Three quarters of the NFL's starting quarterbacks are in their first four years in the league. A top baseball player lasts fifteen to twenty years. We know him like an old friend. The baseball Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, New York, beside James Fenimore Cooper's Lake Glimmerglass, the football Hall of Fame is in Canton, Ohio, beside the freeway. Baseball means Sping's Here.
Football means Winter's Coming.
Baseball's record on race relations is poor. But football's is much worse. Baseball has a drug problem comparable to society's. Pro football has a range of substance-abuse problems comparable only to itself. And, perhaps, the Hell's Angels'.