Salon Mention, Redux (Wizbang Sports)

Steven Taylor and I were e-terviewed by King Kaufman of Salon.com about why it is that there seem to be so many more baseball blogs than football blogs. In addition to being SportsBlog contributors, we're the co-authors of Dallas Cowboys Football.

The resulting column is now up.

The full text of my comments is below:

King: I may be wrong, but it's my impression that while the world is fairly swimming in baseball blogs, there aren't nearly as many football blogs. Since you are football bloggers, I'm wondering if you agree with my assessment, and if so, why you think that might be.

Me: An interesting observation. It's rather odd, since football is clearly much more popular as a spectator sport. Football also seems to lag in other things, like card collecting and fantasy leagues.

Off the top of my head, I'd say a large part of it comes from the fact that baseball has 162 games in the regular season and a three-series playoff format. So, MLB has spring training in March, plays from April through November, and then only three months off. There's therefore always something to write about. Football, by contrast, only lasts from September through January. In the NFL, 16 games plus 3 playoff games. In college, 10-11 games plus maybe a conference title game and a bowl. So, most of the time, all there is to write about is speculative.

Cross-posted at DCF.

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Comments (3)

No mention of SportsBlog? I... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by Sean Hackbarth | September 11, 2003 3:19 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Sean Hackbarth:

No mention of SportsBlog? I'm hurt! ;-)

Good comments.

Posted on September 11, 2003 15:19

Thanks.And, yeah, ... (Below threshold)

2. Posted by James Joyner | September 11, 2003 3:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

James Joyner:

Thanks.

And, yeah, Steven and I both mentioned SportsBlog to him in separate e-mails.

Posted on September 11, 2003 15:22

It must have worked. Thanks... (Below threshold)

3. Posted by Sean Hackbarth | September 13, 2003 12:53 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

It must have worked. Thanks.

Posted on September 13, 2003 00:53