Football is technological, 20th century.
Baseball is played on a diamond in a park---a baseball park.
Football is played on a gridiron in a stadium---War Memorial Stadium.
In Baseball, you wear a cap.
In Football, you wear a helmet.
In Baseball, you have a 7th inning stretch!
In Football, you have a 2 minute warning!
With Baseball, there's no time limit. We don't know when it's going to end. There might be EXTRA innings!
With Football, it is rigidly timed and it will end even if we have to go to sudden death.
Football is based on downs---What DOWN is it.
Baseball is based on ups--Who's UP, are you UP, I'm not UP!
In Footbal, you get a penalty.
In Baseball, you make an error---whoops!
In Baseball, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling, ya know? Emotions may run high, but there's not that much unpleasantness.
In Football, in the stands, you can be sure that at least 27 times during the game you are capable of taking the life of a fellow humanbeing, preferrably a stranger.
And to sum this up, the object of each game is quite different.
The object of the game in football is for the Quarterback, otherwise known as the Field General, to be on target with his aerial assault riddling the defense by hitting his recievers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy terretory, balancing his aerial assault with a sustained ground attack which punches holes in the forward wall of the enemies' defensive line.
The object of the game in baseball is to go home. I'm going home! I'm going home!
