Re: Is Football the National Pastime?
 

football for sure. plus college football is much bigger than college baseball...hands down

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[QUOTE=SmootSmack;418258][url=http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=75889]MediaPost Publications - Pro Football Remains America's Favorite Sport - 02/06/2008[/url]

Just thought I'd update this thread with the link above[/QUOTE]

I would agree with the link, I would say football is America's past time and I would think that basketball is pretty high also. For both football and basketball it is a lot easier to get pickup games going than base ball.

Re: Is Football the National Pastime?
 

The National Pastime is now officially Internet Porn.

Re: Is Football the National Pastime?
 

If the suggested answer is limited to sports, I would say it's a toss-up between Baseball & Football. However, in actuality the national pastime is having sex, eating, and watching TV. Oh!! don't forget Ballet.

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[QUOTE=70Chip;418261]The National Pastime is now officially Internet Porn.[/QUOTE]


You have a point, even in the workplace supervisors are facing the challenge of redirecting employees attention back to work assignments.

Re: Is Football the National Pastime?
 

[QUOTE=TheMalcolmConnection;408248]I don't have any lengthy explanation, but I'll tell you this: NO WAY IN HELL is baseball our national past-time. You could ask almost anyone and the majority of the population at least somewhat enjoys football. It seems like MAYBE half of people care about baseball during the regular season.[/QUOTE]


I disagree, baseball IS our national past time...with the operative word being [B]PAST.[/B]. It's all football baby!

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Baseball is such a second tier sport, yet sports media treat it like it is the no. 1 sport...but it is not. The whole steroids issue alone has made baseball a joke. They have a ridiculous long season, their games are too long, and no one ever pays attention to the sport unless it's the Sox and Yankees. Baseball has been fortunate to depend on old timers and tradition to keep their sport alive, but honestly if the sport doesn't make any changes (shorter season, salary cap, shorter games) it will go the way of the NHL.

Football is undoubtly the number 1 sport in the country, and as someone mentioned before, it's a national obsession.