Whats your towns most popular sport?

[Guest Vitamin X]

Well L.A. is a bandwagon town essentially, like wrestling marks. If the Clippers got good, they'd be popular. Dodger popularity is based on their winning, or losing, streak. Oh and Trojan fans are now coming out of the woodwork, but UCLA splits the fanbase. I hate non-school affiliated Trojan fans though.

 

The Lakers, obviously, are #1.

I don't know about you but I grew up a UCLA fan. I've noticed kids that've grown up in low to middle-class area are UCLA fans and USC fans are usually kids that grow up in upper-class areas. Gee I wonder why...(University of Spoiled Children)

[Ed Wood Caulfield 0]

From an outsider's perspective, perhaps the New York Rangers in 1994.

I remember the New York Knicks getting a good amount of coverage and attention in New York City back in 1994 during their run to the NBA Finals. I remembered it was the Rangers first, the Knicks second, the Yankees at third with the Mets at fourth. I don't remember seeing the Yankees get alot of coverage while the NBA and NHL playoffs were happening, but I could be wrong. I do remember the Yankees and Mets being pretty much forgotten when the Rangers won the Cup. The Knicks were in the spotlight back in 1999 when they went to the Finals again, although they had to share the spotlight this time with the Yankees and the Mets, who were both having winning seasons, and so all three teams got a great amount of attention and coverage.

[The Mandarin 0]

SHIT YEAH, SON.

 

 

 

..We also mildly like the Blue Jays.

[DerangedHermit 0]

Lessee (in terms of coverage):

Yanks

Mets

Giants

Jets

Knicks

Nets

Rangers

Devils

Islanders

then....a huge dropoff to

Liberty

Metrostars

Dragons (Arena Football)

 

It changes depending who's in season (say fall (post-WS), it's Giants/Jets, then basketball and hockey and baseball; spring/summer/pre WS fall --- see above; post-Super Bowl, Nets/Knicks, then hockey then baseball)

[The Czech Republic 0]

Lessee (in terms of coverage):

Yanks

Mets

Giants

Jets

Knicks

Nets

Rangers

Devils

Islanders

then....a huge dropoff to

Liberty

Metrostars

Dragons (Arena Football)

 

It changes depending who's in season (say fall (post-WS), it's Giants/Jets, then basketball and hockey and baseball; spring/summer/pre WS fall --- see above; post-Super Bowl, Nets/Knicks, then hockey then baseball)

Wow. That's all Greater New York.

[Guest Anglesault]

From an outsider's perspective, perhaps the New York Rangers in 1994.

I remember the New York Knicks getting a good amount of coverage and attention in New York City back in 1994 during their run to the NBA Finals. I remembered it was the Rangers first, the Knicks second, the Yankees at third with the Mets at fourth. I don't remember seeing the Yankees get alot of coverage while the NBA and NHL playoffs were happening, but I could be wrong. I do remember the Yankees and Mets being pretty much forgotten when the Rangers won the Cup. The Knicks were in the spotlight back in 1999 when they went to the Finals again, although they had to share the spotlight this time with the Yankees and the Mets, who were both having winning seasons, and so all three teams got a great amount of attention and coverage.

I look at it a little differently. I take into account that whatever is going on currently (Baseball, football, hockey, basketball) is probably going to get the lions share of the coverage.

 

The real way to check a sport's true popularity is it's coverage in the off season.

 

Baseball blows the other three out of the water.

 

And 99 Knicks were nowhere near the excitement level of the Yankees or even the Mets.

[monkey 0]

Well in Birmingham football (soccer) rules the roost with the odd bit of rugby and cricket in the summer thrown in.

[King Kamala 0]

My town(Portland, Maine) doesn't have any major league sports, but we're so into the Boston teams. So I'll rank them,

 

 

1. Red Sox

2. Patriots

3. High School Football (On a good night 7-8,000 people attend a game between crosstown rivals. Despite Maine never having even a college football star.)

4. Sea Dogs (Local Double A affliate of the Red Sox. Wouldn't be this high if they weren't associated with the Red Sox)

5. Tie, Bruins and Celtics. Probably both could go higher or lower depending on the quality of that year's team.

6. High School basketball. Could be higher then Bruins and Celtics, if one of them aren't doing so well.

7. Pirates (Local AHL affliate of the Washington Capitals)

8. Yankees (Fairly big Yankees contingent in Portland)

9. MLS (About 12,000 people attended a preseason MLS game here two years ago. That's like 3x bigger then the yearly Capitals preseason games that come here.)

10. High School baseball

[DerangedHermit 0]

Lessee (in terms of coverage):

Yanks

Mets

Giants

Jets

Knicks

Nets

Rangers

Devils

Islanders

then....a huge dropoff to

Liberty

Metrostars

Dragons (Arena Football)

 

It changes depending who's in season (say fall (post-WS), it's Giants/Jets, then basketball and hockey and baseball; spring/summer/pre WS fall --- see above; post-Super Bowl, Nets/Knicks, then hockey then baseball)

Wow. That's all Greater New York.

Yeah...not really much of a difference anywhere on LI (except maybe the LI Ducks or HS sports get mentions near the bottom in Newsday or on News 12)

[Guest Anglesault]

I was about to say that you put the Liberty way too high, but then I saw it was in terms of coverage.

 

They try so damn hard to make people care about the WNBA.

[Guest Fook]

SHIT YEAH, SON.

 

 

 

..We also mildly like the Blue Jays.

Please. No one likes the Jays. That's why they can barely get 15000 fans to a 60000+ seat stadium.

 

Leafs > Raptors > Jays

[Ed Wood Caulfield 0]

From an outsider's perspective, perhaps the New York Rangers in 1994.

I remember the New York Knicks getting a good amount of coverage and attention in New York City back in 1994 during their run to the NBA Finals. I remembered it was the Rangers first, the Knicks second, the Yankees at third with the Mets at fourth. I don't remember seeing the Yankees get alot of coverage while the NBA and NHL playoffs were happening, but I could be wrong. I do remember the Yankees and Mets being pretty much forgotten when the Rangers won the Cup. The Knicks were in the spotlight back in 1999 when they went to the Finals again, although they had to share the spotlight this time with the Yankees and the Mets, who were both having winning seasons, and so all three teams got a great amount of attention and coverage.

I look at it a little differently. I take into account that whatever is going on currently (Baseball, football, hockey, basketball) is probably going to get the lions share of the coverage.

 

The real way to check a sport's true popularity is it's coverage in the off season.

 

Baseball blows the other three out of the water.

 

And 99 Knicks were nowhere near the excitement level of the Yankees or even the Mets.

True. The Yankees defintley get the most attention during the off-season, particulary when they get a big name player to join the team (Giambi in 2001, A-Rod in 2004). It defintley gets alot of coverage, lasting days even weeks.

[Gert T 0]

In Dayton, Ohio college basketball and the Dayton Flyers are the king. They average about 12,000 fans per game and it is no coincidence that they get the NCAA Tournament play-in game every year as they get about 7,500 people for that.

 

Ohio State football is next, although the number of fans has "risen" since the 2002 season.

 

Sadly, I would say Dayton is 50-50 split on the Browns/Bengals with the Browns with a slight edge due to older fans having only the Bengals around since 1968.

 

Dayton Dragons (Single A affliate of the Reds) is huge as they sellout their 8,500 seat ballpark EVERY night!

 

NBA & NHL is indifferent and we are a pretty big NASCAR town too.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

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