Hockey is the only other sport I actively follow. For casual viewing the odd NFL game, and I keep an eye on the Tour de France ever year.
I used to follow other sports, in addition to soccer. Primarily NFL and some college football. Now I only follow soccer.
Nope, only soccer. I'll follow some NFL playoff matches online. I did catch that amazing end of the Super Bowl this year but not the first half. I do follow MLS, La Liga, Bundesliga and the EPL which is more than enough sport than I have time for
Generally a pretty big sports fan as a whole. In the past was a massive San Diego Chargers fan and also followed the wider NFL pretty avidly. But barely watched an NFL game last year, and don't plan on watching any this season. I have found myself watching a lot more college football, also casually watch the NBA, and NHL. Hoping the Padres have a decent season to give me an excuse to follow baseball and try and get back into it. Like some international sports too including F1, Rugby, and follow some of the big bike races like Tour de France, and Paris-Roubaix. But at the moment most of my sports watching energy is spent on watching soccer and all of it's many competitions.
I guess I'm into entirely into the regular seasons of sports, it's the playoffs that I'm really into.
I tend to support my local teams. But mostly MLS/ Sounders and then Gonzaga men's basketball team. I grew up in Spokane and now live in Tacoma. I still will root for Spokane teams over anything else on the west side of the state. WSU over UW in anything for instance. Or the Spokane Shadow over anyone in EPLWa play and now NPSL play as well.
Hockey - Flyers, USA Hockey Football - Eagles, Oklahoma Sooners, Michigan Basketball - Sixers Baseball - Fallen out of love, Phillies
I follow college basketball, college football, and the USMNT heavily. I follow the 49ers, Warriors, and the Giants slightly more casually. And the Sharks and college baseball as a casual fan. Pretty big sports fan.
NFL College Football NBA but mostly when the playoffs start. NCAA basketball but mostly when the Conference Tournaments start. MLB NHL mostly during the Playoffs. Various Olympic sports.
Baseball. That's all I really have time for. I still like hockey but I don't follow it, and I find that I have completely lost all interest in or patience for football or basketball.
The World Baseball Classic is coming up soon. American baseball fans can watch the USA half-ass their way through this just like the previous 3 editions.
As time goes by I've become less interested in watching sports. They fade one by one. The only one that still excites passion is soccer. That said, to be sociable with family or friends, I'll keep track of sufficiently significant moments in other sports they may care about. For example, when one of them makes a reference to 34-28 I'm not completely clueless...
Lurker going back to the 2002 World Cup. Not to say that this applies to all people who exclusively follow soccer (it doesn't), but these boards used to feature a lot more complaints about other sports, and contrivances like calling the NFL "gridiron" or American football. It might have been a minority even then, but it was a more vocal one. I think the move away from the non-soccer hostility on bigsoccer is a huge positive. One, soccer fans seem to have less of a chip on their shoulder and less to be defensive about (who remembers how heavy a shadow Jim Rome cast over the early 2000s bigsoccer psyche?). Two, hopefully soccer fandom is broadening to include more typical sports fans, the kind who don't find ways to complain about how baseball players aren't real athletes or call things "shite." I find that American soccer-fandom still trends a bit too close to European cosplay for my taste. That's a very long way of saying I also follow other sports, particularly the NFL, college football, and college basketball.
Big NFL fan. Listen to almost nothing but NFL radio and SiriusXMFC in the car. Also a big MLB, college football, NHL, college basketball, tennis, summer and winter Olympic sports, sometimes even rugby or lacrosse fan. Go back and look at the last 3 rosters and see how many of those players got hurt in the 2 years following the WBC. Then you'll understand why the best players like Kershaw and Scherzer skip it. Even guys like Gio Gonzalez who stay healthy often have their careers slowly decline after playing in it.
I used to be a big NFL fan...not anymore. I pretty much catch some Orioles scores in summer/spring/fall and watch the NBA playoffs.
I follow college football and keep up with scores in college basketball. I used to go to all of my schools football games (home and away), but that has faded as I've gotten older. Don't even have season tickets to basketball anymore
I'd be curious what some of the millennials have to say about this. I'd also be interested in everyone ranking their favorite sports in order. I read that soccer is the 2nd favorite sport for millennials (behind the NBA for some ungodly reason)
I was born in 1998 and this is my order. 1.Hockey 2.Soccer 3.Football 4.Baseball 5.Basketball I still like them all.
Sounds like a weak excuse to me. By that logic, soccer players could just as easily say that about the World Cup. In fact, any athlete in any sport could say that about their respective sport's world championship.
That sounds like an argument made by someone who doesn't follow baseball. I've been studying injuries resulting from the WBC since it started for fantasy purposes. It's so well known that players get hurt from it that MLB has had to put new rules in every year to try to prevent injuries
FIFA are lucky that the World Cup already had huge prestige by the time the European Cup (what the UEFA Champions League used to be called) was created. If not it might be treated the same way the World Baseball Classic is.