84 Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do. 85 Baseball nicknames go on forever - because we feel we know so many players intimately. Football monikers run out fast. We just don't know that many of them as people.
Baseball measures a gift for dailiness.
87 Football has two weeks of hype before the Super Bowl. Baseball takes about two days off before the World Series. 88 Football, because of its self-importance, minimizes a sense of humor. Baseball cultivates one. Knowing you'll lose at least 60 games every season makes self-deprecation a survival tool.