MLB Season vs NFL Season

Last nights MLB playoff games were all loaded with postseason heroics and late inning excitement. After 162 games, played by 30 teams, the thrill of the final ten games of the MLB season leading into the playoffs has offered us with edge of the seat drama. The Yankees bottom of the ninth inning with Raul Ibanez hitting the tying and walk off home runs or Coco Crisp's ninth inning single to score Seth Smith, have many sports fans labeling Major League Baseball as "America's Greatest Game". I beg to differ. As a fan a baseball, I have choked myself watching some of the first 140 games throughout the season. Filled with inconsistent play, lack of effort, and a feeling that my favorite players didn't feel like playing that night. Only to see those same players and teams wake up for the final 22 games of the season and try to rally themselves for a playoff push. To me that's not appealing nor does it sell me on the fact that it's "America's Greatest Game". The MLB postseason, just like the NBA and NFL, provides me with a sense of allure and attraction to these great sports. But when I think of "America's Greatest Game" only one sport comes to mind. For 12 years I played in the NFL, and every year my teammates and I trained and prepared for 6 months to play a game that consists of 16 opportunities each year. Every NFL fan has the drama, story lines, and suspense built for seven days in between sixteen weeks until finally Sunday comes for one of those 16 opportunities. The play of your favorite team each and every week, win or lose, will directly affect the postseason drama in January. As a fan, a win or a lose directly affects your week as a person at work and at home. Your moods are, for one week, positioned by your favorite teams with there success and failures. Only to be cured with Andrew Luck's final touchdown drive to beat the heavily favored Green Bay Packers. Folks, as a player and a fan of the NFL, from September 9 till February 3, our lives are altered by the 16 chances the NFL allows use to have. "America's Greatest Game" its easy to me. That's my take and it's coming out of my Mouth.