Baseball vs football as the American sport Stadium lights, tail gates, and the smell of delicious peanuts is sign that you’re at a sports game with ton of roaring fans. Sports has become safe zone for many people where they come to find comfort from dead end jobs or stressful days to find enjoyment. Baseball and football have been the top sports in America and it creates many fantastic moments for fans of the game. While Baseball has been known as the American sport, football has come take over. By comparing and contrasting the fan base, the history of the sport, and the game itself, we can see how football is now the American sport. The fan base is both big in numbers in terms of the TV ratings from MLB and NFL; however, football numbers are greater. In 2015, while baseball got average of 2.2 million viewers on TV, football had an average of 19.1 million viewers which is a big difference. The fans of both sports add excitement to the games. You can see fans painted or dressed in their team’s color and be boisterous during game time. You usually see a wilder factor in football compared to baseball. In football you tend to see fans dressed up in wacky costumes and attire such as Green Bay Packer fans dressed up in all green and yellow with big cheese head. …show more content…
Baseball and football both had a hard time establishing a fan base when they were both first formed. Since baseball was formed earlier than it had more time to grow, but it wasn’t until late 1900’s where football really took over and gathered a bigger fan base. Both sports brought in good athletes that no only became popular in the sport, but in America as a whole. The baseball player Jackie Robinson was one that became famous for being in the sport. The two sports also consist multiple levels its played on such as high school level, college level, and