Could it be true nascar is as popular as professional football ?

May be...

Well it is only second to them. So there is a great possibility that it could pass football up. I know for a fact that NASCAR is more popular in my household than football.

It's not even close according to TV ratings. Regular season football games on Sunday afternoon get ratings equal or higher than the Daytona 500. I love NASCAR, but it's actually losing popularity I think.

To the guy who says NASCAR has a higher "at venue" audience you're a liar. Lets just say(for fun) that NASCAR has 300,000 fans at every race. That comes out to 10,800,000 fans all season with 36 races. This is an overestimation by far as only a couple of venues hold that many. Now take the NFL. 32 teams, 16 games for 16 weeks(256) times the amount in each stadium. We'll underestimate for football and say stadiums average 50,000 (even the smallest stadium holds more than 50,000). The total is still 2,000,000 higher than NASCAR for one season.

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As long as stations like ABC (the worldwide leader in sports...HA!) continues to down play our sport by cutting to stuff like Americas Funniest Home Videos, then no.

I don't think so (yet), but football is a lot more popular in America.

yup very ppossible

why not!

for me NASCAR is more popular than football.

Nascar is the number one spectator sport in the country. TV ratings aren't everything. You need to look at how many people attend the races as well, and Nascar draws larger crowds.

Currently no. The NFL is still better (ratings) than NASCAR.

NASCAR has the #2 television audience (2nd to the NFL) & the NFL is 2nd to at-venue audience (2nd to NASCAR).

Yes, it is very possible.

It's the second most viewed sport next to Football so i'd say it is indeed pert near as popular.

no, not even close. i love both, but the TV ratings don't lie. football is way more popular than any other sport in america

NASCAR fans at the race and TV audience is dropping and Footballs is going up. Some JJ fan said more people attend the Daytona 500 than superbowl which is true but forgot (low IQ) say the world wide TV audience is about 50 times larger for the superbowl. Oh also I do not see NFL doing any cutting back and I cannot remember a sponsor dropping NFL for golf.

Maybe someday but right now the NFL is the undisputed most popular, most attended, most viewed and sells the most merchandise in the U.S. NASCAR is 2nd.
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I heard that too. I didn't believe it but more people attend the daytona 500 than the super bowl.

If it hasn't - it soon will!

NASCAR has suffered for it a little though. It is no longer as purely exciting as it used to be, because it got too safe! Now, I don't wish anybody bad will, but these new generation cars aren't at all aggressive, and the bodies all look the same unless you're looking at them directly from the front!king sooper colorado