You Don't Hear Americans Singing 'Take Me Out to the Soccer Match'

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Pro football hasn’t had a serious rival as Americans’ favorite sport since Archie Manning was an NFL quarterback rather than a sire of quarterbacks. A new Harris Poll of adults who follow at least one sport shows the game isn’t about to fumble that status. Thirty percent chose pro football as their favorite, double the number who picked baseball, the runner-up. College football (12 percent) and auto racing (10 percent) were the only other sports to score in double digits.

The poll’s findings suggest baseball has arrested the long decline in its hold on Americans’ affections.

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