[Lokibob]

 "The Super Bowl remains the biggest sport championship"

 

Crock.  NASCAR beats them all.  And the championship is on the line every week with the points leader changing.

 

Scoocr, football, NBA would drool to get 100,000 rabid fans in every sunday.

[cripplecreek]

I know that people who don't watch NASCAR are usually surprised to find that NASCAR draws such large attending crowds. A while back, someone bragged to me about a football game drawing some 70,000 fans. I think Kansas speedway is the only track with less than 120,000 seats.

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

Crock. NASCAR beats them all. And the championship is on the line every week with the points leader changing. Scoocr, football, NBA would drool to get 100,000 rabid fans in every sunday

Football kills Nascar. Have a Nascar race in every city on the same day where there is a NFL football game and Nascar will get killed on attendance.

[Huck]

Here's the difference, Lokibob. In NASCAR, all the teams are on the same "field" at the same time. They move from track to track, but Stewart, Biffle, Gordon, Martin, Earnhart Jr etc are ALL at the same race. It's as if you had all 32 football teams playing in the same stadium on the same day. Therefore, imo, to accurately compare NASCAR attendance to NFL attendance on a giving Sunday, you should combine the attendance of all the NFL games together and compare that to whatever Nextel Race is being held.

[jlasoon]

"Crock. NASCAR beats them all. And the championship is on the line every week with the points leader changing.

Scoocr, football, NBA would drool to ge"

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Smart man not to mention MLB.

Major league Baseball sells 80 million tickets a year no one anywhere on the planet is ever going to come close to that. Not even Nascar.

[Polybius]

NASCAR beats them all. And the championship is on the line every week with the points leader changing. Scoocr, football, NBA would drool to get 100,000 rabid fans in every sunday.

It's not the number of rabid fans sitting inside a stadium that brings in the Big Bucks.

It's the number of coach potatoes sitting in their living room wearing their "official" jerseys and hats watching the event and the Bud Lite commercials on TV.

Pro Sports Industry Revenue Projections (Ranked by Projected Revenues, 2006, in $ mil.) Total Revenues: 2006

NFL ................. 6,524
MLB ............... 4,030
NBA ............... 3,838
NASCAR ... ... 3,423
NHL ................ 2,129

[SengirV]

They have the NCAA football for that. BTW, did you see the number of NLF teams selling out all their tickets in a matter of seconds - literally. Build HUGE stadiums and MANY NFL teams would fill it. It's just that watching football requires a better view of the field than twisting you head in a circle watching cars go in a nice neat circle for 5 hours. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Petronski]

Scoocr, football, NBA would drool to get 100,000 rabid fans in every sunday.

I tend to think that the NFL has more than 100,000 rabid fans in the seats every Sunday during the season. Sixteen games at 50k+ each?

[Lee'sGhost]

"Scoocr, football, NBA would drool to get 100,000 rabid fans in every sunday."

You're joking, right? That's 100,000 people going to the one and only race on Sunday. Add up all of the people who go to NFL games on any given weekend and NASCAR becomes an insignificant speck.