How Football dethroned Baseball as the #1 Sport in America
- Thread starter Joe
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Fuck you, Joe! What the hell does a Canadian know about baseball anyway?
Oh yeah: SOX WIN! My WHITE SOX are in first place in the AL Central. Suck it, Canuck!
Oh yeah: SOX WIN! My WHITE SOX are in first place in the AL Central. Suck it, Canuck!
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Im an Expos Fan Reggie.
But theyre kinda dead & long gone.
Baseball aint been the same ever since.
....Oh well Reggie!
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I know you said ya never liked Detroit Reggie but that Denny McLain was da King a da Mound Reggie...
....and they called him 'The Organ'!
Even tho the music is now dated that was a dynamic performance Reggie
The Associate
Be a shame if somethin' was ta... HAPPEN to it...
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Football didn't dethrone baseball. Popular as it is, football has nowhere near the cultural status that baseball once did. That's not because baseball declined -- it's because the American public's relationship to sports did.
Baseball was a cultural institution; football is guys yelling, "WOOOO?!" at their televisions for twelve hours at a go.
There's no film famous for the line, "If you strap on a mattress and bash head-on into a roided-up bovid like you, they will come."
Kids don't collect football cards, if there even is any such thing.
Baseball stopped being the national pastime not because baseball died, but because having a national pastime did.
Baseball was a cultural institution; football is guys yelling, "WOOOO?!" at their televisions for twelve hours at a go.
There's no film famous for the line, "If you strap on a mattress and bash head-on into a roided-up bovid like you, they will come."
Kids don't collect football cards, if there even is any such thing.
Baseball stopped being the national pastime not because baseball died, but because having a national pastime did.
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The Associate
Be a shame if somethin' was ta... HAPPEN to it...
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The media landscape has shifted so significantly over the past century that no one media franchise can achieve the same cultural pervasiveness that baseball enjoyed in the 20th century. Culturally, the U.S. is also nowhere near as high-trust or cohesive as it was then. This culture is suffering the effects of late-stage Balkanization. Not to get too much into political dynamics outside the appropriate subforum, but the America that *had* a national pastime no longer exists, because this America no longer has a national anything.
