My view on professional sport in the United States....

**7teen** · March 24th, 2009, 09:11 PM

Football teams play 8 home games.
Basketball teams play 41 home games
Baseball teams play 81 home games.

Fans don't dress up in wigs and go insane for 81 home games. I have been to plenty of baseball games over the years and at nearly every game, there is a pocket of young fans with their shirts off, letters painted on their chest, doing what they can to be insane.

I also went to Yankee stadium 2 years back and those fans were definitely passionate. I went to a mid summers game, on a Wednesday, at 12:30. The place was packed. I despise the Yankees, but it was the best atmosphere for a baseball game I have ever attended. Did they have drums and thunder sticks? No, but they were definitely passionate.

Football definitely rules the American passion it seems, but I wouldn't just discount the other sports as fading out.

**R13** · March 24th, 2009, 09:25 PM

The other sports are more exciting and that's just a fact. Baseball is a slow game and not really too exciting IMO. A game like basketball is fast pace and more thrilling. More scoring = chance for more spectacular plays = more reason to stand up and cheer or yell at the TV.

**steer** · March 24th, 2009, 11:08 PM

Baseball is a great way to spend some summer days. Nothing beats going to Oriole Park at Camden Yards, for an all day game.

But football is the true American game... Why? because no other country in the world really has football. There is that NFL Europe (or did they end that?), then the Canadian football league..
so yeah, football is the true american sport... because, no other country really has it...

**7teen** · March 25th, 2009, 08:17 AM

Originally Posted by steer

Baseball is a great way to spend some summer days. Nothing beats going to Oriole Park at Camden Yards, for an all day game.

But football is the true American game... Why? because no other country in the world really has football. There is that NFL Europe (or did they end that?), then the Canadian football league..
so yeah, football is the true american sport... because, no other country really has it...

But with the NFL playing games in London, Mexico, and Canada every year, how much longer can you say that?