Football is a dumb, brutal sport. Baseball is a thousand times better, but
ALL sports are overcommercialized and overhyped.

The reasons?

1) PROFIT.

2) A "bread and circuses" distraction from the serious economic and
political problems we all face. The corporate and government powers want us
to hide our heads in the sand and ignore their crimes. Obsessions with
sports are encouraged as they keep peoples' minds off what their criminal
government is doing and the lies the sponsors are telling.