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Football Owns Your Life: The Most-Viewed Sporting Events So Far This Year

by Evan Sporer | 11:15 am, July 13th, 2012

It’s July folks, and we’re past the halfway point in 2012. It’s been a crazy year in sports, characterized by scandal, drama, and a lot of really awesome games. Here’s to another five-plus months of amazing sports.

The people at Sports Media Watch completed a table of the most watched sporting events of the year so far. Not surprisingly, the NFL dominates the list. The 12 most-viewed sporting events of the year were all football games. The NFL appears on the list 16 times. Your most watched game of 2012 was—again, to no one’s surprise—the Giants-Patriots Super Bowl, which beat out the rest of the field by a considerable margin. Comparably, Game 5 of the NBA Finals—the most watched basketball game of the year, and 17th place on the list—drew a crowd of almost 100,000,000 fewer viewers. Yup – folks, we’re a football country.

Here’s the complete list:

Via Sports Media Watch
h/t Deadspin

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the saddest part about this list is that nascar actually had enough viewers to make it on the list not once, not twice, not three times, but FOUR times. If you ask me that is four times to many