I would say College Football came first because I live in New Hampshire and go to a lot of UNH Basketball games and they have posters that say they had a football team in the late 1890's. I'm pretty sure there wasn't a NFL in the 1890's.
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The last Super Bowl was viewed by 97 million people. The college football championship game was viewed by 23 million.
College football started in 1869 when Rutgers University played Princeton University. Pro football was started in 1920 with twelve teams