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T206Collector...but no one really cares about it. It is not as emotionally ingrained in our collective psyches and that is because...
...they play 16 games, 8 home games.
The New York Yankees sell 50,000 tickets to 81 home games. Could you imagine how hard it would be to get a Yankee ticket if they only had 8 home games?
You live and breath baseball from February through October. Every single day.
Football is a weekly ritual for a few cold months. It provides a spring board for gamblers.
The two so-called "New York" teams play in Jersey, with the friggin New Jersey Devils and Nets. They play in the same charmless stadium named after one of them. What a totally charmless, uninteresting situation.
Football is monopolized by a few seconds of action followed by a timeout, or a commercial or a commercial timeout.
Football is violent. It is based on brute force. It is angry. It is war.
Football is dominated in high school by the big and dumb. If you were one of these guys in high school, maybe you still like football. But if you weren't, how could you cheer for that? What were you getting behind?
But the reason that the cards don't work for football is because you can't follow a single player every day for 20 years. Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth ... these guys could be seen almost every day for a generation. Even your longest standing football players only showed up once a week for a few months over the course of a few years. Sure there are the Jerry Rice's of the world, but again, Jerry Rice played as many football games in his entire career as Derek Jeter did THIS YEAR alone.
Baseball is much more interesting. And it's harder to do.
Football is stupid and meaningless. Take out the alcohol, the gambling and the commercials, and you have a meaningless, boring sport for the uncomfortably big, unhealthy unwashed.
I hate football.