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Joe Buck Compares Baseball and Football Ratings

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    FOX Sports’ Joe Buck on the popularity of football compared to baseball in America.

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-- in -- -- busy Monday night in television.

59 people watch the debate on various networks.

Monday Night Football got ten point seven million.

And game seven of the National League Championship Series got eight point one million clearly shows football.

Is number one in my personal opinion number one sport in America at a baseball -- -- joining us now is Joe Buck.

Who is the lead counsel for both sports the fox and he joins us now from San Francisco where he will -- game one of the World Series tonight show what a pleasure.

Welcome the program.

Nice to be here thanks for having me.

Now would you agree -- my premise that full poll is just running away with the sporting stakes in America and is by far the most popular.

And brings in more money than any other -- I think you're crazy person.

-- now I.

Think I'm -- yeah obviously I mean I think you look at the NFL and it's it's incredible.

The numbers that we get erratic -- -- both it's incredible week after week when we do these late Sunday windows a reveal playoff game -- we do a Super Bowl.

Every year the Super Bowl grows I mean you're way over a hundred million people when you're doing a Super Bowl.

And that's that's on one side and then we do Major League Baseball and -- right night tonight week to week.

You're getting an NFL property that bid everybody's tuning into but what we're happy about it fox and where we get our satisfaction is night after night.

You know this is not a week to week thing at the end of October when we sit down and think about the number of people that watch these games.

Throughout the weeks.

-- -- a -- one and one Major League Baseball holds its own.

There really didn't despite whatever the match up may be so long what you're right we're joined that it.

I don't I'm -- gonna do want quick on and that is English Premier League soccer.

I think that's the -- off course here I think it's coming up real strong -- gonna overtake may be hawking in the ratings pretty soon and fox is -- it.

What do you say.

-- yeah -- and a -- right and I I hear more people talking about soccer is we call it here but football is as you would call it.

More than I ever have and I know fox is excited to have the rights.

To cover to cover soccer and and it's it's definitely -- growing sport I come from Saint Louis and Louis is a huge Soccer City believe -- not.

In the United States and so I've grown up around the sport but I I think you're right it's it's it's it's really hot -- I'm not crazy I knew I wasn't -- -- I got to move on to the I was kidding about that Clara.

Could talk -- well.

Doing -- promotion join the World Series is now that's crazy that yet it.

That occur if anyone of -- got this right if anyone steals a base every one in America gets a free taco is that.

Right is that that -- that can't we can't -- be right but you're right yes -- one base.

One based Dolan.

Everybody in America gets a free -- do get to talk that was a -- to faces a stolen in -- in this at all now now you're back to the crazy or else we can not -- that it's one steel.

One taco.

Every person so -- I don't want to -- it -- -- EL IC won't -- stolen in any game in all seven if it goes to seven and I walk into a Taco -- with my wife -- six children and six grandchildren.

-- we get -- -- violations and all those -- -- welcome we got fourteen tacos for me.

Well yes it's unbelievable.

Yeah and yes steal -- steal -- base -- cocktail we've done in the past.

America did not crumble Taco Bell.

That exists today and they're gonna do it yet again that a crazy.

A joke book rules -- rules and -- on the Major League saw that not make I don't know here comes English Premier League soccer.

I joke that was a real pleasure you know you call me crazy just love it come as I look at over the I -- the congress is again good luck Joseph thanks a lot are.

That brought everybody watching.

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