But there are several teams (Packers is one off the top of my head, I think the Giants also) that do not have cheerleaders.

This one pretty much aligns with my perspective. Oh, and I like American style football played at the professional level.

If you're referring to why the NFL is popular more so than any other sport in the U.S right now, I think it involves a few things:

1. The sense of cultural belonging to supporting a local football team on a cool, crisp autumn evening or Saturday afternoon in the fall in high school.

2. How relatively inexpensive the sport is when compared to baseball and hockey.

3. The size of the sporting venues are larger than any other sport out there in the U.S.

4. The violence of the sport appeals to our id.

5. The strike of 1994 in MLB caused a fall in the popularity of MLB.

I'm behind this...

The better question is 'why would someone with such dislike for a sport or team spend so much time here?"

This place is like the 4 c h a n of NFL fan sites...

Irony...

Nope, more simple...

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I"ll take "hes a dumb****" for $1000

That is so rude. You are probably the rudest person in history. You are ruder than Rick Rude.

I'm more ravishing also

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I want to see a Ravishing Rico Rude mulletman character

I know this LIFE is better with football, baseball and fishing and sucks without it.

Also when you take your kids to their first Chiefs game or Royals game or them catch a big fish and that's all they talk about for a year as if it was the greatest day ever then you know that time was special. So is NFL, MLB, Fishing important? They are to me. Then you take them out and do it again because that's what it's all about.

It's amazing to see Ops transformation into this Claylike cartoon
This place does strange things to people.