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Originally Posted by Supz
The NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL. Those are the 4 MAJOR sports (in the US). No, the UFC, WNBA or Olympics are not Major sports. Sorry. This is not what the NBA thinks. This is what all of America thinks, except you obviously. UFC and WNBA have limited viewership, and the Olympics is only once every 4 years (8 years for the actual athletes). The Olympics is also not a sport. It is a bunch of sports. Track and Field, Skiing, are the actual sports. They are not MAJOR sports either.
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The Olympics has been around in one form or another for a longer period of time than the '4 major sports' combined. The WNBA is an expansion of the NBA, at one point every team in it was owned by the NBA. The UFC is by far the fastest growing sport, dwarfing the growth of the NHL (which is on strike for a season at a time every few years). The NFL is about to be saddled with massive lawsuit liability from all the head trauma cases and is turning into two-hand-touch as a result of the claims being filed. Baseball is a regional game that has a hard time carrying much of a national audience and has no competitive balance due to payroll disparity among the teams. It will be interesting to see the state of the 'four major sports' ten years from now. Hell, NASCAR is already bringing in more revenue than the NHL
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The 'four major sports' have mistreated their fan base for so long that it should surprise nobody when upstarts are able to dig into their audience.
