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mcarey032 · 01-15-2008, 08:24 PM

Baseball totally gave away its following. Look at the World Series. The world series is played generally on weeknights and is also played at 9 o'clock at night. They have basically alienated a generation by doing so many weeknight games and the sheer volume of games and teams have diluted the sport. Football on the other hand has it down correctly. There are 16 games and everyone matters. The playoffs are expanded to include and reward teams for a good season, unlike in baseball, where for years it was the top two teams played for that teams pennant and then went to the world series.
My guess is that your co-worker supports the bowl system in football. A totally unbalanced and stupid way to determine a champion. Rating wins and losses and arguing who had the better regular season when clearly in pro football or football as it is played in the rest of America, on the field, not by writers, coaches and computers. Baseball is good and so is college football is good too, but they are severely flawed.

01-15-2008, 08:24 PM	#19
mcarey032 Special Teams Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Arlington, VA. Posts: 215	Re: Is Football the National Pastime? Baseball totally gave away its following. Look at the World Series. The world series is played generally on weeknights and is also played at 9 o'clock at night. They have basically alienated a generation by doing so many weeknight games and the sheer volume of games and teams have diluted the sport. Football on the other hand has it down correctly. There are 16 games and everyone matters. The playoffs are expanded to include and reward teams for a good season, unlike in baseball, where for years it was the top two teams played for that teams pennant and then went to the world series. My guess is that your co-worker supports the bowl system in football. A totally unbalanced and stupid way to determine a champion. Rating wins and losses and arguing who had the better regular season when clearly in pro football or football as it is played in the rest of America, on the field, not by writers, coaches and computers. Baseball is good and so is college football is good too, but they are severely flawed.