I can understand if you just don't like football. But if you like both sports, why would anyone choose basketball over football? Just ask yourself which sport you wouldn't be able to live without.
Your team really needs to be good for most people to enjoy baseball. In a pennant chase it's eyeballs glued TV, but otherwise its more of a check in and checkout on TV. 1.NBA (first love so it gets the nod) 2.NFL These 2 shift depending on how well UT and the Astros are doing 3.NCAA (i can watch games that don't involve UT) 4.MLB (really has to be Astros, or Astros related to care) 5.Tennis 6.NCAAB, only care about the tourney or big UT games 7.Golf (only Sundays at a major really) I'm a sucker for the Olympics, once every 4 years rowing becomes must see TV.
As weird as this sounds, I think it's specifically about the personal preference of people...some may disagree with me, here: NBA = Much more about the individual players (especially superstars) than anything else. . . Individualism MLB = Much more about the teams and the tradition of the sport... Traditionalism NFL = Much more about the totality of the organization that supercede any handful of teams or players who all can easily be replaced ... 34% Statism, 33% Capitalism, and 33% Socialism.
NFL NBA MLB Everything else My first sport was baseball. Played it and loved it. Then I got a lot larger and moved on to playing football. Fell in love and it never left my heart. Been rooting for the Rockets since the 93ish. That's pretty much when I got into the NBA. Btw, I was like 6 then. I love my Astros and have wallowed in misery since 2005 because of them. I still got the news papers from both championship years.
NBA NFL . NCAAF (interest varies on who my pet teams are at the time) . . NCAAB (interest varies HUGELY on who my pet teams are at the time) . . . Soccer in general . NHL . . MLB
For me right now, it's NFL NBA NHL MLB NCAA Football NCAA Basketball NBA, NHL, and MLB are a lot closer together for me though than NFL. I really love pro football. College sports are great too.
Johnson's, Bird's and Jordan's first retirement undercut the NBA's twenty-year narrative of racial unification and teamwork, and wiped away the national pride brought about by the Dream Team's global dominance. Hip-hop culture and O'Neal's and Webber's rookie salaries and personas narrowed the game's appeal and idealism, and drove older sports fans back to the tradition, history and childhood familiarity of baseball, even in the wake of their strike. If their league office had any promotional or management skills of any kind, the NHL might very well have supplanted one of those two as a major sport.
Actually the Knicks Lakers and Bulls are on the list. And I would guess 3-4 more teams will be on the list in 10 years. Revenue from China will continue to increase. I would also assume a several Chinese players in the league in the future because of yao's popularity.
In other words, a well-regulated, mixed economy with sound institutions and regulations that ensure more stability and prosperity than any other organization of its kind.
1. MLB 2. NCAA Football 3. NBA 4. Tennis 5. NFL 6. International soccer/MLS 7. NHL Like an earlier poster mentioned, I'm a sucker for the Olympics as well. During every summer Olympics and to a lesser extent during the winter Olympics, it becomes my #1 for two weeks. I've just never been all that enthralled with the NFL. I think it has something to do with the fact that during my formative years as a sports fan '97-01 or so, Houston didn't have an NFL team.
NFL( I can watch the HOF preseason game and still be in awe) NBA(one the rockets are done, I won't watch til the finals) NCAA( could easily be no.2) FIFA MLB (damn you father time and the other evil bud*) Are people named bud prone to evil? serious question.
