When Did and How Did the NFL become #1

[PortCityProphet]

i've been wondering this for a minute. when did the NFL overtake baseball as America's game and how did it do it. Some of you old heads enlighten me. And not just NFL football as a whole

 

[JahBuhLun]

Once ESPN bought into the NFL, but I really want to say once Madden started to become popular. People only care about baseball in Oct. Plus football makes it a point to stay relevant year round. Combines, draft, trades, free agency. mini camps, preseason.

Marketable Black stars, following your favorite players from college to the pros.

They stick baseball players in AAA for half of their peak years.

 

[Hammer]

NFL is Boring As fukk

 

[mastermind]

the 1994 baseball strike, imo

 

[MustafaSTL]

When Jordan retired in 1993 and then baseball went on strike in 1994.

 

[Trip]

Joe Montana

but football has always been pretty damn big.

 

[DalMem]

When FOX start showing games in the early 90's is when everything changed. More games was shown every week with FOX, ABC, and CBS

 

[Trip]

When FOX start showing games in the early 90's is when everything changed. More games was shown every week with FOX, ABC, and CBS

the games were on tv before Fox.

CBS had the NFC and NBC had the AFC...MNF was on ABC

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

the 1994 baseball strike, imo

Yup;

It was a combo of:

Baseball strike
Basketball in flux (mj retires, etc)
The biggest fanbases in the nfl (cowboys, skins, nyg, pack, 9ers) all clicking at once
Expansion in smart markets

Hockey actually got a surge here too but they shyt the bed worse than baseball did. Give zero credit to espn, they didn't have their shyt together then, at all.

 

[concise]

When Americans started to go to church less

When NFL Sunday Ticket first arrived

 

[Captain Crunch]

It's amazing, that there was a time in America, where the top 3 sports were baseball; boxing, and horse racing.

 

[mastermind]

When NFL Sunday Ticket first arrived

which was in 1994

 

[the next guy]

Baseball Strike. NFL wasn't even big like that in the 80's. There was a time the Oakland Athletics were the most popular ball team no lie.

Before the mid 1990's NFL was was number 2, maybe 3 in some places.

 

[young3000]

When Americas baseball heroes started juicing

 

[PortCityProphet]

so 94 interesting