Is Football the National Pastime?

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Originally Posted by mredskins

To me if picking your nose is your favorite pastime so be it. Why argue something that has no measurable answer.

Because it's our offseason.

Baseball shot itself in the foot by not instituting a salary cap and by striking in 1994. Everyone saw the players as greedy bastidges who care more about a buck than about playing the game.

The nature of football (physically demanding and grueling) weeds those types of people out, I think. Obviously people want to get paid. In football, though, your heart really has to be in it to be good. You look on Sunday, and you see people on the sidelines who obviously love the game.