The league began to supplant baseball as America's most popular spectator sport in 1958, when the then-NFL Championship Game between the then-Baltimore Colts and the [[New York Giants]] was broadcast nationwide (though ironically not in New York City) and ended in a sudden-death overtime win by the Colts. Today NFL franchises are a leading example of [[crony capitalism]],<ref>https://frontofficesports.com/anheuser-busch-ending-exclusive-super-bowl-deal-with-nfl/</ref> such that team owners rake in billions of dollars by milking taxpayers and promoting vices like [[beer]] and [[gambling]]. The NFL has $110 billion in media deals annually and yet supports shockingly little [[charity]]. Far more people are harmed by the NFL than genuinely helped by it. | The league began to supplant baseball as America's most popular spectator sport in 1958, when the then-NFL Championship Game between the then-Baltimore Colts and the [[New York Giants]] was broadcast nationwide (though ironically not in New York City) and ended in a sudden-death overtime win by the Colts. Today NFL franchises are a leading example of [[crony capitalism]],<ref>https://frontofficesports.com/anheuser-busch-ending-exclusive-super-bowl-deal-with-nfl/</ref> such that team owners rake in billions of dollars by milking taxpayers and promoting vices like [[beer]] and [[gambling]]. The NFL has $110 billion in media deals annually and yet supports shockingly little [[charity]]. Far more people are harmed by the NFL than genuinely helped by it. |