This is how I see the trends in my lifetime. When I was young I would rank in popularity these sports in order, Baseball, Football, Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer. Now I would make the ranking Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, and Hockey. With Soccer being within striking distance of baseball, due to baseball’s nursing home demographic. Hockey had a brief moment in the early 90’s, but it did not capitalize and now it is teetering on irrelevance. Football is king right now, with Basketball and Soccer being sports that are trending up. While Baseball is about to enter a death spiral after its fans pass to the great beyond in the next two decades, and hockey was never there to began with.
I'm off to watch some thoroughbred racing . . . oh, wait.