The New Pastime?

[andrewhoya]

But shouldn't there be the same level of excitement? I thought it should since it came down to a Game 7.

I think another reason why Game 7 wasn't as big at the bar was becuase nobody knew there would be a game 7 until Thursday morning. I'm sure many people were like 'hey, want to head to the bar for the game?' and got responses like 'oh, kinda late notice man, I have plans'

[andrewhoya]

Society has moved away from baseball because of the speed of the game. I would guess most baseball fans tend to be older.

The reason football is so popular to me is the same reason that MMA has become such a huge success. It is intense and fast paced and violent and that is where our society wants to spend their entertainment dollar right now.

I rarely watch a game on TV if it doesn't involve the Mets, while I can watch any football team. Basketball is fine, too.

[nickmyster16]

if you don't get into baseball when your young.... chances are you don't understand the actual difficulty and complexity of the game. Football is more appealing to the eyes, therefore has more fans, which will lead to more card collectors.

[CoolHandLuke]

Some stats from SportsCardForum:

Here, Football is by far the biggest sport on SCF But Hockey used to be fourth and now as move in third place so Hockey his the section that did see a lot of grouth in the past 3 years.

forum /thread / posts
Football Card Forum 364,043 3,730,929
Baseball card forum - 222,230 1,885,562
Hockey card forum - 182,243 1,389,634
Basketball card forum - 143,806 1,317,734
Racing card forum - 14,352 104,223

If I look at the stats in the SCF Inventory

Number of entry per sports
Baseball : 263,744
Hockey : 164,402
Football : 142,327
Basketball : 64,654
Auto Racing : 27,856
Wrestling : 1,621
Soccer : 1,097
Golf : 774
MMA : 572
Tennis : 356
Bench Warmer : 166
Others : 142

Number of entry with image per sports
Football : 61,310
Baseball : 55,380
Hockey : 41,487
Basketball : 31,019
Auto Racing : 20,091
Wrestling : 1,482
Tennis : 260
Golf : 596
MMA : 385
Soccer : 219
Bench Warmer : 166
Others : 67

[souperman79]

This is comparing apples to oranges. Each game has it's technical aspects that separate it's athletes from one another, but to say football players are just playing catch? Come on man!

baseball players are more talented imo,where as football in just playing catch.

[nebboy]

Back to the original observation - There are a lot more basball card web sites than football. So SCF is doing a larger volume in football, and this is a really good Hockey B/S/T place also. To all good collecting to you.

[duwal]

baseball players are more talented imo,where as football in just playing catch.

actually baseball is the one where most of the time the pitcher and catcher are playing catch while everyone else on the filed is standing around waiting for the hitter to do something. In football, every player on the field is in motion for every play. Also there is a lot more schemes and strategies in football over baseball.