Replying to Freestyle skiing popularity currenty= when was snoboarding popularity equal to that

yea i was jus thinkin the other day as far as freestyle skiings popularity now goes when was snoboarding equal(ex;93,94) i think this kind of an intersting thing to figure out as a judge to see when the sport will achive things like the olympics and the huge popularity snoboarding has now. or do u guys think that our sport will ever be as big as snoboarding is now?