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Football leaving baseball in the dust

By Sean McAdam
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

More out of habit than anything else, we still refer to baseball as the national pastime. In truth, the tag hasn't fit for some time. Football began making inroads as far back as the 1970s, and two decades later, it wasn't much of a contest anymore. If baseball still had the hearts and minds of the American sports fan, then football could lay claim to everything else. By any measure -- TV viewership, merchandise sold, fan surveys -- football rules. The game may not be superior, but it undeniab ...

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