What is America's national pastime?

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Peter King (sportswriter)

Football is America's national pastime.

Country's irreplaceable sport
2/2/2009 3:18:55 PM

Jim Armstrong

Football is America's national pastime.

Football in the past generation has surpassed baseball as the true national pastime
2/2/2009 3:10:47 PM

Michael Bamberger

Football is America's national pastime.

not second guessing but pre-guessing, is part of the fun, a factor in the betting lines and has a lot to do with why the NFL has become the national pastime
2/2/2009 3:10:35 PM

Gregg Doyel

Football is America's national pastime.

baseball just isn't that important anymore in this country
2/2/2009 3:10:16 PM

Sean McAdam

Football is America's national pastime.

More out of habit than anything else, we still refer to baseball as the national pastime. In truth, the tag hasn't fit for some time. Football began making inroads as far back as the 1970s
2/2/2009 3:10:11 PM

Bob Hille

Football is America's national pastime.

So if Pete Rozelle turned the NFL into the national pastime via TV (and, yes, kids, he did)
2/2/2009 3:10:07 PM

Michael A. Bianchi

Football is America's national pastime.

Football is our national pastime. Football is the King
2/2/2009 3:09:41 PM

Kevin Blackistone

Football is America's national pastime.

people wonder how football supplanted baseball as our national pastime. Easy. Football is fan friendly
2/2/2009 3:09:34 PM

Sean Gregory (sportswriter)

Baseball is America's national pastime.

Still votes for baseball
2/2/2009 3:09:32 PM

Scott McClellan

Baseball is America's national pastime.

It's an important sport in the American lifestyle and the American way of life
2/2/2009 3:09:20 PM

Frank Deford

Baseball is America's national pastime.

We Americans just seem to accept our national pastime, even when it lets us down
2/2/2009 3:08:38 PM

USA Today

Baseball is America's national pastime.

Commercialization of national pastime began long ago
2/2/2009 3:08:30 PM

Bud Selig

Baseball is America's national pastime.

It always will be our national pastime
2/2/2009 3:07:51 PM

Henry Waxman (D-CA)

Baseball is America's national pastime.

Baseball is a sport that has a special status under laws passed by Congress because it's our national pastime
2/2/2009 3:07:43 PM

Tim Kurkjian

Baseball is America's national pastime.

National pastime belongs in nation's capital
2/2/2009 3:07:04 PM

Peter Gammons

Baseball is America's national pastime.

Gammons co-authors book about baseball
2/2/2009 3:07:00 PM

Charlie Pierce

Football is America's national pastime.

Thanksgiving Day is the clearest evidence we have of how utterly football has replaced baseball as a national pastime
12/2/2008 1:42:11 PM

Richard Sandomir

Football is America's national pastime.

it overtook baseball as the national pastime
12/1/2008 3:48:46 PM

Bob Smizik

Football is America's national pastime.

Has supplanted baseball
12/1/2008 3:48:36 PM

Condoleezza Rice

Baseball is America's national pastime.

Baseball, of course, is America’s national pastime
12/1/2008 3:48:14 PM