Baseball or Football

**jbhtexas** · 04-22-2009, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by ISUAlum2002

Hmm.....81 home games per team vs. 8 home games per team.

So what?

**cyclonepower** · 04-22-2009, 10:46 PM

I love baseball, but love football more

**chuckd4735** · 04-22-2009, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by jbhtexas

Not so much...

2007 NFL attendance: 17,341,012
2007 MLB attendance: 79,502,524

Some people should not be allowed to post...

**Bobber** · 04-22-2009, 10:49 PM

I love both sports, but the older I get the more I like baseball.

These are the reasons why.

The weather is great most of the season.

It's such a great social event to attend. You can kick back, talk business or life, have a few beer and do it in normal tone of voice. You can do all that and still take in the game at your leisure.

You can tickets most anytime and also go during the work week to games.

**jbhtexas** · 04-22-2009, 10:51 PM

Originally Posted by chuckd4735

Some people should not be allowed to post...

I'm sure the CF mods will be happy to lockout your posting capability if you ask them to...

**Wesley** · 04-22-2009, 10:51 PM

Fantasy baseball is better than fantasy football.

**jumbopackage** · 04-22-2009, 10:53 PM

Football is clearly more popular today. Historically, I think baseball is probably much more popular.

Football is MADE for TV, and that's a large part of it's appeal to modern society. Baseball is a sport that was really made to attend and doesn't translate as well to TV, IMO.

I love going to baseball games. (I also love football games...), but I'd much rather watch football on TV vs. Baseball.

**Clones85'** · 04-22-2009, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by jbhtexas

So what?

What do you mean so what? Do the math. What do you think attendance for the NFL would be if they played that many games?

I am a huge baseball fan but I think football has taken over

**chuckd4735** · 04-22-2009, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by jbhtexas

So what?

EDIT...There are 256 regular season NFL games per year and 2,430 MLB games per year. If you do the math, that is an average of 67,738 for NFL and 32,717 per game for the MLB.

**GracefulCyclone** · 04-22-2009, 11:03 PM

Football is easily more popular. Just watch ESPN, Football gets the most coverage of any sport easily. Even during the off season, they talk about the NFL Draft more than baseball.

Unless you live in St. Louis or maybe New York, Football dominates every major City.

**jbhtexas** · 04-22-2009, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by Clones85'

What do you mean so what? Do the math. What do you think attendance for the NFL would be if they played that many games?

I don't think it would be nearly as high as you think it would be.

Professional baseball plays an 81-home game season because they can draw enough fans for reasonable attendance throughout a season of that many games to make money. Beyond MLB, there is also minor league pro baseball that draws significant fans as well.

There is nothing stopping the NFL from playing multiple games a week. They could increase their roster sizes to accommodate multiple games per week. Why don't they do it? Because they can't make money doing it. Why can't they make money doing it? Because fans won't come to watch the games.

Even for the existing 8-home games per year, why aren't NFL football stadiums the gargantuan 160,000+ seat stadiums that you see in NASCAR? Because fan attendance won't support such stadiums.

**jbhtexas** · 04-22-2009, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by chuckd4735

EDIT...There are 256 regular season NFL games per year and 2,320 MLB games per year. If you do the math, that is an average of 67,738 for NFL and 32,717 per game for the MLB.

Do you think that if the NFL played 81 home games per year, that they would average 67,738 per game?

**chuckd4735** · 04-22-2009, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by jbhtexas

Do you think that if the NFL played 81 home games per year, that they would average 67,738 per game?

No, but that is one reason the NFL is more popular, because there are less games, and each game carries more hype.

**jbhtexas** · 04-22-2009, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by chuckd4735

No, but that is one reason the NFL is more popular, because there are less games, and each game carries more hype.

So what metric are you using to declare that the NFL is more popular than MLB? MLB trounces the NFL in overall attendance. Revenue wise, the last numbers I found showed the NFL with $6.5 billion in revenue, while MLB had $6.1 billion, so they are pretty close there. The NFL has two more teams, so they are again pretty close. Just curious...

**chuckd4735** · 04-22-2009, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by jbhtexas

So what metric are you using to declare that the NFL is more popular than MLB? MLB trounces the NFL in overall attendance. Revenue wise, the last numbers I found showed the NFL with $6.5 billion in revenue, while MLB had $6.1 billion, so they are pretty close there. The NFL has two more teams, so they are again pretty close.

More people play fantasy football than fantasy baseball.
The Super Bowl is far superior to the World Series.
Football is more popular in high school and college.
The NFL draft is followed, no one even knows when the MLB draft is taking place.