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Originally Posted by MaVs 41 BaLler
Wow, then that means the majority of the world are band wagoners!
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So what else is new? There were a lot of people who knew about Michael Jordan and wore his shoes without knowing what the difference is between a blocking foul and a charge.
Football didn't blow by baseball in popularity because of the game itself, it was because of Joe Namath and Howard and Dandy Don. A lot of people were pulling for New Orleans in this year's Super Bowl because of Katrina or wanted the Colts to win because they liked Peyton's corn-pone goofiness.
I'm personally amused at all the people who keep yammering about Jordan's drive to be the best ever and conveniently skip over his little baseball experiment when he had three rings and was far from a consensus best that ever played and the backhanded bitch slap he gave the fans, his teammates and the city of Chicago doing it. It doesn't matter if he did it to make a gambling investigation go away or it was his own reasons, a crapload of eyeballs were watching his first game back and it wasn't only Bulls fans.
There are going to be people watching games because of how the team came together, the South Beach location, Jessie Jackson, Cleveland getting punched in the nuts and all the other subplots and a certain percentage will become fans at some level.