World Cup Far Outshines Super Bowl In Popularity Worldwide

If you are a sports fan in America you would immediately believe the The Super Bowl is by far the biggest sports event that takes place on earth every year. That would be due to the fact that you would not have noticed the 800 pound gorilla in the room, known as the World Cup, that far surpasses it in terms of an overall worldwide audience. Soccer is by far the world's most popular sport hands down. There is not even any other sport that begins to get even close to its worldwide appeal. The last World Cup that was played gained an audience of over 700 million viewers around the World. To give you an idea of just how big that is the last Super bowl game that was played in early February achieved a record audience of over 100 million. Usually its rating is around 80 million or so. A particularly interesting World Series game would get you about 20 million or so viewers in a typical year. An NBA Finals game is usually well under 9 million.