re: The decreased interest in baseball is evident on this board

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NFL became a national sport in large part because it hold two big advantages over baseball

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because it uses television appropriately, and created a competitive league while the Yankees won 4 world series in a row. It's all about television, that's where the NFL wins and continues to win.

also, the NFL balanced marketing teams and players. Up until 2006, I thought they could do no wrong.

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NFL became a national sport in large part because it hold two big advantages over baseball

1) You can easily play fantasy sports with it
2) You can easily gamble on it.

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really is that simple imo

yes football would still be huge if it wasn't for fantasy but the stratospheric growth is all fantasy based otherwise it would still be a largely regional game save for a few big teams/players