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May 20, 2018
2:48:18am
Y2k All-American
Here’s an explanation as to why MLS doesn’t compare to popularity
Again I realize that this isn’t a fair comparison because we’re talking the entire sport and not just leagues. But here we go.

MLS average season ticket prices.
Low - RSL $280.
High - Atlanta $450ish
With an average around high $300’s per seat.

NHL season ticket price
Low - Florida Panthers low $500’s which is a bit of an outlier.
High - NY and Vancouver well over $2000 unless you count outliers where they’re not available from the team so where the sell anywhere from $4000 to $9000.
Average price is probably around $1200 per seat. Excluding outliers.

It’s a little silly to compare attendance numbers when of course the cheap one is going to draw a way bigger crowd.

Is soccer growing in the US, yes. Is it as popular as Hockey right now? No and it’s not close. Is it close to baseball? No and it’s not even remotely close.

For myself I love international soccer. One of the reasons is because of the passion of the international fans. Hockey fans in the USA have this same passion for their teams. Hockey fans know their teams line ups and their teams and opponents strategies.

From what I’ve seen soccer fans in the USA don’t have this same passion if you exclude the USMNT. Most fans couldn’t tell you more than the star players and wouldn’t notice a trade for most players on their own teams. Even looking at leagues outside the US, most Americans I would assume don’t really have favorite teams they follow, which makes it pretty hard to get that passion.

1 issue I have with the way the results are being interpreted from the Gallup poll are that they only asked for people’s favorite sport. Many Hockey fans are probably also Football fans because of the nature of the sports. People who said soccer is their favorite could very well not even like any sports and picked soccer because their parents put them in a league as a kid. Knowing hockey fans, those that said hockey is their favorite eat sleep and breath hockey. That could be all wrong but we’re left to wonder and guess, but this has been my observation.
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