NFL better than MLB
There are many reasons why the NFL is better than Major League Baseball.
The most important of which, to me, is hope.
Every team in the NFL has hope. See, the worst teams get the best draft picks and the easiest schedules the next season. A team that went 4-12 can sign two free agents, get a healthy player back in the lineup, get 2 easy games instead of tough ones and -Bingo! – you’re last season’s Chargers.
The last teams to lose the Super Bowl didn’t even have winning records the following year. Good teams lose players to bad teams, who then become good teams. Everyone has a shot at the playoffs.
In baseball, there are very few teams that ever have a shot. Starting from Opening Day the following teams have ZERO chance to win the Series…Tampa Bay, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Colorado, Milwaukee, Seattle and Texas. That’s one fourth of the league.
In the NFL one fourth of the teams may be rebuilding, but even a team in the eighth year of a five-year plan (insert Arizona or CIncinnati) still has a shot at .500 and a wild car with a few breaks. There ain’t enough breaks in the world gonna get Tampa into the World Series.
Why? Money. In the NFL every team gets about $75 million from tv revenue. In baseball, some teams get nothing. No tv deal. No money at all. Other teams have monstrous corporate cable packages and reap millions from viewers and sponsorship.
Until baseball figures out that the revenue needs to be split like the NFL has figured it out, expect many many baseball teams to be out of the race on day one. They have no hope. Hopeless.
That is why the NFL is better than Major League Baseball.
