Friday, September 9, 2011
NFL Should Once Again Take Over Sports World
While MLB baseball has been the talk of the sports world most of the summer, it should take a back seat to the NFL once again. According to a USA Today article by Michael Hiestand, a regular season football game between two 1-3 teams last year (Dallas & Minnesota) nearly tripled the ratings the NLCS playoff game between the Phillies and eventual MLB champion San Francisco Giants. This shouldn't come as a surprise as the NFL is by far the most popular sport in the US. And nobody should expect this to change this year either, especially after that thrillng NFL opener thursday night between the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints. Another factor that will almost certainly sink any chance the MLB had to stay even with the NFL at this point in the year is the lack of close pennant races this year. The Yankees/Redsox battle and the race between the Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are the closest thing to an interesting pennant race and thats a 2.5 game difference. All the other division leading teams are at least 7.5 games ahead of the second place team. The combination of the two (NFL being traditionaly overpowering and lack of MLB pennant races) could doom the MLB. Ratings could fall to an all-time low this year and who knows what might happen with the current Collecctive Bargaining Agreement expiring after this season; but only time will tell. We all know what happened with the NFL and their lockout situation, but in the meantime, the NFL appears to be ruling supreme once again.
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I am a huge football fan and personally do not find baseball very interesting and it is just to slow of a pace for me. In American 21st Century Sport Dr. Higgs mentioned one of the main reasons the NFL draws so much attention compared to other sports is violence, America is a violent country that enjoys entertainment with action. I am so excited for this Sunday to just relax and watch some football, it has been to long and it's back!
ReplyDeleteThe National Football League is the largest league and is able to generate the most revenue of all professional sports leagues. I feel if they turned to a lockout this entire season, they would have lost lots of potential revenue and would have lost a stream of fans. The NFL needs to continue it's success and keep working their way towards a successful year.
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