You can get a spot on a Wrigley Rooftop for $69 for Sunday's game.
You will probably share it with pigeons and seagulls.
If you really want to know the level of the Cubs most fanatical fans, check to see who shows up at Wrigley Field on Sunday.
For Sunday is the start of the NFL season. The Bears play, at home, against the Bengals.
For all the talk of Cubs-White Sox fan loyalty, there is no question that Chicago is a Bears town. That is the number one game. The NFL is the Number One sport in America. A TV reporter claimed that a research study found that 183 million Americans were football fans, and of that amount, 86 million were "avid" football fans.
Those numbers seem exceedingly high. But there are reasons why football is so popular. It is short season (16 games). The game has the intensity and pace which is good for sports bar patrons. The gambling world loves football. And fantasy football players are on the rise.
Four television networks plus the NFL's own programming saturate the nation every day of the week with pro football coverage. In some cable packages, you can see just about any game you want. Locally, the pre-game shows last three hours before kick-off. An insane amount of time, resources and money is thrown at the production and consumption of NFL football.
Baseball cannot come close to this frenzy, even during the playoffs. Baseball has a problem because going to a game and sitting in the stands for 3.5 hours is a "social" event. The pace of the game gives you an opportunity to converse, chat, joke, predict and talk with the people around you. But many younger kids and teenagers don't care about social conversation. They are most comfortable texting or tweeting messages to friends or surfing the net for highlights or updated fantasy team stats.
Baseball was once the nation's pastime. The NFL is clearly America's Sport.
