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Still Breathing

 

            
            
             football: which is the true American pastime? In today's world of big time professional sports there are the two major sports and they are football represented by the National Football League (NFL) and baseball represented by Major League Baseball (MLB). Of course there are many other sports that the American public enjoys watching, however the argument always boils down to which sport is the true favorite of the American people: baseball or football. The goal of this paper will be to show once and for all, which sport is the true American favorite and can be called the "American Pastime".
             Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park. The baseball park! Football is played on a GRIDIRON, in a STADIUM, sometimes called SOLDIER FIELD or WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM. Baseball begins in the spring, the season of love and new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying. In football you wear a helmet. In baseball you wear a cute little 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's up!" Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting, and unnecessary roughness. Baseball has the sacrifice. Football is played on any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog, no matter what the field conditions are, the struggle will continue! In baseball if it rains, we don't go out to play. "I can't go out! It's raining out!" Baseball has no time limit: "We don't know when it's going to end!" 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's kind of a picnic feeling. Emotions may run high or low, but there's not much unpleasantness. But in football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least 25 times you were perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.


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