Baseball is played in a park--a baseball park.
Football is played in a stadium--often called Soldier's Field or War Memorial Stadium.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying.

Football is concerned with downs. "What down is it?"
Baseball is concerned with ups. "I'm not up. Is he up? You're up!"

In football, you receive a penalty.
In baseball, you make an error. Oops!

In football, the specialist comes in to kick something.
In baseball, the specialist comes in to relieve someone.

Football has hitting, clipping, piling on, spearing, personal fouls, and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has the sacrifice.

Football is played in any kind of weather--rain, snow, sleet, fog, hail, can't see the game, don't know if there is a game, can't see the uniforms, can't see the yard-lines, the struggle must go on!
Baseball isn't played if it's raining. "I can't go out--it's raining!"

Baseball has the seventh inning stretch.
Football has the two minute warning.

In baseball, in the stands there's a picnic feeling. Emotions may run high, but there's not that much unpleasantness.
In football, in the stands you can count on at least 27 times you will feel perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being......Preferably a stranger.