Posted on 07/29/2015 12:11:04 PM PDT by Kaslin
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Now Baseball and Football are different from one another in other kind of interesting ways I think. First of all, Baseball is a 19th century pastoral game. Football is a 20th century technological struggle. Baseball is played on a diamond in the park, the Baseball Park. Football is played on a grid iron in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying. In Football, you wear a helmet. In Baseball, you wear a cap. Football is concerned with downs. What down is it? Baseball is concerned with ups. Who’s up? Are you up? I’m not up. He is up. In Football, the specialist comes in to kick. In Baseball, the specialist comes in to relieve someone. In Football, you receive a penalty. In Baseball, you make an error. Whoops!
Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, blocking, piling on, late hitting, unnecessary roughness and personal fouls. Baseball has the sacrifice. Football is played in any kind of weather, rain, sleet, snow, hail, mud, can’t read the numbers on the field, can’t read the yard markers, can’t read the players numbers, the struggle will continue.
In Baseball, if it rains, we don’t come out to play. “I can’t come out to play. It’s raining out.” Baseball has a 7th inning stretch. Football has the two minute warning. Baseball has no time limit. We don’t know when it’s gonna end. We might have extra innings.
Football is rigidly timed and it will end even if we have to go to sudden death. In Baseball, during the game in the stands, there is kind of a picnic feeling. Emotions may run high or low, but there’s not that much unpleasantness. In Football, in the stands, during the game you can be sure that at least 27 times you are perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being, preferably a stranger.
And finally the objectives of the two games are totally different. In Football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general. To be on target with his aerial assault riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing his aerial assault with a sustained ground attack, which punches holes in the forward wall of the enemies’ defensive line.
In Baseball, the object is to go home, and to be safe. I hope I’ll be safe at home, safe at home.
-George Carlin
OH MAN that George Carlin skit doesn’t get old LOL!
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I was a football player, and now I have a 13 year old boy. He’s played some soccer, but mostly Little League, and Pee-Wee football. I now know why I became a football player.
Football is relatively FREE compared to any other sport.
You don’t have to play on Select Travel teams to be good in Football. It’s mostly all still done through the schools.
Other sports are not like that.
By the time 7th grade comes around, or 9th grade for baseball if your just playing rec league you will be behind.
we learn it’s ok to beat your wife..it’s ok to raise dogs for fighting, it’s ok to cheat...We’ve learned its ok to play with conscussions, ..we’ve learned its ok to be a thuckin fug and get paid for it..
I didn’t know so many more boys still played football compared to other sports.
Many young men who play football come from families where multi generations of family members have played. In my family, my dad and his brothers played football, my brother and I played, my nephew played and both of my sons played, my youngest being the first in the family to play college football and he was team captain for his final season. My older son was the first to score a touchdown as we’ve all been linemen, battling it out in the trenches, blocking to give team mates the chance to score for our team and tackling to stop the other team from scoring. My sons and daughter haven’t had children yet, but I’m hoping when they do, they encourage their kids to play football! I’ll be in the stands for every game, just as my dad was for my nephew and my sons games, rooting them on and enjoying the greatest of sports, football!
As someone who played baseball, I grudgingly concede that you are right. Today’s baseball is dominated by rich kids, not something that attracts the best athletes to the sport. It is why you have seen Vanderbilt v Virginia in the last two College WS finals. Football’s less money driven system on the youth level has allowed the less moneyed kids a chance to stay competitive in the sport. Let’s be honest, the better athletes have always come from the poorer classes, thus football and basketball for that matter have attracted the better athletes over the other three sports that have surrendered to money at the youth level, baseball, hockey, and soccer.
Your situation seems to be driven more by genetics than anything else. Of course a family of big burly guys is going to gravitate to football.
True, we’re all big guys, but there’s also the “inner warrior” aspect and that plays into it as well. Lot’s of guys who played football end up joining the service, as I did right after I graduated from HS.
Surprising to me, as well, considering the war on boys and the agenda to stop them from doing anything so physical.
On a sad note, I recall being told about a news item by one of my sisters who lives near a small town in Pennsylvania. Seems the local rec council was not able to field a team last season because not enough boys came out for it.
The article she read quoted someone as saying that the main reason was that many boys would rather play video games.
Don’t know about anyone else, but what I learned is don’t play football if you’re short high school freshman who weighs 115 pounds.
Baseball is the only sport where the defense has the ball.
I love it as well!!!!
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