Sports of the 20's had a long lasting social impact on America. Most notably, the success of athletes in the 20's inspired schools of all sizes to create their own teams. What would school have been like with no football or Basketball season? Newspapers, magazines, and radio boosted the profile of athletes to almost cult like followings. In Baseball, you had Babe Ruth breaking the HR record in '27. In football, Red Grange earned the moniker "The Galloping Ghost" and played in the newly formed NFL. The momentum created by athletes of the 20's helped to build the popularity enjoyed today. Sports have always been a human method of diversion from political and social issues that create stress. From the days of gladiators to modern day obsession with sports. Games are history's greatest distraction.
If we base popularity via participation figures and viewing levels, popularity is as follows: Football Ice Hockey Basketball Tennis Weightlifting Skiing/Snowboarding etc
To become popular, sports teams have to overcome cultural factors. These include winning games, appealing to a large audience, and being in a good location.
One of the cultural factors that US sport franchises must overcome to increase the popularity abroad is language, aka the slang words that mean something different abroad.
easylook it up on answers.comAnswer:Whatever you found could be the subject of great controversy anyway, as there are quite widely differing figures on many of these claims concerning inter-country "popularity" of various sports, and who, even, engages the various sports within certain of these countries.I have even seen claims that volleyball was the most popular sport in the world! Yet it ranks No 1 in very few countries.Of the various 'figures' that we do have, many are highly unreliable.However, the great consensus of worldwide opinion on this subject, states that association football [soccer] is by far the most played and most popular.From there, opinions of those that follow soccer in popularity vary greatly.
Tennis hold a second rank in worldwide sports
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they don't
baseball
No of course it is not. They keep it alive just for the popularity of sports.
Social Boston Sports was created in 2007-01.
How sports reflect social inequality
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