The coin flip at the beginning of football games is idiotic. Home teams should always kick off and pick a goal to defend. Baseball is harder. In the last twenty-five years, only one player, Vince Coleman, has been cut from the NFL and the become a success in the Majors. A guy can go 80 mph on a Harley without a helmet, much less a face mask.
Faces are better than helmets.
Now eliminate all the quarterbacks. Now think of all the baseball players whose faces you know, just from the last Series. Baseball has almost no mobsters or suspicious types among its owners. Football has Tank and Mean Joe. Baseball has the Human Rain Delay and Charlie Hustle.