Today, football is the most watched sport in America
If baseball players strike again, I’ll never watch or go to another game.
DEREK KETNER

In the old days, baseball was regarded as America’s pastime and some people still think so today. Football, on the other hand, was a sport that was just starting to develop. You would have tens of thousands of people arrive at baseball games and only a few thousand for football. But in the late 60’s that all started to change.

Football had started catching the eyes of the public with its hard-hitting fast paced game that took as long as baseball but doesn’t have as much waiting for a big play to develop. There could be big play after big play and with baseball it could take about an hour just to see the first run of the game. Scores weren’t 3-2 or 4-1, they were very high-scoring games. Teams would score in the 30’s and still lose. The same still happens today.

The only problem with football is that there was no real catchy name for the championship game. But in 1972 the new name for the championship game was called the Super Bowl. That’s a better name than the World Series.
Today, football is the most watched sport in America. More people attend the games than baseball and more players play for the game and not the money like baseball players do. They get paid $50-75 million dollars just to hit a ball and football players are lucky to get $30-40 million, which still is a lot.

Football players have to have drug test and steroid test every week and if baseball players have to they go on strike and won’t play. They only have to do it once or twice during the season and they still complain about that. If they strike again, I will never watch a baseball game or go to a baseball game.