And, as such, it seems they ought to be able to tell us something about ourselves and our values. And maybe how those values have changed over the last 150 years. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park. Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying.
In baseball you wear a cap. Football is concerned with downs. Baseball is concerned with ups. In football you recieve a penalty. In baseball you make an error.