We have an NHL team, the Blue Jackets. The AAA baseball team the Clippers is popular. They're the Indians top farm team and are owned by the public. In terms of popularity, it's OSU football OSU football recruiting Blue Jackets OSU basketball (when the team is good) Crew Clippers
Agreed, but Houston won out-the-gate as well and the Yeti never came out of the mountains to Robertson to the extent I am hearing he shows up at the Bank. (Sorry to bring up a sore topic for a Quakes fan.)
It is pretty big in Atlanta. On some streets Atl UTD flags outnumber Georgia Tech flags ... it is not uncommon to see AUTD on billboards or bus stops. I have seen beer advertisements using AUTD. People in AU jerseys are probably more common than people in Falcons jerseys. I don't watch local sport news, so I am not sure about that. In Local newspaper Atl Journal Constitution entire front page was dedicated to AU after we won MLS cup.
The Atlanta Falcons are 1-6, but Matt Ryan is one of 12 quarterbacks in NFL history with at least 103 wins for one team. Steve Young, Bart Starr, Troy Aikman, and Roger Staubach are among the quarterbacks with under 100 wins.
This might be confirmation bias, but I see MNUFC gear everywhere here in the Twin Cities. They were especially smart to sign Target as jersey sponsor.
Atlanta is popular outside of Atlanta too. It’s quite common even in Greenville, SC to see a lot tailored towards Atlanta United.
I would think people in Greenville, SC are divided between Charlotte and Atlanta teams, just like Connecticut in between New York and Boston. Atlanta is by far the closest MLS club to Greenville, SC. People in Chattanooga and Huntsville could have a tough decision to stay Atlanta fans or switch to Nashville. Right now Atlanta is the nearest MLS club for all of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. Using the amount of House districts as a population estimate, Atlanta has a higher than average amount of people it is the nearest MLS club for.
Having lived there for a while, half of Chattanooga is on the State line between Tennessee and Georgia, right there where the Appalachian Mountains suddenly drop off, so it is only a 90 minute drive down to Atlanta, well depending on how fast one drives but anyone in the South will tell you it is pretty open on the highways down here. Save Mississippi where the fuzz clock you one tick over the speed limit with outta State plates and you are toast. Tennessee culture, there is this sentiment from many in the East of the State like Knoxville and Chattanooga to Memphis in the West in that Nashville in the center and the Capital is just that. Their own town. And the teams there are their own. A la how us in Texas are, each city is their own sports identity.
My parents had friends on Lookout Mountain they used to visit when I was a kid (ages ago). Spectacularly beautiful area.
Absolutely! Lookout Mountain has to be one of our nation's best kept secrets. Cool fact, the marker at the summit of Lookout Mountain claims seven states may be viewed from the site. Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
That's cool but I doubt you can see all seven. Kentucky and Virginia and probably South Carolina are too far away.
Houston has a couple billboards a light rail train in Dynamo wrap. But other than that it's an afterthought. People wanted AEG out thinking they didn't invest in the team. Little did they know that the new owner is so much worse. The excitement in this city for the team took a sharp decline after moving to the new stadium ironically. Mostly had to do with crappier teams and treating fans poorly.
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Here In DC you hardly hear About DC united, Among the local media markets, most stories about the team came from their team website. Maybe a occasional holler from the Washington Post.. A big difference from years ago.. I mean the last big story about DC united that stuck on Local News was when Wayne Rooney Got Arrested for being British basically at Dulles Airport .... Then the Flo sports thing and the Supporters issue regarding tickets when Audi Field opened... Lately within the last couple of yrs you start to see DC united merch in common stores like target or maybe a rare older DCU VW jersey at a Marshall's or Ross.. still Soccer in DC is still a segmented situationM and with the Capitals Nationals and Mystics winning championships in the last 1.5 years It'll Be tougher.
This has changed in recent weeks. There are billboards on the Kennedy (I-90/94) announcing the move to Soldier Field, the Season ticket deals, the signing of Alvaro Medran. Still not enough, but it is something.
I live far from DC, but I subscribe to the Post online and read it a lot, and second this. Strikes me as strange, how little they pay attention to DCU. They have a weekly "Americans Abroad" recap, and game roundups, but I never see a feature.
I still Blame DC United for their lack of exposure in the City, when they had the sports deal, it seem all media outside DCu internals stopped covering them...
MNUFC needs to get better at generating offseason buzz. If you go to startribune.com, click Sports and then Loons, the main stories you see are from last month. If you click Twins, you see a daily (or more often) stream of stories about roster moves, the Rule 5 draft, the occasional feature. In March, there will be constant Vikings off-season updates.