Just to add to that whole baseball is regional...

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Hardly. I'm an avid NFL fan. It's a close second to baseball in my heart, but I confess: I cannot name ONE player on the Oakland Raiders, the Buccaneers, Titans, Chiefs, and probably a couple more. I kid you not. I have the NFL Sunday Ticket, too, and still can't name a single player on any of those aforementioned teams. And I consider myself a sports nut!

Donte Culpepper went to the Raiders after being at Miami for a year after he was released. And Jamarcus Russell was their first round draft pick this year.

The Buccaneers has Jeff Garcia that was with the Eagles when Donavan McNabb was hurt

Vince Young is with the Titans and was a first round draft pick last season and is on the cover of Madden 08.

The Chiefs have Larry Johnson and Priest Holmes which came back a neck injury about 2 years ago.

Now that was without looking. Stop calling yourself an avid if you cannot name some of these names.

And the Patriots-Redskins game had more viewers in the middle of the season (52-7) at a different time than the World Series later that night when the Red Sox won the WS. The NFL game received over a 14.0 Nielsen rating and the World Series was around a 10.0-11.0 rating.

I worked my first round playoff game on last Friday for the IHSA Playoffs. It rained 30 minutes before the game until the game ended. There were more people in the stands and on the sides of the fences in that one game then there was all my Class A and AA Post Season Baseball games combined during the 2007 season. And the weather was much nicer during every game and with the sun out most of the time as well. And this is an avid baseball town.

Peace