Baseball may be our national pastime, I don't know, but football is our national disorder.

for removal of "our" stadium and build another for Malcolm Glazer. CTE is just icing on the cake.

Last season's ratings slipped from over exposure IMO.

And the NBA is becoming more and more popular. Since the Warriors v Cavs rivalry materialized, the hot-stove league, if you will for basketball news has exploded on ESPN.

There are several different daily segments on NBA off-season moves, whereas before, those segments would be devoted more to football.

Baseball of course has continued to dwindle in popularity because, ironically, of what saved it before in the late 1990s and early 2000s — the home run.

And by that I mean the proliferation of home runs and nothing else.

Articles have been written about how nothing happens in baseball now because of the new uppercut swing that is now taught.

It results in either big home runs or strike outs so nothing much happens in between.

Poor baseball. It's prisoner to it's historic numbers and reluctant to change because of them, thus being the most poorly promoted and least well-run of all our major sports.

Which caught teams by surprise in terms of the salary cap.

NFL ratings picked up after the election particularly for Cowboys primetime games which ironically were the games I didn't watch. Sick of seeing the Cowboys on TV all the time.

And felt this way since the 60s when I was a student at a NJ high school in the 60s. I went to two games only. I never been to a professional or college game. Never watch them on TV. Football reminds me of Rome's coliseum history with the gladiators. Hey, Mr Baur, my US History teacher, if you are on DU, you were right in your prediction that Empires implode from corruption at 200 - 250 years. Happy 4th of July everyone.

Like the first three and a half quarters of an NBA game.