Old White People Still Love Baseball

I don't know. I know the Brady Rules and what not have really made the game so different than what I am used to calling football that it looks more like Madden NFL than real football. But that might just be me, of course. 15 years ago I would watch football from Saturday 11am to Monday 11pm. Now, I watch some on saturdays if UT is on, some on Sundays and don't watch either night game unless I have a rooting interest.

But again, that is just me.

 

Does the female form make you uncomfortable?

 

doesn't exactly look like a sport with an intellectual fanbase:

 

I also disagree with this. Maybe it doesn't reveal character or teach life lessons on the professional level, but I think it definitely does that sort of thing on the younger level.

 

Is that what this is a picture of?

 

basically the only sport I watch these days is football. It's the only sport that I find time to watch. all signs show it's as popular as ever too.

 

The same can be argued for any sport on the youth level.

 

Certainly. And each one has different lessons it can teach.

 

I'm not even sure this is true. If it is, it's only because the NHL is more popular than the MLS.

 

but it's more popular than euro soccer here too, and the euro stuff is available everywhere now.

Hockey being more entertaining is what it's about.

 

It's only more popular than European soccer because most fans have no connection to it whatsoever. Plus it goes on at extremely inconvenient times for US fans.

I don't think hockey is very popular among the younger generation at all.

 

Not sure that's true. Every time a meaningful European club tours America, they sell out stadium after stadium. Nobody outside a few niche cities realizes the NHL exists til the playoffs.

 

they sell out big city stadiums as a novelty. I don't think they'd have any prayer of making seasonal financials work here.

All big game season sports struggle until the playoffs.

 

exactly. nfl games in London average 83K a game. doubt they do that with a full time team.

 

In the US, yes. In Canada, the NHL is huge. 7/30 teams are there.

 

You give the MLS the star power that EPL or La Liga has, they bury the NHL so deep they'd never be found.

 

It's still real to me, dammit

 

One of the better YouTube moments ever. The look on Terry Funk's face is priceless.

 

Was talking about America. Also, there are some really small markets with nothing else going on in that Canadian group.

 

Well crap.