Argumentative Essay

All Americans love their professional sports. From March Madness to Super bowl Sunday, the U.S. is all about the “big game” and all the guts and glory that go along with it. With the Major league Baseball season already underway, and Super Bowl XXXVII having just passed, people may begin to wonder who has the bigger fan base? What sport really is America’s past time?
America’s best attribute is our freedom of choice. We are equipped with the right to choose what we want and when we want it. Just like voting for the president, you have popular vote and electoral vote. Both votes matter but popular vote gets you in the oval office. It is all about what the people want, and here in America what the people want they get, no matter what. Sure in 1866, way before Football was even herd of, baseball was the popular sport of America. But almost a hundred and fifty years later, there have been some major changes in the overall view of what’s popular.
Over the last six years, Complete.com, has conducted a survey in which they illustrated the yearly peaks and valleys of visitors to NFL.com and MLB.com. The NFL casts a shadow over the MLB like a lineman over a batboy. Simply put, America would rather watch a fast paced game. Baseball is more of an old mans sport, where patience is included. Football and baseball are the front-runners and the only reason baseball does as decent as it does in fan ratio is because these two sports are played at opposite parts of the year. Baseball had its fifteen minutes of fame, and now it is nothing more than the nations past time. (Carrige)
National pastime mat not be one of the most controversial things debated today, and there is no doubt that video games and the internet are slowly growing in popularity. But for now, in the sporting world, football is king of the ring, and all other sports bow down.



Work Cited
Carrigg, Ryan. “NFL vs. MLB vs. NBA vs. NHL” Complete.com
3 January 2007. 10 April 2008.