Baseball vs. football. Which sport is better?

[Paladin Cecil]

Between baseball and American football, which would you consider the better sport after reading this article?

 

http://baseball-almanac.com/legendary/libvf100.shtml

[UK1679666180]

I didn't read the article but Baseball is my fav. sport, despite hearing you re-enact the Gibson HR. :wink:

[CubbieBum]

Any article written by baseball alamac isn't worth anything on this topic. They would obviously have a bias.

[UMFan83]

I don't need to read an article to decide which sport is better to me. Baseball by a longshot.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Baseball is better as a season, football is better as a game.

[JimSorgi]

They're both awesome, so I'm glad I don't have to choose.

[illiniguy]

ESPN ruins them both. Football would be so much better if it had an offseason.

[CubbieBum]

ESPN ruins them both. Football would be so much better if it had an offseason.

 

What do you think May, June and July are?

[Guest]

ESPN ruins them both. Football would be so much better if it had an offseason.

 

What do you think May, June and July are?

Extra time to talk about Favre.

[illiniguy]

ESPN ruins them both. Football would be so much better if it had an offseason.

 

What do you think May, June and July are?

Extra time to talk about Favre.

OMG is Tom Brady married? He could be married. Did you see TO doing situps the other day?

[CubbieBum]

ESPN ruins them both. Football would be so much better if it had an offseason.

 

What do you think May, June and July are?

Extra time to talk about Favre.

OMG is Tom Brady married? He could be married. Did you see TO doing situps the other day?

 

That's still the offseason. Its the media having to fill the void but from May-July football fans like myself are antsy and counting the days until training camp. Oh and the TO situps clip happened during the NFL season.

[XZero771679666304]

Football is a fine way to pass the offseason, I guess.

 

I really enjoy watching football, but I wouldn't miss it a whole lot if it were gone.

[illiniguy]

ESPN ruins them both. Football would be so much better if it had an offseason.

 

What do you think May, June and July are?

Extra time to talk about Favre.

OMG is Tom Brady married? He could be married. Did you see TO doing situps the other day?

 

That's still the offseason. Its the media having to fill the void but from May-July football fans like myself are antsy and counting the days until training camp. Oh and the TO situps clip happened during the NFL season.

I thought he did that crap during the pretraining crap? Here is an idea give it a couple months off and it will still be very good.

[Guest]

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to infer which sport I like better.

[SouthSideRyan]

Football is a distant 3rd.

[NewUserName]

NFL is not even in my top 5

[XZero771679666304]

Football is a distant 3rd.

 

Baseball>>College Hoops>>>>NFL>College Football>NBA>NHL

[Andy]

College football

Baseball

 

 

College hoops

 

 

NFL

 

 

 

 

NBA

[NCCubFan]

This topic just screams poll, so I converted it to a poll and moved it.

[NCCubFan]

BTW, the correct answer is baseball. Football is an enjoyable way to pass the time between baseball seasons.

[Andy]

BTW, the correct answer is baseball. Football is an enjoyable way to pass the time between baseball seasons.

Yeah, I enjoy the actual sport of baseball more than football. Everything surrounding college football weekends is what puts it over the top for me.

[Marco4]

Cricket > Association Football > Baseball > Really, anything beyond that could be anything.

[biittner77]

Hockey

[laurens]

Baseball>football,hockey&cricket>soccer>basketball

[jersey cubs fan]

ESPN ruins them both. Football would be so much better if it had an offseason.

 

Football has a much longer offseason than any of the four major sports, too long actually. It's a shame. It's completely disingenuous to whine about this when hockey and basketball go from October-June, baseball has a much more prominent "training season", everybody plays 6 months and the playoffs last into the beginning of November. You can pretend the media over emphasizes the NFL offseason, but baseball has its hot stove league, daily releases of multiple award winners, winter meetings, GM meetings, owners meetings, arbitration deadlines, first day of free agency, pitchers and catchers report, position players report and spring training. Baseball is discussed February-December every year. January is the only month without much discussion. Football is played September-December, with one month of playoffs and one week into February. The football hot stove league is much less a media infatuation. Most of February and March football is on the backburner. It heats up in April for the draft, but then goes away with only marginal local coverage on things like minicamps. It does not kick back up until July training camp.

 

As a big Bears and Cubs fan, it's pretty clear to me that anybody who complains about an overemphasis on one sport or the other just has a biased dislike of that sport. They all get hyped and try and get as much media attention as possible.