Is Football the National Pastime?

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Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

I compared league revenue, league sponsorship deals, and TV viewership of the World Series and Super Bowl and all indicate that football is the national pastime. In 2006, the NFL generated more than $7B in revenue, compared with $6B for MLB. With regard to sponsorships, it's not even close. In 2006, football drew in more than $700M in sponsorship deals to MLB's $300M. Over the past two years, the nine World Series games have drawn just over 128 million viewers. Meanwhile, the last two Super Bowls drew 184 million viewers.

Well as far as the SB v/s the World Series the SB is one game and people can get together and have a party on that giving night and its over with. This really helps with sponsorship becasue it such a captive audience for that one night. Also baseball is so spread out over the season most fans of a team do not watch everygame they kind of pick and choose which games to watch. Football most fans make it a point to watch their team every Sunday so the market is sixteen games and advertisers knows more of what they are getting. Oh, and baseball is boring.