Football or Basketball for popularity?

Okay, I'm a dude and I'm in middle school and as you can see it's almost summertime. So I'm getting ready for High School. And I don't know if you guys realize but high school is the start of the rest of your life. Meaning if you're nerdy and unpopular in the beginning of high school, chances are you're gonna be for the next 4 years or more. Anyway, so I'm pretty popular, like there are like 350 people in 8th grade and for popularity i'd be like top 35. But I wanna be more than that. I noticed that all of the really popular kids are in Athletics. So I wanna be too. But the problem is I'm not really sportsy, like i don't even watch games for basketball, but i'm working on that. And I'm going to continue to for the rest of the summer, also on growing, being smarter (But I'm already smart- i'm in PACE-like AP History and Stuff). Basically, I'm reinventing myself. So I'm gonna take a sport in high school to be more popular and hopefully it'll teach me to be less feminine and more masculin. Anyway, I don't know what to choose. Should I do Football or Basketball? Football - i'm not sure cause i tried it before and it was a little too rough for me, or basketball - i'm really good at shooting (so good i won the shootout for my school) but i need to work on everything else. So which should I choose? And please don't give me those responses about being yourself and not doing what everyone else is. If I wanted that I would've watched disney channel. So please, what should I choose?!?!?!?