When Did and How Did the NFL become #1

[the next guy]

1994 was awful and you can argue baseball has never really recovered from that. Sure they make money now but not NFL level.

 

[the next guy]

When Americas baseball heroes started juicing

If they didn't I bet you could argue baseball would have even less stature then right now. McGuire-Sosa brought America back

so 94 interesting

http://www.amazon.com/Strike-Three-...43329379&sr=8-5&keywords=1994+baseball+strike

Buy this breh, if you get the chance.

 

[Captain Crunch]

NFL is Boring As fukk

I'mma agree w/ you.
Last year, I'll was damn near falling asleep watching the Giants. NFL has it's moments though College Football though

 

[chuckifubuck]

so was baseball top dog in 80's?

from a 90's baby perspective, the perception I always get is that the NFL was more popular (though I guess that might be espn's football bias even for old school shyt). I think it might be the decade where the 3 major sports were the closest in popularity. But was baseball really still the most popular sport in the 80's?

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

The Super Bowl.

Nuff said.

 

[RaidenS]

NFL is Boring As fukk

What???

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Baseball was more popular until mid 90s yes.

 

[Dat Migo]

Was Always under the impression that 1958 nfl championship game was what pushed it over baseball...

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Was Always under the impression that 1958 nfl championship game was what pushed it over baseball...

Who told you that, steve sabol?

 

[holidayinn21]

baseball made a comeback post-strike with the mcgwire/sosa race.

madden and gambling blowing up at the same.

 

[Trip]

I mean football has always done better nationally than baseball.....football has been the most popular sport for damn near 40 years at every level


but in terms of all out dominance the internet and fantasy is what really did it.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I mean football has always done better nationally than baseball.....football has been the most popular sport for damn near 40 years at every level

...yeah that is just not true

 

[lochead]

The year was 1987 when it all changed. That was the second strike within 5 years, the players thought that the owners needed them, the owners thought otherwise. They put out replacement players (scabs) to fill TV time and the American public ate it up like flies to shyt to the point that the players (Dallas Cowboys and others) crossed the picket line to play and gave up a lot of their rights. Both the players and owners knew right then and there that FOOTBALL was the KING KONG MUTHAfukkA in America.

 

[Schmoove]

Growing up in the late 80s/early 90s, most sports talk radio and stuff on ESPN and CNN-SI was about baseball.

The MLB strike and mid-90s NBA () is what put the NFL over the top.

 

[mastermind]

so was baseball top dog in 80's?

from a 90's baby perspective, the perception I always get is that the NFL was more popular (though I guess that might be espn's football bias even for old school shyt). I think it might be the decade where the 3 major sports were the closest in popularity. But was baseball really still the most popular sport in the 80's?

baseball was the #1 sport for like 100 years in America

its only the 1990s that it all changed, a lot of that was down to the 1994 strike, and the NFL doing many innovative things.

The year was 1987 when it all changed. That was the second strike within 5 years, the players thought that the owners needed them, the owners thought otherwise. They put out replacement players (scabs) to fill TV time and the American public ate it up like flies to shyt to the point that the players (Dallas Cowboys and others) crossed the picket line to play and gave up a lot of their rights. Both the players and owners knew right then and there that FOOTBALL was the KING KONG MUTHAfukkA in America.

thats a good point too.