nielsen ratings for the super bowl compared to the world series...

Unfortunately, globally speaking... the World Cup has us beat... 3/4 of the planet watch it... But, we still got the Super Bowl... go Broncos!!!

Go to the bar during a cubs game and conduct a random survey lol jk.

Do you know what a pastime is?

you cant. it's not. Off topic, we shouldnt even call it football. Real football (our soccer) is the biggest sport in the world

I think you have the process backwards. Perhaps you should save the preconceived notion until you actually "have" the facts and then decide, rather than form the opinion and then go out and look for support.

dude. baseball is americas game.....

By going to Graduate School and writing a Masters thesis.

How the heck would anyone here know, and if they did, why would it be worth their time?

Baseball has been, and always will be "America's pastime"

It a saying attached to baseball for many a year.

Unfortunately, you can't. It's because baseball really is America's pastime. You could be a huge football fan, a huge hockey fan, a huge soccer fan, or a huge baseball fan, but baseball is America's sport, just like soccer is the European's (and South America's) sport, the game of baseball has been played in the US since the early 1900s and is still very popular today.

Good luck - because there are no statistics to validate your claim.
How many Americans have played baseball.
How many Americans have played football.
How many Americans have gone to a Major League Baseball game.
How many Americans have gone to a NFL game.

No comparison.

Football is probably more popular, as it doesn't demand attention every night, mainly takes place on nice, casual weekends during the frostier part of the year, and requires no subtlety of thought or insight to understand it. But then "invade territory and conquer enemy" has been a popular activity for millennia.

That's not the core of a pastime. When someone asserts that Joe Blow made the greatest catch ever in '54 (over the shoulder, no-look), or collectors worry about getting some running back's rookie card in mint condition, or Ken Burns directs a massive, 20-hour epic entitled "Football", or kids now grown think back on how much fun it was to have a pass-and-run with Dad on those lazy summer evenings, will there be any need to worry about baseball's place.

Football is popular, sure.

Baseball is part of the national fabric.

You're going to have a lot of problems.

1.) Pastime is a term that is no longer used. It's an idiomatic term that has come to imply, among other things, the old days.

2.) Football's very nature works against the term. It's hard hitting and militaristic. Pastime implies a much more genial game.

3.) Nobody really cares.

Baseball is aging and falling in popularity. More people watch football. The super bowl has subplanted the World Series as the sporting event of the year. In not to much more time the Final 64 will do the same. The NFL and college football are mainstream TV viewing during the regular season while the MLB is now on cable. YOU WIN.

Whoever says baseball is dying in popularity is very wrong. If it wasn't so popular anymore then why in each of the last 2 years has the attendence record been broken? Even in the minor leagues it is up. Of course football ratings are going to be higher than baseball. They play once a week as opposed to everyday. People feel that they can miss a baseball game because there are so many on TV. The Super Bowl is one game, winner take all and the World Series is a best of 7. If baseball played a 1 game World Series the ratings would be a lot higher. The last reason football ratings are so high is because of gambling. Half the people watching don't even know much about the sport but they have money on some games.