Which is more popular: Bike-riding or football?

We've now passed half a million bikes on my favourite bike counter (it's the only one I know of).

Here's photo from Friday night. There were a few passers-by who had been to the football. It got me wondering. Which is more popular bike-riding or football?

So I looked up the stats. the stadium just around the corner from this bike counter is primarily for the Brisbane Broncos. According to wikipedia the total homegame crowds this season is 131,756. Add in Friday night's crowd and it's about 160,000.

With the bike counter at 521,000 it seems that bikeriding is more than 3 times as popular. And that's just on this one little piece of the bikeway network.

It's interesting that we spend so much on stadiums and so little on bikeways.

Previous posts about the counter:
250,000 people on bikes
How many bicycles?