Be careful what sport you watch, as it may project a certain image:
Baseball: Traditional, old fashioned American white male. You don't like anything "extreme" or "in your face", you prefer careful statistical analysis in your sports. Probably thinks Obama is a socialist. Wishes that the good old days would return. Will die out in the next 20-30 years.
Football: Patriotic flag waving middle America meathead, wants to see sports where there are at least 5 "Salute our troops" moments per minute of broadcast. Thinks Obama is a muslim foreigner. Hates anything not American, or at least disdains it, especially soccer. They are likely to have no passport and enjoy drinking beer. They think that eating cheese other than processed cheese slices is too fancy, and Dijon is a sissy version of mustard. Likely to go out of their way to prove how macho they are.
Basketball: For the cool hip kids, high percentage of the fanbase is African-American. Likely failed to enter college, although there is a new class of basketball faux-intellectuals like Bill Simmons. These people love hip hop and pretend to know about things like hip hop history even though they likely know nothing about it. If they are college fans, they're likely to think that they're like european soccer fans with their chants and body paint/synchronized cheering. They are likely to be white if college fans, black if NBA fans.
Hockey: White people exclusively. Mostly Canadians, or people who have family in Canada. They can't understand why Hockey isn't more popular in America, after all its fast hard hitting and highly skilled. They probably resent the MLB, NBA and NFL for having vastly more fans. Most are lighlty socialist. Think their sport is the epitome of toughness, and try to promote their sport by highlighting fights. They don't realize that these staged fights just make people respect hockey as a sport less than as a sideshow.
Nascar: Rednecks. Mostly southern states. Know for a fact that Obama is a socialist muslim foreigner spy run by the Kenyan government in a secret pact with North Korea to destroy America. Impressed with mechanical power, think that driving a car takes athleticism. Likely to be morbidly obese.
Soccer: Although there are more soccer fans in the world than football, basketball, baseball, hockey and nascar combined, most soccer fans in America feel like a tiny persecuted minority that gets hated on. This is mostly because they are liberal elitist snobs who only like soccer because it makes them feel cosmopolitan and because they are europhiles. Almost certain to be socialist, highly liberal and probably huge supporters of Obama. Think liking a boring third world sport makes them superior to American sports fans. Get made fun of by normal sports fans (NFL/MLB/NBA). Many played soccer in high school and resent the football jocks for beating them up because they were immigrants or skinny weak little white soccer players. Highly uncool in America, but ironically supercool everywhere else.
MMA: Overwhelmingly 15-25 year old white douchebags. Love Ed Hardy, like the Jersey shore douchebags think that their most important thing is protein powder and that they would actually win in fights because they spend 10 hours a day lifting weights. Most sports fans don't consider the MMA to be a real sport, which makes the MMA douches take offense and want to expand the sport to be something mainstream.
Cricket: Brown people who haven't assimilated yet. Very few of them.
Rugby: Upper class college douchebag liberals who like to wear pleated jerseys. Like to say that rugby is tougher than football, not realizing that the NFL beasts would destroy any rugby player.
Olympics: Mostly women who want to see sob stories about underappreciated amateur athletes.
Baseball: Traditional, old fashioned American white male. You don't like anything "extreme" or "in your face", you prefer careful statistical analysis in your sports. Probably thinks Obama is a socialist. Wishes that the good old days would return. Will die out in the next 20-30 years.
Football: Patriotic flag waving middle America meathead, wants to see sports where there are at least 5 "Salute our troops" moments per minute of broadcast. Thinks Obama is a muslim foreigner. Hates anything not American, or at least disdains it, especially soccer. They are likely to have no passport and enjoy drinking beer. They think that eating cheese other than processed cheese slices is too fancy, and Dijon is a sissy version of mustard. Likely to go out of their way to prove how macho they are.
Basketball: For the cool hip kids, high percentage of the fanbase is African-American. Likely failed to enter college, although there is a new class of basketball faux-intellectuals like Bill Simmons. These people love hip hop and pretend to know about things like hip hop history even though they likely know nothing about it. If they are college fans, they're likely to think that they're like european soccer fans with their chants and body paint/synchronized cheering. They are likely to be white if college fans, black if NBA fans.
Hockey: White people exclusively. Mostly Canadians, or people who have family in Canada. They can't understand why Hockey isn't more popular in America, after all its fast hard hitting and highly skilled. They probably resent the MLB, NBA and NFL for having vastly more fans. Most are lighlty socialist. Think their sport is the epitome of toughness, and try to promote their sport by highlighting fights. They don't realize that these staged fights just make people respect hockey as a sport less than as a sideshow.
Nascar: Rednecks. Mostly southern states. Know for a fact that Obama is a socialist muslim foreigner spy run by the Kenyan government in a secret pact with North Korea to destroy America. Impressed with mechanical power, think that driving a car takes athleticism. Likely to be morbidly obese.
Soccer: Although there are more soccer fans in the world than football, basketball, baseball, hockey and nascar combined, most soccer fans in America feel like a tiny persecuted minority that gets hated on. This is mostly because they are liberal elitist snobs who only like soccer because it makes them feel cosmopolitan and because they are europhiles. Almost certain to be socialist, highly liberal and probably huge supporters of Obama. Think liking a boring third world sport makes them superior to American sports fans. Get made fun of by normal sports fans (NFL/MLB/NBA). Many played soccer in high school and resent the football jocks for beating them up because they were immigrants or skinny weak little white soccer players. Highly uncool in America, but ironically supercool everywhere else.
MMA: Overwhelmingly 15-25 year old white douchebags. Love Ed Hardy, like the Jersey shore douchebags think that their most important thing is protein powder and that they would actually win in fights because they spend 10 hours a day lifting weights. Most sports fans don't consider the MMA to be a real sport, which makes the MMA douches take offense and want to expand the sport to be something mainstream.
Cricket: Brown people who haven't assimilated yet. Very few of them.
Rugby: Upper class college douchebag liberals who like to wear pleated jerseys. Like to say that rugby is tougher than football, not realizing that the NFL beasts would destroy any rugby player.
Olympics: Mostly women who want to see sob stories about underappreciated amateur athletes.
