After being a fan of both football and baseball for years, I have begun to understand how different these games really are. Football is much more violent than baseball. In football, the object is to tackle the opponent. The harder the hit, the better the tackle. As a result, many football players are injured each year. In baseball, however, violence is not the object of the game. If a player gets hurt, it is usually because of an accident, such as two players running into each other or a batter being hit by a pitch. The language used to describe each game is also different. The language of football is like the language of war: linemen “blitz,” quarterbacks “throw bombs,” tacklers “crush” receivers, and games end in “sudden-death” overtime.
