upstater1

You mean Landon?

The NHL is a niche sport but ice hockey is still m ore popular than soccer in northern cities like Minneapolis, Buffalo, Detroit, Boston, etc.

Here in Buffalo, the kids are excellent at hockey, boys and girls, and they play teams from Toronto regularly. It's no accident that the #1 choice in the world from the last draft grew up playing in Buffalo.

So, yes, Soccer is more popular in the US except for northern cities where ice hockey is still pretty big. All of New England, upstate NY, parts of Pa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, Minnesota, Chicago area. Those are the hockey hotbeds.

oldskool138

Wembley Stadium has a retractable roof.

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Big-T

It doesn't fully close, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff has a retractable roof though.

shmessy

Ouch!

Talk about slipping on a banana peel!

That kind of screwed up my own point!

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shmessy

Aside from Massachusetts (barely) and Colorado those are the dying/losing population parts of the U.S.

And even in Boston or Chicago, the local hockey team is a distant (and falling) fourth place.

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Eugene Chung

Hockey has certainly had a tough go of it since the lockout. While certain bigger markets seem to have strong followings, the popularity still seems to lag a little bit behind other sports. However, hockey has seen a big uptick over the past couple seasons. (See Update: Impressive Growth of Television Ratings, Corporate Sales and NHL.com Traffic Highlight Continued Business Momentum of the NHL(R) Through First 100 Games of the 2009-10 Regular Season | SYS-CON INDIA) Ratings and attendance are up according to the figures and that's with DirectTV taking Versus out of its lineup. Still a long ways to go.

And I don't follow the MLS too much, but it's impressive to me that cities like Toronto and Seattle are outdrawing their baseball counterparts.

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Synovia

Chicago (where I am now) certainly. NE? I'm not so sure. The Bruins attendance is awful.

Eugene Chung

Awful is pretty strong. B's are at 95% paid attendance this year. NHL Attendance Leaders - National Hockey League - ESPN

Granted, actual attendance (and this is purely a guess on my own end), is probably around 75%-85%. I know that NESN's hockey ratings are up (don't have the exact number) and that the 2nd game of the year was the highest rated Bruins opener for NESN in 25 years. Like I said before, still a longs way to go before it gets to the NBA level.

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Scouse Patriot

That patronising attitude towards British fans gets on my t!ts.

gomezcat

Couldn't agree more. I'm agreeing with a Scouser. What is the world coming to?

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