Sports on the rise or fall?

[BigDaddyFin]

Baseball Football Basketball and Hockey are going to flip-flop among themselves, and then if you want to fill out a top five it's going to go back and forth between NASCAR and maybe Golf or Soccer or MMA or who the hell knows. 

NASCAR's (and all of auto racing, F1, Indycar, NHRA) shit has hit the fan and I don't think its popularity will go back up anytime soon, even if Danica starts winning and all their driver diversity stuff pans out. 

[Dave Gray]

What's the reason behind the Nascar fall?

I don't watch as much just for circumstantial reasons...rain, busy, etc.  ...not that I don't enjoy it if it's on.

[Phishfan]

The fall of NASCAR may be a bit overstated in this thread. I think their television ratings are right up there and are still higher than some of the other sports. The interest in the sport peaked and is now leveling off. some people just jump on board when things are popular. I think we are seeing the effect of a nation full of viewers just like Dave.

[BigDaddyFin]

It isn't that NASCAR is in decline as much as they pissed a lot of us old-timers off with their recent round of changes. 

Changes in rules/competition format/marketing etc. are a regular part of any auto-racing body.  They went for the new audience so quick that they left a lot of us in the dust and apparently forgot or didn't realize we're the ones that spend most of the money.

Plus it doesn't help that they invented the Chase format to prevent Jeff Gordon from winning every year and now Jimmy Johnson is winning it every year. 

[Dave Gray]

I'm fine with the changes Nascar made, but there's still a problem of having races not matter down the stretch as much as they should.  It seems like every time I turn on the TV, they're stopping the action for rain, track conditions, or competition cautions or something.

[Sunstroke]

I've watched more NASCAR this season than ever in my life, so I see it as growing in popularity.

Sports in general...definitely on the way up.

[Tepop84]

A few years ago, the next big thing was Texas hold'em....It was everywhere,and it's dying as fast as it boomed...

lollerskates.  Must be fun just spouting incorrect knowledge such as this tidbit. The poker boom happened in 2003 when the WPT was created along with Chris Moneymaker winning the WSOP with new hole card cams for television broadcasts.  Has the popularity peaked, yes probably.  Is it dying as fast as it boomed, lol, obviously not. 

World Series of Poker Main Event Entrants
1999 - 393
2000 - 512
2001 - 613
2002 - 631
2003 - 839 (poker boom)
2004 - 2576
2005 - 5619
2006 - 8773
2007 - 6358
2008 - 6844
2009 - 6494

This year close to 1500 people were turned away on the last day to enter since the day was already sold out at 2700 people.  Anyways, lol at your comment.

[Dave Gray]

I watch all of the WSOP every year.

I really enjoy it.

[Sunstroke]

There are more poker shows on TV now than ever before, so it's hard to say that poker is in decline right now. I use ESPN's WSOP broadcasts as filler-tube. If nothing else is on that's worth watching, I'll flip it to the WSOP.

[bsfins]

lollerskates.  Must be fun just spouting incorrect knowledge such as this tidbit. The poker boom happened in 2003 when the WPT was created along with Chris Moneymaker winning the WSOP with new hole card cams for television broadcasts.  Has the popularity peaked, yes probably.  Is it dying as fast as it boomed, lol, obviously not. 

World Series of Poker Main Event Entrants
1999 - 393
2000 - 512
2001 - 613
2002 - 631
2003 - 839 (poker boom)
2004 - 2576
2005 - 5619
2006 - 8773
2007 - 6358
2008 - 6844
2009 - 6494

This year close to 1500 people were turned away on the last day to enter since the day was already sold out at 2700 people.  Anyways, lol at your comment.

People entring the tournament...Dosen't mean jack didly fuck.....Love the cherry picking a stat,that doesn't mean shit...That's like saying there's now 300 Poker webstires,while in 2004 there were only ten....It's meaningless...Lol...

There aren't the the 20 different shows on T.V. showing texas hold em..Where are all the Celebrities playing texas hold'em shows? Poker dome...all those shows...they're gone....The Poker Boom died as fast as it appeared......

[Tepop84]

celebrity poker lol.  that is like saying basketball is on the decline cause they don't have rock and jock bball anymore.

There are still plenty of poker shows on tv.  http://pokertube.com/TvShows.aspx

[bsfins]

omg,Where's RTW's Laughing smiley now...a list made of mainly shows that aren't on the air anymore.......Thank you for making my point.....

[DZA]

Boxing is Dead to me.   MMA woot woot   

[Phishfan]

Watching poker is as boring as watching frogs mate.

[Tepop84]

omg,Where's RTW's Laughing smiley now...a list made of mainly shows that aren't on the air anymore.......Thank you for making my point.....

before the boom there was the wsop main event on 1 time a year for a 2 hour broadcast.  Now there show multiple events from the worst series of poker, poker after dark is on every night, high stakes cash game is on once a week, wpt is on once a week.  surprisingly the european poker tour isn't on tv in the us, neither is the irish open.  but yea, poker is dead. lol,

Modified by Maine.  Feel free to leave personal insults out of your posts.  Next time the entire post is deleted. Let's all play nice, please.