MLB was always more popular than NFL except perhaps when the baseball players went on strike a few years ago.   Attendance at MLB games are through the roof with some teams experiencing some problem due to poor performance and consistent lack of improvements.  Football was bound to burn itself out with all the TV coverage.   It's just over saturation.  Now politic's has been injected into the game and that just destroys the fans ability to escape all that and just enjoy a game.   I blame the players and coaches and especially the gutless owners for not stopping this.   If you threaten these players with a forfeit of their salary ... even the dump ones will shut up.  We're talking thousands of dollars here they'd lose.   I'm perfectly content to watch the baseball playoffs and World Series rather than foolsball.