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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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04-28-2024, 02:04 AM | #2 |
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When the Steelers started their run.
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04-28-2024, 06:11 AM | #6 | |
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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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04-28-2024, 06:29 AM | #11 |
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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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04-28-2024, 07:33 AM | #12 | |
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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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04-28-2024, 01:09 PM | #15 | |
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MLB “felt” very important in the late 90’s. Those Yankees teams were a big ****ing deal. But the Steroid Era and everything that followed really took the shine off the league. It was sorta the equivalent of the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong. Normal people actually watched cycling back then. Then the scandal hit, and it never “felt” the same. |
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