Which major sports do you consider relevant in the US?

[Sunstroke]

^^^ Scratching my head over the "commercial interruption" reasoning. Hockey is the "best" sport when it comes to commercials, as they usually don't break for that sort of thing until the end of each period, and it's easy to flip to another channel for 15 minutes to skip past the long breaks between periods. I think hockey is a great sport to watch on TV.

[Brian Fein]

^^ In a good game, yes. 

But, it seems that they go to commercial every time they get a chance, every penalty, timeout, offsides, icing, puck in the crowd - pretty much 75% of the faceoffs are coming back from commercial because they never know when they will get another stoppage.  There was a game in the finals where they didn't get a stoppage for like 18 minutes.  That's a rarity. 

In a regular game, there are a bunch of commercials, and at the stadium, there's stuff going on during that time to make if go by faster.  Not to mention the intermissions.  Its easy to lose attention through an intermission period if you have a remote control in your hand.

[SportsChick]

Hockey live rocks

[Spider-Dan]

Oh, and Canadians LOVE them some MMA too.  I read somewhere they beat out the US per capita in regards to MMA fans.

As I said earlier, 6 of the top 9 MMA events of all-time (in attendance) were held in Canada.

That being said, I've been told that hockey is also reasonably popular there.

Bad mouth GSP to one of them and see what happens.  

When Dana White recently said that GSP was "the most popular athlete in the history of Canada," Canadians were in an uproar.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

^^^ Scratching my head over the "commercial interruption" reasoning. Hockey is the "best" sport when it comes to commercials, as they usually don't break for that sort of thing until the end of each period, and it's easy to flip to another channel for 15 minutes to skip past the long breaks between periods. I think hockey is a great sport to watch on TV.

IMHO, of all sports I feel hockey and soccer have the biggest improvement in seeing them live vs on TV.  Hockey I find almost unwatchable on TV but love it in person. 

Football can actually better on TV than live, although I do enjoy the game day experience every once in a while.   

Basketball is better live, but not by much.

Baseball I pretty much ignore the game either way, I have enjoyed going to many minor league games, but typically I am socializing and drinking and not watching the game, just like I would be doing if I was at a party or bar and the game was on TV.   

[Brian Fein]

I find baseball on TV almost unwatchable.  But that's just me.  Its much better live, IMO.