Quelle: Google Trends vom 6. Juni 2023 bis 6. Juni 2026. Für jeden Bundesstaat werden die Prozentsätze für die fünf wichtigsten Mannschaftssportarten (American Football, Basketball, Baseball, Fußball und Eishockey) auf eine Summe von 100 % normalisiert. Alle 5 Karten verwenden die gleiche Farbskala. Die 6. Karte zeigt die gemäß den Trends-Daten beliebteste Sportart jedes Bundesstaates.
Die Google Trends-Daten decken Themen ab, also Suchbegriffe wie "Basketball", "NBA", "Lakers"usw. sind alle unter gruppiert "Basketball".
Die meisten Karten entsprechen meinen Bestätigungsvoreingenommenheiten. Ich bin überrascht, dass Baseball in den meisten Bundesstaaten relativ niedrig vertreten ist und dass Fußball in MA, NJ und NY die Nummer 1 ist. (MA könnte eine Datenanomalie sein, die durch die Weltmeisterschaft oder internationale Studierende beeinflusst wird)
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Anyone who has spent time, or lived in OK knows thats true on football. The OU vs OSU thing is insane. Often people who went to neither school are the most vocal supports of one of them. Very different than other places I have lived.
I’ve always said MLB needs another team in the south (other than FL teams) & other than the Braves. Put one in New Orleans
Notable that the 2 states with the highest football interest don’t have NFL teams
I find it impossible to believe Wisconsin is not obsessed with the Packers and question the methodology
Yes lousiana and Mississippi while they love baseball have no pro teams.
Montana really loves their college football. Going to see The Brawl of the Wild is a bucket list item.
For those wondering about the relatively low Minnesota numbers, lack of success in men’s sports will do that to a fan base.
Be interesting to see the interests in pro vs college. Coming from the south, unless you are in a metro area, people are mich bigger college fans.
Now do the same map for interest in sports gambling and see how they correlate. I’ve seen a number of people start following sports solely because they want to gamble on it.
Louisiana and Mississippi dont even have baseball teams
How does one see the complete list of search terms aggregated? Because I find it hard to believe that in a time period that the Patriots went back to the Super Bowl and their head coach was embroiled in a sex scandal, that soccer was a more-searched sport in Massachusetts.
Beyond the football angle, soccer is just not that popular. Nobody at all is talking about the World Cup, for which games will be hosted here, and I would guess half of the state couldn’t tell you the name of our MLS team.
why state with less football fans concentrated in North East,
i mean, NY state have 3 nfl team,
The most popular sport in Boston, home of the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins, is soccer?
For all those that don’t know, Boston’s soccer team is the New England Revolution, owned by Robert Kraft. They can’t fill the lower sections of Gillette during home games.
Edit: Red Sox not Ted Sox
The data doesn’t seem right. Every single Wisconsinite is a Packers fan. (Maybe 5% are not?)
There is no fucking way that soccer is number 1 in New York.
Why I love being in the New England
Is soccer really the most popular sport in Massachusetts? I grew up on the border of Mass in Connecticut and the Pats, Celtics, and Red Sox had massive following. I didn’t know I single person who cared about Premier League or the Revolution
Interest in hockey in Florida is low, yet 4 of the last 6 Stanley Cup champions are Florida teams. There is no God…
0% basketball is more popular than football in any of the Midwest states minus probably Indiana
Looks like football is an absolute leader if counting number of states where it is a leader!
Iowa’s top sport is basketball? From what I’ve noticed, it should be football.
Unless Caitlin Clark effect was able to get more people interested in the women’s basketball team over the football team.
Fantastic use of color schemes and legend in that final plot. Looks like relatively simple Basemap plots, but the color really clearly tells the story.
I bet CA is soccer-heavy because of the large Hispanic population. Then NY and NJ have had lots of buzz with World Cup being hosted at Met Life Stadium.
This map is probably most heavily influenced by what Youth Sports are popular in these states.
With Soccer, particularly girls soccer, being insanely popular across the US, and particularly in northeast and California.
This looks like it was made and posted by someone who is clueless about sports. For example, splitting this between amature, college, and/or pro sports would show completely different maps. To generalize all sports in groups like this isnt telling or showing much, its not only black and white.
Football being more popular than basketball in arizona is absolutely incorrect.
Isnt the soccer graph largely skewed by states hosting world cup games? Cant imagine these stats otherwise
Maine is definitely not most interested in basketball. Cooper Flagg (from Maine) was drafted by the NBA in 2025, which drove a big spike in searches no doubt.
Football is still the most popular sport to follow here.
California is obsessed with any sport that isn’t the NFL (unless you head to niners territory). College football in SoCal practically doesn’t exist except for Southern Cal alumni.
And IMO, in the Los Angeles area, there’s so many semi-pro soccer players. Los Angeles is the home ground for soccer in the US. It’s so strange to me why FIFA would rather elect South Florida with their thunderstorms to be the place. College football is more popular there than FIFA.
soccer leading in NY and NJ probably reflects having a dozen leagues across time zones to keep track of. football fans already know when the game is on
I’m curious how this would change on a more local basis. Some places I’ve been it seems like almost half the population wears their teams merch regularly
I’m surprised Washington isn’t more, especially for American football.
They live and breathe the Seahawks there. Blue Friday, watch parties, and you can actually go to Costco on Sunday and have it be painless if you do it during a Seahawks game.
I thought Ice Hockey was also popular in Wisconsin
It’s nonsense. “Ohio State Football” is a search counted toward soccer.
I think using the professional leagues as topics in each state would be more interesting. Soccer is over represented due to World Cup and youth sports.
is this college or pro? i suspect if the maps were separated, they would look wildly different state to state