Right on!!!

My astute 10 year old remarked (when he found out that Fox was preempting its regular programming for baseball) "Who cares about baseball?"

Indeed. Who cares what a bunch of overpaid, over-hyped, crotch-grabbing, tobacco-spitting, steroid-injecting, self-indulgent ball players do. This country makes heroes out of morons that happen to be good at throwing and hitting balls. Big whup!

Let me explain: most of the time during a football game, something is happening on the field. Most of the time during a baseball game, nothing is happening on the field. Simple as that.

Perhaps because it is November, baseball in November just doesn't sound right. PHILLIES IN SEVEN!!! MARK MY WORDS!!!

Ok, and football players aren't shooting steroids? They smack each others butts, is that worse than adjusting your own crotch? And wooo, football players aren't self indulgent in the least.... Trey, you should stop typing what you think, it makes you seem ... ................ Well dumb.

Annette H. - Are you serious? If it wasn't for television showing 15 different instant replays after each play, you'd probably see that NOTHING is happening during the 40 seconds after a play. If you go to a football game the delay is even more evident. They sit around doing nothing for 40 seconds after a play is over. Its pretty boring. I agree that at times baseball can be slow, depending on the pitcher, but the anticipation that is built right before a big pitch is far greater than 90% of what a football game delivers. I like football but I love baseball, as spectator sports, to me they don't compare.

Astute is, as astute does. Thanks dad.

It's easy to see that the youngest of potential baseball fans are losing interest when they are not able to watch the World Series because of the hour it's telecast on the east coast. No daytime ball games at all this year. I too am losing interest when I can't see an entire game because the next day is a work day.
All about money and ratings, not the fans.

Yeah, Jim, I have to agree with you. I'm a West Coast viewer, and I feel so bad for the East Coast fans. Some games go on and on and on -- little kids, let alone adults, at a game lasting until well after midnight on a weekday? How DO the networks decide what time to telecast?

Basball has been dead since the strike. And is STILL dead!

When I was a kid, we watched the series in school. It was a learning experience, got all of us involved in something outside of the classroom and the house.

So much for that. These kids don't know what it is to go out and play, much less get interested in or participate in a sport. FatNHappy,,that's today's generation.

It's a bad comparison. Part of the ratings for football, college or pro, comes from how few games are actually played. If you look at how many mlb tickets are bought, or how many viewers watch throughout the year, it isn't even close. America spends way more money on baseball than football. The arguments about which game is better to watch is irrelevant. I watch all four major sports, and many others. They complement each other, it isn't a war between them. For youth, baseball is a more inclusive game. A larger amount of kids simply don't have the ability or desire to play contacts sports or hoops.

You noted that baseball is regional, and that any one game for football is more important than baseball games. I can understand, but we are talking mid season matchup for football beating a wold series game. The comment was that football has usurped baseball as America's, which is a true statement. Regardless of the reason, the statement is correct.

I agree with plankton - there shouldn't be any war between these 2 games. Their both fun to watch.

#1 gripe about baseball - bastard pitchers who take their sweet ass time between pitches even when nobody is on.

#1 gripe about football - the inability for players to control themselves when the game is on the line. I'm sick of seeing teams march down the field behind penalties just because these players can't control their tempers(personal fouls/15 yarders) during key moments....BASTARDOS!!!

#1 gripe about hockey - canadian sport. Sometimes makes hockey unwatchable when I remember the canadian influence. Canadians and their bitterness towards the states makes me hate hockey.

Record a football game, then fast-forward through all the commercials, huddles, time outs, etc. I'll be shocked if it takes even 1/2 hour to watch the game.

MOst of the time something is happening in a football game? Are you serious? I would estimate that there is actually about 15 minutes of action during a 3 1/2 hour football game. The rest is huddling, time outs and commercial after commercial after comercial.

I think a lot of this has to do with accessibility. Football is still on the major networks, and baseball, for the most part, is not. If you don't follow baseball through the season, why would you care about the playoffs?

Exactly, who cares if football is more popular? The problem is these proclamations always lead to writers and fans declaring that the sport is dead and needs radical changes to be relevant again. Baseball may not be number one in the ratings but it is still watched by millions and kills football in season long attendance.

Nobody is comparing NBA or NHL ratings to football, so why is baseball always the dummy bag, whether it be steroids, tv ratings, player salaries, etc.?

most of the time during a football game, something is happening on the field.

You mean other than the 40 seconds between each play? And the endless timeouts between possessions? Seriously, have you actually ever watched a football game.

I love both sports, but the idea that football is so action packed is absurd. The only sport where the pace is pretty much non-stop fast is hockey, and the NHL is not exactly doing gangbusters financially.

Baseball is not played on a level playing field. Big market teams and their fans will not admit it but facts are facts - parity is an illusion. How many years should we tolerate rooting for small market teams (nothing more than farm clubs nowadays) like the Pirates who haven't a fair chance to get and keep the caliber of players "bought" by the big market teams?

Art Rooney positioned football to become the national pastime when he refused to cave in to the large market teams - he demanded that all teams "share". The NFL is balanced and exiting, where teams are limited only by talent and desire.

You Yankee fans don't think much of the small market whiners complaining about a sport dominated by deep pocket teams, huh? Don't worry, sooner or later the small markets will either force the issue or go belly up and take their bats and balls and go home. Then, your Yankees can go play with themselves!

Football is FAR more interesting from a strategy perspective. There are gobs of decisions made on every play that make it fascinating from everyone's perspective... For a coach it's run or pass? punt or go for it on 4th? which unit do I send out? which formation do I set up? Blitz or drop back? how many in the box? For a quarterback do I stick with this play or call an audible? who do I throw to? scramble or throw it away? For a running back do I shoot the hole or bounce to the outside? lower my shoulder or hurdle? Not only that, but EVERY player is involved in EVERY play in someway. For the ref it's was that a fumble or was his knee down? was that a catch or did it hit the ground? did the ball break the plane? etc. Thats why they can show 5 replays of each play... because there is ALWAYS something to analyze.

In baseball decisions range from throwing a curve ball or a fast ball? keep this pitcher or call in a backup? walk barry bonds or pitch to him? fair or fowl? throw home or get the force? When a ball is hit to left field, what does the right fielder do? Nothing. He could have been picking daisies and it wouldn't make an ounce of difference. Baseball is BORING.

Not to mention most touchdowns are FAR more exciting than most home runs. About the only play in baseball that can remotely compare to a big play in football in terms of excitement is a play at home.

You don't really have to guess or fast forward to find out how much action there really is in a football game. A few years ago someone actually studied this, and taking away all of the time when people were just standing around, and counting only the time when a play was in progress, there was something less than 15 minutes of action in a typical NFL game. 5 replays of an incomplete pass from 5 different angles doesn't count. Thats why I hate watching a football game. Endless replays of unimportant action, and endless interruptions for commercials. No wonder they need to put bigger and bigger video screens in the stadiums...how else are the fans gonna be entertained???!!!

Actually, there is maybe 4-6 seconds, on average, per football play and then 25-30 seconds of nothing while the team huddle and then line up for the next play.

Baseball has more action than football. Baseball: 8m50s of actual game for every hour that passes in real time Football: 4m54s of actual game is played for every hour in real time -
This is from a study, I wish I can remember where. I will try to locate it.

Just some "mid season matchup," Ryan? Hardly. Brett Favre's return to Lambeau was the most anticipated regular season game of the year, and the game ended up going down to the wire. Of course it was going to have ratings through the roof. By contrast, the World Series game, while definitely pivotal, was not a potential clincher.

Well-said, Mr. Calcaterra. A football game is a bigger event than a baseball game. It is made for Sunday afternoons, conducive to social get-togethers, grilling, office pools, etc. The Packers-Vikings game you referenced was a division rivalry with a pretty compelling storyline. It was FOX's most-watched regular season game since 1995. Game 4 of the World Series that same drew a 13.5 rating, which would have been among the highest-rated Monday Night Football games ever.
The title of "national pastime" is both ambiguous and subjective, but the point is that baseball is not in trouble. Many Americans, myself included, are fans of both sports and don't understand the bitterness of one towards the other.

I used to love watching baseball when I was growing up. And then the early 1990s came and it all ended. I was about 9 years old at the time when it started - the Pirates began their impending spiral to hell.

If you want to call it fairweather behavior, whatever. It's more engrained than that. It's hard to be interested in something where the news is never anything but bad or worse. Obviously, you can't blame it completely on economic disparities across the league and other league-related factors (bad management over the years messed things up just as much), but it's a shame either way. There's a whole generation of people my age who view the Pirates almost as an afterthought. Some older folks talk about how Pittsburgh used to be a baseball city. I wasn't around during such times, but it's difficult to imagine.

It's not just the success of the other teams in the city. I'd go to see a Steelers or Pens game when either of those teams weren't doing that well, because I knew that things wouldn't be bad forever and that there was at least something to root for. I hope the Pirates improve soon, and there seems to be some optimism about the future of the team. Until then ... well, I guess the closest thing we'll have to a supportable contender is the Phillies, at least judging by the number of fans supporting each team when they play at PNC Park.

I agree. To all the football fans who complain about the "dead time" in baseball; does this sound familiar? Five (or more) minutes of commercials followed by a kickoff into the end zone then back to... you guessed it: five more minutes of commercials. The NFL is a ridiculously over-hyped league that has turned sport into an "In your face" video game type of product. Just because it is more popular than baseball means nothing; Im sure Britney Spears has outsold Ella Fitzgerald.

Football may be America's most popular sport, but Baseball is certainly its most beloved sport.

"Popularity only measures what's popular. It's almost always completely divorced from what's good."

Craig - that's one of the best quotes I've read in a long time. Great insight.

OK, so you are not a baseball fan, Kyle. Perhaps if you paid the slightest bit of attention to the game, you would find that the strategy moves you mock, like pitch selection or when to bring in a reliever, are just as interesting as football decisions. And what does a wide receiver do on a handoff to a running back?

Ever been to an NFL game? I wouldn't dream of bringing my kids to that drunk-fest. I like both sports, but they are very different. Baseball requires a little knowledge to enjoy-there is plenty of strategy and decision making.
And baseball players are waaaay better behaved than the NFL players, both on and off the field. How many murderers and dog killers are there in MLB?

It is not the "excitement factor". They are both exciting in their own way. How many seconds of this or that? Who cares! Competition is exciting - real competition that is!

Remember the song? "Root, root, root for the home team..."

People and towns identify with their teams and people feel like winners when their teams are honest winners. I think many other people are tired of the same arrogant teams seeming to dominate the MLB playoffs for all the wrong reasons. Revenue sharing and salary caps is the only thing that will save baseball.

Jim-remember Tampa Bay in the World Series? Parity isn't all its cracked up to be. Baseball has always had big market teams ruling the roost. That what makes it exciting, when a smaller team does well-like the Rockies, for instance. There certainly isn't parity in the NFL these days.

I'm not sure that baseball really needs any saving. The sport is economically healthy and while 08-09 were down years in attendance(maybe due to poor economy), years 03-07 were great up years in attendance. I'm not a yankee fan but I do notice that a lot of people complain about the yankees buying this and buying that but the truth of the matter is that salary is no indication of performance. They don't win every year anyway so whats the hooplah all about? I feel bad for all the pirate fans and the royal fans but the fans of those teams should really look at the owners. I can understand that they'll never afford the A-Rods of the world but teams have made playoff runs without that kind of salary before so there is no reason to be sellers any time the trading deadline comes around. For ex. Pirates of 08 - Jason Bay, Damaso Marte, Xavier Nady all traded. Cornerstones to what could be a franchise just given away for the hope of another prospect. I find it hard to believe that they can't afford any players (no proof of that though).

Baseball= booooorrrrriinnnggggg

NBA/NFL= not boring

Hey ya'll, what about Nascar? Now there's a sport. Plenty of action all the time. Ya got yur accidents, yur speeden on pit road penalties, yur tire changin. Good clean fun for the whole clan.

Sure, football has some down time between plays. But at least all 22 players on the field actually do something during each football play. In baseball, most of the players just stand there waiting for something to come their way. And offensively, a maximum of 4 players can be on the field at any given time. Maybe people think baseball is more boring than football because there just isn't as much going on.

very brave John to have the stones to predict the Phillies in 7 after 5 games in.... I am going to be as astute....New Orlean's Saints will go 8-0!

The thing is, it is easy to be an nfl fan. You sit on your ass all day, one day a week,get drunk and your a superfan. The vast majority of Americans do not have the brains or thought process to follow baseball over the course of a week let alone 120 games a season. This is why the ratings are better, or it is "more popular" Personally I can't watch football, it's boring and lame. Nothing says homosexual like watching a bunch of dudes in spandex try to wrestle with eachother. Perhaps if most people wern't drunk during this spectacle, they would realize this.

NBA not boring? Right, because there's nothing more exciting than watching 2 teams combine to score 140 points in a game....

Where do you get off writing a column I agree with Craig?

In all seriousness, you couldn't pay me to watch an NFL game. Baseball is my number 1 sport, followed by hockey and basketball.

NBA? what about all the whistles that stop play. Its hard to find a single drive that doens't include a whistle. Please lets keep the NBA out of this b\c when it comes to boring the final 2 min of an NBA game takes the cake. 3 million timeouts with commercials for each. It takes 30 min to get through the final 30 seconds of play. Don't get me wrong I like basketball, but there is no way that baseball is more boring than basketball.

That's curious. I'm pretty sure I watched a game last night.

Well said Jim.

I will not support baseball until they get their head out of their arse and level the playing field. You cannot have free agency with without a salary cap.

Yankee's winning a championship doesn't mean anything if you have that deep of a pocket to buy it. Hell, anybody could do that given those resources. It should be extremely embarrassing it took this long since the last championship spending 200M+ per year.

They still play baseball??? j/k

For the few that said there would only be half an hour or less of action in football if you took away the time outs, huddles, etc.
There are 4 quarters in football, 15 minutes each. Do the math. The game drags on due to TV timeouts to run those obnoxious commercials.

A-dog..... I'm 55 years old. I'll play a pro game of baseball, and you play a pro game of football, then we'll discuss which game difines homosexual, if you're still able.

nothing happening on a base ball field? have you ever timed the action in a football game? 3 hours and 15 minutes of game time and exactly 12 to 15 minutes of plays. in baseball , every pitch is a possible hit or an out. check it out sometime.

Too bad that football players are just as bad if not even worse. I would rather have my child be both a "crotch-grabbing and tobacco-spitting" ball player rather than a dog-fighting, dui-obtaining(http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jo-nflduis052009&prov=yhoo&type=lgns) football player. I also completely agree with rick. Play time for football is pathetic compared to that of baseball. Most of the time at football games, all you see is players in a huddle discussing how they will manage to carry a ball a mere 10 yards in front of them. Try hitting a ball smaller than your fist 400 ft.

How about an even playing field? Football and Basketball are more exciting because the teams are better matched, Baseball you have a couple teams that spend the money to buy up the top players the rest of the teams hardly compete. How about a salary cap?

http://www.mouthpiecesports.com/blog/2009/10/01/football-actually-more-sluggish-than-baseball-according-to-math/

This one's simple:

Baseball is daily. Football is weekly.

I might not watch today's baseball game, but there's another one tomorrow. And with about 5 games a week, there's a limit to how much ESPN can hype any individual game. Plus it's summer, there's plenty else to do. And many more people attend MLB games, because it's easy to do.

But ESPN and NBC can hammer relentlessly all week leading up to Sunday or Monday. And they do. You can't go 10 minutes on ESPN without a promo for that week's game. Also, NFL live attendance is declining significantly this year - people are staying home to watch the games.

Football is an event. Baseball is, well, like a comfortable home.

Huge difference...in favor of baseball.

They're both more lucrative than any other sporting league on earth, so no one's exactly crying here.

Oh, and the NFL can only DREAM that the Pro Bowl would generate as much interest as the MLB All-Star Game.

So there.

You haven't watched a football game lately have you? Most of the time nothing is going on. Watch soccer or basketball if you want to see non-stop action. The difference between football and baseball for action is miniscule.

Baseball is meant to be seen in person. Attendance @ baseball games far exceeds attendance for any other sport. The big four sports in America are all doing well and I like them all. I will say ,however, that for all the memories of games gone by I like baseball the most, Pop,Dad and my brothers going to AAA games, priceless.

hopefully the wide receiver is blocking someone....

Hey Trey: I CARE about baseball. OK???

I enjoy watching both sports myself, but I'm really sick & tired of the revolt against baseball. Why has this generation of fans turned their backs on baseball? What, is it because of Bud Selig, is it the steroids, or that most if not all games are played at night? WHO CARES. Maybe it's because today's sports fans are so spoiled by today's fast-paced environment that they expect everything to be done & over with as fast as possible. Baseball shouldn't have to be a fast-paced game. But Naw, all you people out there just hate baseball now because it's too "boring" or not fast-paced enough because you have a short attention span. You don't have time for ANYTHING anymore.

Baseball is still a great game regardless of all the idiots out there who constantly denounce baseball every year like it's some trendy thing to do. Football is a great sport that I've come to enjoy as well. I like BOTH sports, unlike most of today's fans who only care about 1 sport or another & denounce everything else.

No matter how much today's society keeps trying to kill off baseball, the sport will NEVER die. Baseball keeps coming back year after year regardless of how many idiots out there hate the sport. Baseball will NEVER go away. How much more punishment can baseball take anymore?? Enough is enough. STOP the revolt against baseball already people!

OH, & BTW, GO PHILLIES, I still think they can get it done:-D

I think whether you find baseball or football to be more exciting really is just a matter of personal opinion. For me personally I find baseball really boring, in fact if I try to watch it I fall asleep. Whereas when I watch football I find it very exciting. I live in buffalo so I don't know if this has anything to do with the fact that we have no mlb team here, probably not it would still be boring, lol.

But I do love the bills and regardless of how bad they may be I still love to watch it. It is always exciting. And do any of you people actually watch football? They aren't just standing around for 40 seconds after every play, they are trying to decide what they think is the best thing to do on the next play in what is actually a very short period of time to get 11 people into position to execute the play how it's supposed to be. I love how every player on the team has a very important role and if they don't each do their part the team suffers. I think this is protrayed on a regular basis by the Bills who have more miscommunication and mental errors than a team should have. But as bad as they may play sometimes I still love them. It's easy to love a team when they are, but to still love a team when they are bad is more about the excitement of what can happen on every play. In baseball all I ever seem to see is men standing around watching a ball fly over their heads or to a player on the other side of the field catch it while they stand there.

now with that being said, i think the ratings the sports get are irrelevent, even if i loved baseball imagine how hard it would be to watch all 120 games or whatever they play in a season as compared to the 16 regular season football games...much easier...so i really don't think the ratings have anything to with anything other than the length of the seasons and the time in which these sports are televised.

Because the teams are better matched, Hmmmmm... that must explain why this year there are NFL teams like Cleveland, Kansas City, Oakland, Tennessee, St. Louis, Detroit, Tampa Bay and Washington who have a combined record of 9-50 and who have lost games by ridiculous scores of 59-0, 35-7, 42-6, 31-3, 30-6, 31-9, 44-7, 38-0 and 37-7. yes parity is alive and well in the NFL. PHILLIES IN SEVEN!!! MARK MY WORDS!!!

Both baseball and football kick ass, especially if you're in a town with a competitive team, surrounded by people who talk trash.

Unfortunately for basketball, I grew up in NYC and the Knicks stunk, so the NBA sucks in my eyes. That's the true formula.

the team doesn't even need to be competitive the fans just need to be dedicated. :) Which we are even if the Buffalo Bills are terrible, which they are, we're still dedicated.

Baseball is dead because the titles can be bought... (Red Sox, Yankees)

Yes, occassionally there is a surprise team, but I'm sick of the Boston & NY teams dominating the sport because of extra cash. I don't support baseball anymore.

Both the Yankees and Phillies will be playing their 15th post-season game on Wednesday night, almost the equivalent of an NFL season.

Having a short attention span is the new National Pasttime...

Yankees and Red Sox dominance? 2000 - Yankees, 2001 - Diamondbacks, 2002 - Angels, 2003 - Marlins, 2004 - Red Sox, 2005 - White Sox, 2006 - Cardinals, 2007 - Red Sox, 2008 - Phillies, yes it seems that the Yankees and Red Sox have dominated this decade of baseball for sure. But if you choose to turn away from baseball I say "Good riddance!" By the way let me add that I love your frozen pizzas. ;-) PHILLIES IN SEVEN!!! MARK MY WORDS!!!

I'm a Red Sox fan and I hate the disparity between teams. The Yankees are playing for their 26th title in a little over 100 years of play. Unless there are four teams in the league, that's just ridiculous.

Just imagine your about ready to sit down to a game of texas holdem but before you start, you are informed that two of your competitors are able to pick AA or KK preflop every time. Then they tell you that even if you outflop them, they are allowed to pick additional cards for the turn and river. Would you sit down at that game?

That's professional baseball.

All of you are nuts. Baseball, Football, Basketball.....they are all dull and boring. Too much time between action, 1/2 the players are doing 'roids or, in the case of the NBA in particular, fathering multitudes of children by different mothers. And I also hesitate to point out that Football is played with your hands, American-style. Less then 1% of the time during a game do your feet touch the ball. If you want to watch sports where it's all action, almost all the time, try true Football (what we call soccer, btw, who came up with the name Soccer? How in god's name does that represent the game?) or rugby. Every player is a true athlete, unlike an excess of our sports figures. The average Football player runs over 10 miles/match. And Rugby is our Football without the pads, time outs, and 40 second clock for everyone to catch their breath. It's a shame MLS teams are so bad, it just doesn't do justice to the sport. Try watching English Premier League Football, or Spanish La Liga. I can't even watch our major sports except for Ameri-ball (what you all call Football that is played with the hands), they're just too slow.

Here are some suggestions on how to get some life in baseball, and make it far more interesting:
1. Make the batter stay in the batter's box. In today's game, the batter steps out after every pitch, loosens his left hand glove, fastens it, loosens his right hand glove, fastens it, looks at the 3rd base coach, looks at the pitcher, taps his spikes, and 15 seconds later gets back in the box. Fifteen seconds times approximately 300 pitches in a ball game equals 4500 seconds, or 75 minutes of wasted time. Make the batter stay in the box, or call a strike if he steps out. He can always call timeout if he gets something in his eye, but for heaven's sake, speed up the game!
2. Throw out the 100 pitch count currently in vogue. Let the pitchers pitch! Warren Spahn threw 384 complete games, or 20 per year for 19 years, with 4 left over. Juan Marichal threw 244 complete games, Bob Gibson 255, Gaylord Perry 303, Robin Roberts 305, Early Wynn 290. By contrast, in 14 years, Andy Pettite has thrown 25 complete games! He makes heroes out of a string of relievers!
3. A final comment-- spit, spit, SPIT.... spit, followed by more spit, and even more SPIT!

Sometimes batters step out of the batter's box bc the runner at 2nd is tipping pitches to them and they're not getting the pitch they want. This is a fun game to watch when you know what's going on.

Why are you reading a baseball blog if you don't like baseball? I don't get it.

Just as the rightfielder should be backing up a throw.

Football is just the sport that satisfies a fast-food nation full of people who can only commit to 16 games a year and need an excuse to pig out and drink beer all day. Of course it's going to be more popular.

This isn't a question of which sport is better; that's comparing apples to oranges. It is, however, an argument that TV ratings, alone, are the measure of the national value and worth placed on a sport. That's just absolute nonsense.

When a buddy goes on a date, no one asks him/her if he/she got "a first down"; they ask if he/she "got to first base". When stronger penalties are handed down for repeat criminal offenders, no one calls it "3 downs and punt"; it's called "3 strikes, you're out". When something unexpected happens, no one says they got "an interception" thrown at them; they say they got "a curveball thrown" or something "came out of left field". Even today, at the peak of football's popularity, there are no songs on the radio about Peyton Manning. There were, however, songs written and aired about Joe DiMaggio and Jackie Robinson. If you marketed a mint condition Johnny Unitas and Hank Aaron rookie cards, the prices would be about as similar as a Kia next to a Lexus.

My point is, the title of "national pastime" entails far more than just TV ratings; it represents how deeply engrained a sport has become in our national psyche. Baseball is truly the American pastime and always will be. Sorry, baseball haters. Football, however, will likely always be the more popular of the two. After all, the girl that puts out is always more popular than the one who doesn't. Still, I'm pretty sure you know which one you're going to marry.

The argument can't be "which sport is better." (That should be obvious. ;)

The best sport doesn't necessarily win, which is why we haven't embraced soccer, and why the NHL can't get a decent-money TV deal despite drawing more fans than the NBA.

Both are in our consciousness. Baseball has the history factor and ubiquity in our culture. Football has the forced indoctrination at public schools, and gambling.

Let the football people have their fun - it may not last much longer, if the head-injury research is accurate.

Huh? A football game takes 3 hours to play. Out of that time, the clock is running for only 1. And the clock doesn't stop after running plays, which means there's no action for at least half of that hour. So something is happening on the field for at best about half hour out of a 3-hour game.

For those of you pro-salary cap adherents who believe the NFL and its salary cap is the greatest concoction since the invention of the wheel, think again. Of the 43 Super Bowls that have been played, a mere 10 NFL Teams have dominated the Super Bowl Championship winning 77% of the Super Bowls played so far:

1) Steelers- 5 Super Bowl titles
2) Cowboys- 5 Super Bowl titles
3) 49ers- 5 Super Bowl titles
4) Patriots- 3 Super Bowl titles
5) Raiders- 3 Super Bowl titles
6) Giants- 3 Super Bowl titles
7) Packers- 3 Super Bowl titles
8) Redskins- 2 Super Bowl titles
9) Colts- 2 Super Bowl titles
10) Broncos- 2 Super Bowl titles

Meanwhile, despite the NFL's salary cap and supposed "leveling of the playing field," NFL teams such as the Jets, Lions, Browns stink on an annual basis. Conversely, Major League Baseball has had several different MLB teams: White Sox, Marlins, Yankees, Red Sox, Diamondbacks, and Angels win the World Series in recent years. In addition, several "smalll or mid- market teams," such as the Marlins, Rays, Padres, and Diamondbacks have competed in the MLB playoffs in recent years. Furthermore, MLB's World Series provides more excitement, more closely contested games, and better drama than the overrated and overhyped NFL's Super Bowl. Of the 43 Super Bowls that have been played, maybe 6-7 Super Bowls, at the most, have been griping and down to the wire games?In conclusion, Major League Baseball is still the true American Pastime and has more substance compared to the NFL. The NFL is an oversensationalized media driven "style over substance," creation along the same lines as "New Coke" was marketed back in 1985 and the Ford Edsel back in 1955 and Lindsay Lohan of the present time.

Has anyone ever watched The World Cup Qualifiers or The Champions League in Europe? That's more exciting than either baseball of football. And one game is over in less than 2 hours! And the ratings are high worldwide regardless of the time because everyone can schedule the game in knowing when ITS GOING TO END!!!

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