If they could attend only one major sporting event in their lifetime, 35 percent of Americans would go to the Super Bowl. Nine percent have a goal of attending the World Cup, seven percent would race to see the Monaco Grand Prix, and five percent would drive a fair way to watch the Masters in person.
But the gold medal, with 38 percent goes to the granddaddy of all sporting events, the Olympic Games. It's pretty hard to compete with a history that dates back to circa 776 BC and was said to be created on the advice of the Oracle at Delphi in order to stop eternal wars and devastating plagues.