Is Darts popular in the USA?

I do but I’m not very good, and a lot of people are a little obsessed with it, tournaments and things at local bars.

He doesn’t play, just watches it. Although, I’ve just glanced over at him and he’s asleep!

There is usually a dart board in most bars (read “pubs”) although they are not utilized that much from what I have observed. Not real popular here.
That being said, they do have tournaments from time to time in our area but they are usually confined to the patrons of a given bar.

Yes, but they are not so popular that they are televised.

Not as much as they are in the UK. Not really a “pub” game over here or a sport, more of a private pastime.

It was very popular with my kids while they were in their early 20’s.

They were popular in college. We played a lot while killing time or at night in my fraternity.

There’s a bar a mile down the road from my house with 6 dart boards. It’s the main attraction there, and people really have fun with it (but it’s not taken seriously like in the UK).

I don’t know about the rest of the country, but South Dakota has one of the largest soft tip Dart Tournaments in the world. A state with less than a million people hosts over 1000 teams every year. Only about 20% of the teams go to the state tournament.

We do play soft tip on electronic boards, which is a little different from the steel tip they play on TV.

Dart competition is pretty intense in San Antonio, Texas where there is a whole community into that activity. They have dart teams teams (men, women and mixed), clubs and leagues. My wife and I lived there for 1½ years and a women tried to get my wife to join her dart team.

We have them in some bars/pubs here (Calgary, AB) and I’ve seen games on TV. I have a dart board and darts myself. I sometimes play when I’m thinking about stuff or need to take a break from studying.

He musta bin watchin the premier league darts eh @Headhurts?
The yanks had one top player years ago, Paul Lim, fired a 9 dart finish at the world championship one time. A couple of pro touurnaments are held in the states, but like with football/cricket/rugby/golf & tennis over here in england town, it’s never going to compete with baseball/basketball & nfl.
The dutch are absolutely darts crazy, play in clogs too…which is nice.

@ucme Yes he was. When the Darts is over, it will be something else.

@Headhurts Aye, on every Thursday night only a coupe of weeks left now like.
Last nights was in newcastle, up near my neck of the woods…pet :-)