Did you know NHL fans have higher IQs?

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The NHL is considered one of the four major professional sports leagues in the USA, along with Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and the National Basketball Association. Hockey has the smallest total fan base of the four leagues, the smallest revenue from television, and the least sponsorship. In contrast, hockey is the most popular of these four major sports in Canada. The NHL fan base is also the most affluent and well educated of the four.[39] Thus, NHL season ticket prices have traditionally been higher (given the number of games per season) than the other sports.





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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NhlDid you know NHL fans have higher IQs?
lol, well...



Baseballs boring (a play every 6 minutes...what excitement!)



Football is too stop and start (pass...take a break...run...take a break...)



Basketball is just running around in a circle for 60 minutes



Soccer has 0-0 ties ALL the time



so is it any wonder that people who choose hockey are smart? of course not...they see the other sports for what they are and ignore them
First of all wikipedia isn't a reliable source. Second there are more people with a lower IQ meaning that the other sports have a much larger fan base. Plus if the fans are dumber that means the will spend more money on things at the games and during the offseason.Did you know NHL fans have higher IQs?
I've also read somewhere that football, baseball, and NASCAR fans are the alcoholics because of the stoppage in play and the boredom of watching a bunch of guys drive around an oval 400 times.
Ok, ok... Hockey fans have the highest iq?



Most hockey fans know how many times Montreal Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup (24) and when The Leafs last won the trophy (1967)...



Can name all six original NHL teams (Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins)and play street hockey blindfolded ( I SCORED!).



Also, can name why there was a stop to the season way back in the 1918/1919 season (influenza epidemic and death of Joe Hall).Did you know NHL fans have higher IQs?
Playing hockey has been compared in the past to full contact chess and I have to agree.

The best players have the ability to see 2 to 3 moves ahead and anticipate in order to make the best decisions.

Compare the percentage of professional athletes that attended ivy league colleges and I am positive that the NHL has every other sport doubled. Not saying there aren't cementheads out there, just saying, even Donald Brashear is a master of classical piano. Hell, George Parros graduated from Princeton with a degree in economics!

As far as how that transfers to fans, many fans are ex or current players who appreciate the speed and complex systems of the game and enjoy comparing the systems(forchecks, PP, PK) to systems they have run or are running. These systems take a keen eye in comparison to identifying a stationary football formation.

Whether you consider Wikipedia a reliable source or not, there are several examples of how much faster one is forced to think as a fan and as a player compared to all other major sports.

People are turned off by hockey because they are unable to grasp everything that is going on at one time on the ice and still manage keep up with the puck.
In honesty I think the smaller fan base helps. After all less people means less idiots. Actually I think it is weeding out most of the lower IQs, not that I'm complaining. Seriously I believe you have to be intelligent to understand the game and see why it is exciting. What does it really take to understand baseball for example? Guy pitches. Batter tries to hit it. Fielders try to catch it. Nothing against it but there isn't too much strategy in the way of talking about needing to know a lot. It is easy to pick up. Heck the NFL takes more to understand, because then you are trying to exploit the weakness in one on one matchups and the other team can switch who is in from one play to the next, which is a little like a line-change to get the match up you want. Not exactly the same but more then the strategy to baseball. I mean even if you talk about changing pitchers you can't change from one batter to the next. Can't keep changing to go from left handed to right handed. Could influence starters and who you use with bullpen but really not the same. Besides with most sports it seems you watch the ball. In hockey you follow the PLAY, the puck is there with it. Which is why that glow puck was seen as such a terrible idea. It drew the eyes from the play to focus more on the puck. Imagine someone trying to make a glowing baseball. It would never make sense to people. Don't even ask what I'm going on about cause I forget. I think the point though is you have to be smarter to understand the game so NHL fans have a higher IQ because otherwise they wouldn't get the game and wouldn't be fans.
Let me just throw this out there.



The NHL also has less fans. When you dilute the pool, of course the IQ will decrease. With less fans than the other big 3, you have less outliers. I.E there are less people to lower the higher marks from intelligent people.
You couldn't prove that by looking at some of their message boards.
That is the dumbest thing i have ever heard. In the old days most Hockey players did not even go to College until after their playing days were over. Hockey's fan base will grow again in the states, GO SENS