Baseball has more scoring plays, more serious scoring threats and more meaningful action plays. Baseball has no clock. Yes, you were waiting for that. The comeback from three or more scores behind is far more common in baseball than football. The majority of players on a football field in any game are lost and unaccountable in the middle of pileups.
Confusion hides a multitude of sins.
Every baseball player's performance and contribution are measured and recorded in every game. Some San Francisco linemen now wear dark plexiglas visors inside their facemasks - even at night. Unbelievably stupid rules. For example, if the two-minute warning passes, any play that begins even a split second thereafter is nullified. Even, as happened in 1987's Washington-San Francisco game, when it's the decisive play of the entire game.