It seems that Bud Selig is tired of playing the Barney Fife to Roger Goddell’s Andy Griffith. We all know Selig as the puttering old man who has run Major League baseball into the ground and has made every fan wary of any milestone that gets broken. Well, sometimes perception is reality and sometimes it’s not.
Major League Baseball is the bastard stepchild of the NFL no longer, at least in terms of revenue. While we were lead to believe that baseball was a dying game full of roided-up roided by freaks. Baseball was supposed to be losing fans hand over fist to the NFL. “The inner-city won’t embrace the game,” they said. Well, don’t believe the NFL Hype machine.
Baseball’s revenue has grown for three billion in 2000 to six billion in 2006. This growth fueled by record breaking attendance figures the last two years. The NFL’s revenue grew at half that rate over the same period of time. So, amidst the biggest steroid crisis in the history of professional sports, baseball has seen 100 percent revenue growth over the last six years. It is true that baseball plays many more games that football, but the revenue growth cannot be ignored. Football is still king, but don’t sleep on the American pastime.
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