Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.
You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.