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Carlin hit the nail on the head when he uttered:
"Baseball is a nineteenth century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth century technological struggle."
For the past two months there has been too much talk about who should be in Baseball Hall of Fame and what to do with players who may have used performance enhancing drugs but were never caught breaking baseball drug policy.
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But football is different. There is no teeth gnashing or feeling of exasperation over a real life criminal being nominated and having a chance to get into the football shrine in Canton, Ohio.
Eddie DeBartolo Jr. is one of 15 people whosefootball credentials will be examined by voters on Saturday. "Eddie D" as he was known within National Football League circles had extraordinary success as the owner of the San Francisco 49ers franchise between 1977 and 1999. The team won five Super Bowls and Eddie spent whatever was necessary to make sure his 49ers had the best players. His 49ers won 13 divisional titles, made 16 trips to the playoffs and took part in 10 National Football Conference Championship Games during his 22 years in charge.
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He was the prototype for the successful NFL owner.
Under normal circumstances Edward DeBartolo Jr. should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a contributor. But the case for Eddie D. is complicated. You see Eddie had a little problem with political corruption in Louisiana.
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Eddie D. District Court Judge John Parker Louisiana courtroom to a felony charge of failing to report that Louisiana former governor Edwin Edwards allegedly extorted $400,000 from him to win Marshawn Lynch Jersey a casino license in 1997.
With the plea, DeBartolo avoided prison. He also agreed to pay $1 million in penalties, serve two years of probation, and testify in future trials against Edwards and his son, Stephen, in a federal probe into the state gambling industry. The court case ended DeBartolo involvement with the 49ers.
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DeBartolo also played fast and fancy with the NFL salary cap rules but for some inexplicable reason NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue looked the other way even though there were whispers around the league in the 1990s that Eddie D 49ers were willfully not following the league rules.
The salary cap www.footballseahawksprostore.com/Nike-Richard-Sherman-Jersey.html circumventing story came after DeBartolo was out of the league.
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Football newspapers will be deciding whether Eddie D. should go into the Hall of Fame. There is no problem that Eddie D may have broken some of his sport's rules along the way from the football voters unlike the baseball voters who seem to judge every player guilty and demand players prove their innocence.
George Carlin looked at baseball and football from afar. But Dave Sims is heavily involved in both sports as an announcer for Major League Baseball Seattle Mariners and an announcer for the weekly NFL broadcast on the renamed Westwood One radio network. Sims as it turns out is a big fan of the Carlin routine.
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Dave Sims in a way brings George Carlin baseball football stand up to life when comparing why baseball fans have problems with alleged drug users and football fans aren yelling about Eddie D.
"In baseball, people followed it religiously, follow the tradition and hold it to high standards. They are super judge mental. It an everyday sport," said Sims. "Football passes quickly and fans are not in on the machinations of Eddie DeBartolo.
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"Baseball fans have a reverence for baseball; football is not at the same level. Baseball fans get upset www.footballseahawksprostore.com/Nike-Russell-Wilson-Jersey.html when the trust gets broken."
The baseball fan looks at the baseball stadium as a cathedral while a football stadium is a place where you take your car into the parking lot, tailgate and then enter the stadium and watch a game.
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Baseball is a game built on statistics.
The National Football League New York Giants franchise was founded in 1925 by a bootlegger named Tim Mara. The NFL modern era which started in 1958 with the "Greatest Game Ever Played" the National football League Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx during a decade when the Yankees franchise won six World Series during baseball so called "Golden Era."
