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Friday, February 22, 2013

Football is America’s Pastime

?I had always thought it was baseball, like this guy wants to believe.  But I remember back in 1987, the NFL was on strike, while there was a thrilling run for the division title between the Jays and the Tigers.  Without any live football, one of the networks replayed the prior Super Bowl.  Meanwhile, Jays/Tigers was the game of the week on NBC.  The two games came in head to head.  Remember, not only is football a rerun of a game, but the fans must be disenchanted as well because the players were on strike.  And the TV ratings had the rerun of the Super Bowl game beating the end-of-season thriller series between Jays/Tigers.  It was then that I knew that it was football, not baseball, that had already captured America's heart.  

And really, who cares?  As long as they show baseball and hockey somewhere, I don't really care what anyone else thinks.

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