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    It’s official, the National Football League is the most popular sport in America. It has taken baseball’s position as America’s past time. There was once a time where baseball generated the most revenue of all sports in America. But now things are different, Football generates the most revenue. In the 2008 seasons for MLB, NBA, NHL, and the NFL all together they generated over 20 billion dollars just in that one season. Football reigned as the overall king racking in 7.58 billion dollars of revenue, with baseball coming in a distant second at 5.82 billion. The information and graph is provided by Forbes magazine, which is a reliable business magazine thus meaning the graph is accurate as well. The data of the graph is complete they have found the total revenue for the each of the four major sports. The only question I have is that, what would the revenues look like now that we are in a recession, still I am assuming they make an implausible amount. Doing an overall revenue graph would not make sense because baseball has been around much longer than all other sports so it would not be informative. The only thing that the graph helps one understand is something that is blatant, that football is king in America, no other sport get the participation numbers and no other sport gets the attention football does.