auto racing 9 %
5 Men’s pro basketball 5 %
Let’s kick it off!
Tags: 2010, Denver Broncos, harris poll, Jim Saccomano
GO BRONCOS! Let open up a can of woooop ass on the Jags.
Football,the real man’s sport.Stomp a mudhole in them Jags ass,then walk it dry !!haha GO BRONCS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is most intrguing for me for this game is exactly how much of a playbook we have this year verses last, from what we have been hearing, it’s supposed to be much more elaborate, let’s hope I get just as surprised by it as the Jaguars will. Starting with using Larsen to his potential, specially on short yardage, since we are short at RB would be a good start, and the wild horse seems like it would be a must in this game to keep their D off balance. Oops, I hope the Jags don’t read this blog, I have probably already said too much, haha.
The call Baseball americas pass time but what is there not to love about american football. it is just amazing lol. And even more amazing than Pro football is Broncos football
Football is no doubt the #1 sport… it has become the new “favorite past time” for America. Baseball will always be loved by a lot of people but football is so much more fun and exciting! lol
Keep the faith Bronco Country…
GO BRONCOS in 2010!!!!
I come from the land where hockey is pretty much our national sport…..and I love hockey, but it can’t even come close to my Denver Broncos FOOTBALL!!!!!
So pumped for this weekend’s game! I hope we won’t need a fluke play in the dying seconds to pull out the week 1 victory again. I believe our O should own the Jags……this game will be a test on our run defense…..so let’s hope they respond well.
Bay,
Here is my prediction……as an always optimistic Broncos fan.
11-5
I believe this team comes together with some early wins and builds some chemistry. And with the experience of last years monumental collapse, I don’t believe they’ll let that happen again.
GO BRONCOS!
WAY TO GO BAY! MY GOSH WHY DON’T YOU JUST TELL THEM EVERYTHING IN OUR GAME PLAN!!!!!
From now on your posts can only contain the following points. Temperature prior to kickoff, barametric pressure on game day, chance of rain in South America and your thoughts regarding the living habbits of spider monkeys! LOL!
GO GET EM’ BOYS!
I just hope our Broncos can play with the skill and grit that my Boise State Broncos play. I’m just a Bronco fan!
I am a little surprised that Golf did not make the top five simply because of how much it has grown over the last ten years or so.
Hopefully the broncos will avoid that late season coliapse that they have seen the past two seasons. With three road games in a row in December it will be a difficult challenge. I am excited to see what happens. Go broncos!
Broncfalls, you are cracking me up, LOL, funny stuff! BTW, you are kind of cracking me up with your record prediction also, haha.
15-1
Only loss St. Louis Rams.
You heard it here first.
Florio I know you don’t like our guessing games, so as per your request last year I promise I’ll keep you out, joke or not, you’re no fun when it comes to playing games, haha.
Lol i don’t care either way.
seriously though…..9-7.
That’s mine, copycat, LOL.
Hey Bay! Although I’m bad with names and handles…..I’m assuming you’ve been blogging since it became available.
With that said, would it be to much to ask for you to reach into your football magic sack and pull out LetPlummerPlay? For some reason, each time I get ready to leave a response that handle always jumps into my head! LOL
On a serious note, it’s great chatting with you and all the bloggers. You have a great grasp on things. And as you have said before many times. Sometimes we agree to dissagree but it’s still the ultimate love for your favorite football team!
GO GET EM’ BOYS!
Is it Sunday yet!? I’m way too excited for the season to kick off!
I’m looking forward to several things:
-Orton’s improvement from last year to this year
-How well our OL will hold up and how effective they will be
-Whether or not we can stop the run
-Our outstanding secondary
- Ayers and how well he plays
- Tebow and the Wildhorse?
There’s a lot of things I will paying attention to. The most important thing being the scoreboard!!! I’m gonna be optimistic as I can this year. Broncos for life!!
And Baylin I think I am gonna go with 9-7 for my prediction. We are improving year after year but I am not convinced we are playoff ready until next year.
Go Broncos!!!!!!!
As long as we are guessing.
I believe Kyle Orton make the probowl.
That felt very strange to say. lol
florio that was strange to see from your post lol
Yeah, but not so farfetched since McD uses the running game as a sideshow and we have 6 very good receivers, 5 rearing to go and one potentially huge in the wing.
Joking or not Florio, Orton getting probowl consideration is a real possibility. As long as he stays healthy. I’ve been on team Orton all along. It’s nice that BRONCOMANIACS are starting to see…
Football! Yeah!
Get Healthy/Stay Healthy, BRONCOS 2K10!!!!!!!!!!
off the topic question, will the captains be wearing the “C” on their jerseys this year? if not, why not?