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04-28-2024, 01:48 AM | Topic Starter |
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What year did football become bigger than Baseball
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When the Steelers started their run.
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I think that’s about right. There’s a line in the 1973 movie “Bang the Drum Slowly” where a doctor tells a baseball player he’s treating, “I hear it’s a dying sport.”
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04-28-2024, 03:48 AM | #9 |
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After the MLB strike in 1994. That pissed a lot of people off that never came back.
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I feel like this is when it really shifted. The strike coupled with Dallas becoming a team that everyone either jumped on the bandwagon or absolutely hated. This created a bunch of rivalries and banter between fans. I feel like it really took off from there. That’s just my experience, anyway.
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Then the steroids scandals hit and football went to another level and "America's Game" was now football.
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04-28-2024, 07:39 AM | #13 |
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You guys are way off. Football in national surveys passed baseball in the 60s. I am inmy mid 50s and football has always been more popular. The only thing that has changed is the gap.
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04-28-2024, 08:57 AM | #14 |
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Agreed. I'm not checking the numbers, so I don't know when viewership for football passed baseball, but I think the writing was on the wall for baseball as soon as sports became televised. Baseball is a really good sport for radio, and football isn't. Football is a really good sport for tv and baseball isn't. How many people listen to radio anymore?
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