The Big Finals
The Super Bowl and World Series have feuding for a hundred, some odd years now. But really, the Super Bowl is exponentially more popular than the World Series. The first World Series in 1903, approximately 100,000 people attended the game in total. The First Super Bowl, or Super Bowl l in 1967, approximately 60,000 people attended. If the statistic had to be fair, in 1967, approximately 300,000 people attended. However, there are some discrepancies. In the World Series, one team has to win 4 of 7 games in order to clinch the title of best team. So, approximately 300,000 people attended after the seven games. On average, approximately 40,000 people attended on average. So technically, for one game, the Super Bowl was more popular than World Series as the Super Bowl only had one day to gather people all over the world in one stadium.
Technology Takes Over
Super Bowl l was not only popular by attendance, but also popular through technology. Since the first Super Bowl was in 1967, televisions had already been influencing the lives of many Americans. People who couldn't go to the Super Bowl still felt a part of the action. Either with your friends or checking on the internet, technology made both sports more popular.
Many stadiums now have electronic advertisement billboards. These are the billboards that are on a cycle, showing people the same old, buy Coke, advertisement. But, let's say that you are viewing from your home. Many Super Bowls make viewers anxious because some Super Bowls are the only place to see a first glimpse at a new movie trailer. Many people who aren't die-hard fans tune in to see the anticipated, notorious commercials. Many advertisers are acknowledged for having the best commercial. So, without technology, sports would never be where it is today.
Baseball, even though it was on television, its average viewing is still less than football's viewers. When teams leave their town and head on the road to an opponents stadium, technology still keeps viewers a part of the whole.
Many stadiums now have electronic advertisement billboards. These are the billboards that are on a cycle, showing people the same old, buy Coke, advertisement. But, let's say that you are viewing from your home. Many Super Bowls make viewers anxious because some Super Bowls are the only place to see a first glimpse at a new movie trailer. Many people who aren't die-hard fans tune in to see the anticipated, notorious commercials. Many advertisers are acknowledged for having the best commercial. So, without technology, sports would never be where it is today.
Baseball, even though it was on television, its average viewing is still less than football's viewers. When teams leave their town and head on the road to an opponents stadium, technology still keeps viewers a part of the whole.
Football in a Nutshell
Football gained popularity since day one. Many football players are seen as either in the best shape possible, or not. Football would take almost anyone as a player, since everybody could be used in a certain position. Baseball needs players who all need to know how to do almost the same thing (with an exception of pitching). Baseball is a very specific sport while football will take heavy, light, strong, and fast players. Football has a defensive and offensive wave (doesn't need everyone to play the same position). Naturally, the coaches will put the heavy players as guards or on tackle, the fast players as receivers or cornerbacks, and the strong players as safety or linebackers. As I said earlier, everyone on baseball needs to know the same thing, much unlike football. Football was first played, majorly, just after televisions came out. So, the average American had a television to watch the typical American Past Time, baseball. However, when this high contact, physical, fast paced, gripping sport of football was first aired, millions of Americans turned their heads towards this new, uprising sport of football. This "football" was the new most popularly viewed sport of America.
Baseball in a Peanut-Shell
Baseball has been America's Pastime, it was the sport fathers took their son too. Going to watch the game and sitting in the wooden seats and ordering hotdogs was a great experience. But now baseball lost its popularity for many reasons. One was just that people have transitioned to a more fast-paced lifestyles and they want a more fast-paced game to watch to go along with that. People find baseball repetitive and boring, whereas they find football more interesting due to the variety of the outcome of each play. Another key factor in the loss of baseball's popularity is the whole scandal involving steriods. People have lost trust in the players and feel betrayed because they are finding out that the game that they used to love was actually fake and in many cases, a product of performance enhancing drugs. Another huge factor in the decline in baseball's popularity is the implication of the ubsurd salaries that the players make. For example Alex Rodriguez makes over 20 million dollars a year, if it werent for this kind of money being spent on him people would be able to enjoy a game and not have to pay riducolous prices for their food and souvineers at the ballpark. This makes people less inclined to go to games because it just becomes an extremely expensive endevour. With less people wanting to go see the games, this makes the games not be played as much on the tv. With less games on tv, people resort to other sports and shows to watch. With less people watching baseball, its obviously less popular.