This chart will help you answer ‘Is it a sport?’
Finally we have the answer.
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
Chart via Imgur
Football, basketball, baseball, hockey. We know these are sports, there’s no doubting it -- but what about some more fringe activities we don’t talk about all the time? Reddit took a poll of people to find out their opinions on whether certain things were sports, now there’s a graph that helps us see what are sports, and which are pretenders.
There are some interesting results by opening this up to a public poll.
- 67 percent of respondents say Formula 1 racing is a sport, but that drops to 59 percent for NASCAR.
- Ultimate Frisbee is considered more of a sport than six sports that are eligible at the Olympic or Winter Olympic games.
- 75 percent of people say Jai Alai is a sport, which means 25 percent of people don’t know what Jai Alai is. Definitely a sport.
- More people think bowling is a sport than rock climbing.
- Sorry poker.
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