Baseball vs Football

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In most sports the object of the game is to score points or to score goals… in Baseball the object is to score runs. Most sports the ball is put in play by the offensive team, in baseball the defensive puts the ball in play and only the defense is allowed to touch the ball. In fact in baseball if an offensive player even touches the ball intentailly “HE’s OUT” Baseball: 19th century pastorial game Football: 20th century technological struggle Baseball is played on a diamond in a 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 new life... Football begins in the fall when everything is dying… Football you were a helmet Baseball you wear a cap Football the specialist comes in to kick Baseball the specialist comes in to relieve someone Football you receive a penalty Baseball you make an error… OOPS Football has hitting, spearing, blocking, piling on, late hitting, un-necessary roughness, and personal fouls Baseball has the sacrifice… Football is played in any kind of weather: rain, sleet, snow, hail, mud… cant read the yard markers, cant read the player’s numbers… the struggle will continue Baseball if it’s raining you cant come out to play Baseball has 7th inning stretch Football has the 2 minute warning Baseball has no time limit Football is rigidly timed and will end even we have to go into sudden death Baseball in the stands, theres kind of a picnic feeling… emotions may run high or low but theres not that much unpleasantness Football in the stands during the game you can be sure that at least 27 times you’re perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being, preferably a stranger… Football the object of the game is for the quarterback, always known as the field general, to be on-target with his aerial assaults, riddling the

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