@maccyd: There's plenty of fans of every sport though, Baseball has a TON of fans and is America's pasttime. Not even American Football can change that, the Yankees have arguably the richest history and most HOF players of any sport. I know this is a different category but just saying. Basketball is growing as well.
I know in Australia Cricket is pretty big, I've watched some videos then they had a few baseball players play and they crushed the ball lol. (Since a cricket field is a lot smaller than baseball) but thought it was kind of interesting.
MLB is also major, the reason why "more people watch Football" is because it's ridiculously short 16 game season, if Baseball, Basketball and Hockey had 10 games it would also be watched a ton as well. But this is another reason personally why I prefer longer sports like Baseball and Hockey because you need endurance over a yearly period, not just a few months. Baseball is actually much bigger worldwide than American football. Every few years there's the classic, and ton of countries from Netherlands, parts of Europe, Africa, Asia(China, Korea, Japan etc) Australia, Canada, all of Central and South America from Mexico down as well as America of course.
Hockey originated in Canada as far as "Ice Hockey" adding Ice, if you want to go all the way back it actually originated in Ireland then ancient Greece B.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey#History
The hockey you're referencing is Field Hockey(on foot) and not on Ice, I'm referencing Hockey as it's been a while not Ice Hockey. I enjoy watching hockey.
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