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I hadn't exactly noticed the total blackout of baseball, but I had noticed the clustering of football articles here around Friday, Monday and Tuesday. It made me think that a big part of football's success in this country has to do with the quality of its season, as opposed to the game per se. Everyone plays every Sunday (more or less), and no one plays other times (more or less), providing a natural hook for the nation's legion of sports columnists to devote their Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday (and some Tuesday) coverage to king football; this provides the fan a bonanza of concentrated football coverage all around the weekend, further whetting the appetite for the games.
Me, I prefer baseball to football by a wide margin, when it comes to the actual games, but the NFL has everyone beat in the construction of its season. And, just by the way, the extinction of the true pennant race in baseball doesn't help in this regard.
