Daytona 500

[Lazymeatball]

I'm pretty sure Nascar has the highest viewership of any sport in the US. So is anyone else watching the Daytona 500?

Is there anyone on here informed enough to give relevant commentary?

[slickpoppa]

Nascar is for hicks

[Vince Young]

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I'm pretty sure Nascar has the highest viewership of any sport in the US.

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What?

[pshreck]

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I'm pretty sure Nascar has the highest viewership of any sport in the US.

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This is wrong. It's the NFL. This is popular, but no football.

[Lazymeatball]

According to this article from 10/07/03
Nascar is second to the NFL. Still it's popularity is growing. The Daytona 500 might have the greatest attendance of any sporting event in the country, maybe the world. Can anyone shed some light on this?

[Brainwalter]

I heard they're expecting 1/4 million fans, but surely some south american soccer matches or something have bigger attendance I would think.

[ChoicestHops]

There are way too many rednecks.

[usmfan]

I'm watching and playing some 6 max.

[Corey]

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According to this article from 10/07/03
Nascar is second to the NFL. Still it's popularity is growing. The Daytona 500 might have the greatest attendance of any sporting event in the country, maybe the world. Can anyone shed some light on this?

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The only light I have to shed is that NASCAR events have the highest attendence of any sporting event because the sport lends itself to large capacities. If any other sport had a 2.5 mile long playing field, they would be able to build and fill 500,000 seat stadiums for the most premier events. However, the nature of most sports lends itself to small satdiums.

[Corey]

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I heard they're expecting 1/4 million fans, but surely some south american soccer matches or something have bigger attendance I would think.

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As a somewhat devount soccer fan, I know south america has come close to 250k. The 1950 world cup was reported to be 200k, but was actually much higher. Every modern stadium is much smaller than that.

How many people go to the Kentucky Derby? Please ignore the fact that 95% of the people can't actually see the race.