No Favorite National Past Time in the U.S.

Okay so there is no single favorite American past time, sports speaking. Of course for decades we Americans have been fond of saying that baseball is the favorite American past time but seeing how thoroughly inculturated football (our soccer) is in the lives of British youth, I have realized that no single sport occupies that place in the U.S. I guess "favorite past time" is subject to one's own definition but I would define it, in the sports world, maybe as a game that is so widely played, admired, and embedded in a culture that from childhood to adulthood, it is the default sport for everyone. For example, last night (Monday night) I headed over to the Bridge Methodist for their Monday youth open recreation night. I took Steven, a young adult from Whitefield Church with me. There were probably 25 youth there in all, nearly all were boys ages 11-14. We played a pickup game of basketball with about 4 on each team. The rest of the guys played on computers in a lab they have there and the rest sort of wandered around. Then one of them said, "let's play football" and you would have thought that boys came out of the walls to be a part of that game. In a small half basketball court 25 boys divided into teams and we played football (again, we're talking American soccer here). These boys were awesome and intense.
At one point, one of the adult volunteers, maybe 50ish age, attempted to cross the court to go to another part of the building. The ball happen to come his way and he instinctively tapped the ball with the side of his foot, and did some other fancy foot trick like it was no big deal. No doubt an instinctive reaction from years of football inculturation. Football is the British past time. In the British newspaper, the Guardian, the first seven pages of the sports section are devoted to football. Cricket and tennis get a page or two each to round out the section. Some locals here are fans of Manchester United. Many more are fans of the Manchester City Team , also a professional team. Football is the favorite national past time of England.
In the U.S. we have any number of sports that could qualify as a favorite past time - American football, baseball, basketball, NASCAR or even golf; but since all of them could qualify as a favorite national past time, then none of them can. Only one sport can occupy that space to be the favorite. So I've concluded, we have lots of entertaining sports that occupy the passion, attention, and money of Americans of all ages, but the day is gone that just one can be called our favorite American past time.

PS. I announced at church in both places Sunday that I also wanted to learn to play cricket. So, I was invited afterward to go one Thursday very soon, to a local seniors league (good place to start) with a guy in the Whitefield church. There is an African professional player who coaches them. Pretty cool.