Dumb Poll: Baseball or Football?

I prefer baseball I think because:

(1) I played baseball most of my life. I never played organized football.
(2) Baseball has a very statistical side to it. Football’s stats are silly.
(3) My dad took me to many Royals games when I was a kid. He never took me to Chiefs games because (A) they sucked and (B) when they got good, it was too expensive to get tickets
(4) I was always a smaller kid, so I guess it was easier to imagine myself playing shortstop for the Royals someday than playing QB for the Chiefs.

I like football too though, probably my third favorite sport after college hoops. Big Chiefs fan. I can’t get too into college football though. I even went to a college powerhouse. Gamedays are fun, and the rivalries are neat, but the sports itself is silly with gross disparities in talent, no way of fairly deciding a champion and silly on the field rules.

hard to compare

its a perfect TV sport, and is, in fact, way better on TV than in person unless you have good seats or have a stadium with a great atmosphere

you hear lots of specious arguments all the time about why the NFL is king (parity! salary cap!) but its mostly TV i’d say

why baseball is better.

imagine if the Royals only had 8 home games all year, there might be a few more people show up and have Zack going each game.

For baseball being supposedly the “intelligent”/“thinking man” game and football being stupid and violent, football is full of innovation and baseball is full of not innovation

Baseball and football are a tie for second. I guess I vote football because Mizzou’s been decent for a few years. I’m a homer.

Baseball season and the long, cold, dark time between baseball seasons.

I’ll watch other sports to pass the time, but I don’t get excited or care about who wins or loses.

Bo Jackson was obviously the better football player but his love was with baseball, the same went with me. I rode pine most of my life in baseball, and then was helped out when my dad coached for a while, but as soon as pitchers were allowed to make pitches move my career was OVER! Which really sucks because my high school baseball team won the state title my Sophomore through Senior years

On the other hand I was much MUCH better at Football, so I grew an appreciation for it. I also think that football isn’t given enough credit for the intelligence in the game. I dont think the amount of strategery in baseball even compares to that of football, the complexities of an air and ground attack, man and zone defenses, Blitzing and blocking. Of course anymore I really find my self loving the cerebral types in football, the Mannings, the Belichicks and others.

But when it boils down to it, come April nothing will gets me more excited than Spring Training.

Look, not that I dislike football, but let’s just say that last night, I watched the Melbourne Storm defeat the Manly Sea Gulls. There were no huddles, no pointless stoppages in play, and no players covered in body armor.

Football has even less action. About 120 plays per game that last roughly 6 seconds each on average. That works out to 12 minutes of action over 3 hours of airtime. The games have 60 minutes in them, but it takes 3+ hours to play it? I’ve taken to watching football without commentary by starting the game at halftime and jumping through it with my DVR button. The other 2 hours I could’ve wasted watching commercials is spent somewhere else.

Basketball run neck and neck for me in terms of intensity of fanhood. Football is a very close 3rd place. I was an elite baseball player, quitting at the top of the game, and I probably could have played small college football as a running back, but basketball, which I was merely athletic enough to play, now fascinates me to no end. I’ll always wonder how far I could have gone in both baseball and football.