If you'd ever seen John Madden in his Oakland Raiders uniform, you'd know the reason for this custom. Now, I've mentioned football. And as such, it seems they ought to be able to tell us something about ourselves and our values. Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park.
Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium. Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying. In football you wear a helmet. In baseball you wear a cap.