Nfl fans by county...No surprise

[ejay183]

It's a dumb list. I always thought that Alaska was primarily pro-Seahawks

As someone who lives in Anchorage, they are. The local sports guy was sideline at the Falcons/Hawks game. The Seahawks are the local team according to the TV stations up here cause their games bump every other team. I question the data behind this map.

[HighOnHendrix]

I'm wondering which team the red splotch in Alaska stands for. There are like 7 different shades of red on that map.

I went into paint and matched it. It's the Chiefs.

WTF

Considering the population density in Alaska, that could be one guy huddling in his remote cabin Unabomber-style.

[SkinsGuy]

What is up with Alaska's love affair with the Packers?

No kidding. I was like

Northern Alaska is Steeler country?!? What the heck is up there to indicate that? Caribou and Bigfoot?

[balki1867]

As someone who lives in Anchorage, they are. The local sports guy was sideline at the Falcons/Hawks game. The Seahawks are the local team according to the TV stations up here cause their games bump every other team. I question the data behind this map.

Hm, its based on self-reported Facebook likes and locations of the people 'liking' things.

The good news is that there really is no issue of people trying to game the system. The bad news is that you can essentially put any place you want as your hometown. I imagine that people who are untrusting of putting personal information online might just put some place in Alaska as their current city. I know that WAY back in the ICQ days, I used to put the Christmas Islands as my location.

[Stugein]

Hm, its based on self-reported Facebook likes and locations of the people 'liking' things.

This. It's less a map of NFL fans and more a map of "NFL fans that use Facebook AND have liked their team's official page". Team A can outnumber Team B in a region 100:1, but if that 1 for Team B is the only one that likes his team's official Facebook page...

[DCSaints_fan]

The Jets totally own western Long Island

[nelsonal]

Northern Alaska is mostly oil workers. I'd be surprised if there weren't a decent amount of former Pittsburg/Ohio river valley folks in that industry (oil extraction would seem to have a skill set that would be easier than many industries to transition into from coal mining/steel plants--ie caution around dangerous machinery, differing schedules, etc).

[jfr3ek]

i find this to be incorrect. i live in Virginia Beach and there's a ton of REDSKINS fans here.

[HighOnHendrix]

i find this to be incorrect. i live in Virginia Beach and there's a ton of REDSKINS fans here.

I agree that Skins fans outnumber Cowturd fans down here but it can't be by a lot; Dallas fans are everywhere, they are like lice. You can't fault the sample size but the unscientific-ness of it being based on FB likes is certainly skewing the results for VA. Really all that graph means is that more likes were detected for the Cowboys in those places, which is not the same thing as saying there are more of their fans there.

[mike42]

The Southern Virginia portion makes me want to throw up, that is so embarrassing for this state.

Facebook likes are a little misleading, but are kind of accurate. When you go by facebook likes you are looking at a majority of younger people like 14-27, these young people in southern Virginia don't feel the pull of DC or even remember the "glory days" and rural areas tend to usually front run for an obnoxious team like the Steelers or Cowboys. Older people in the southern more rural counties are less likely to have facebooks than people people here I would imagine, so if you factor the older people of the southern counties into this, you might see almost all Redskins across the board. I think with a 10-6 season and the media and playing pull of a guy like RG3, Redskins will gain ground.

I hope, at least. My hypothesis is almost all speculation.

Ever since I moved down to southern VA, it has been a disgrace. I see more Pittsburgh fans than Cowboy fans...so I'm questioning the accuracy of this map. The redskin fans around here are typically 30+ old and the young fans are mostly Pittsburgh fans. Some of it has to do with the lack of Redskin success in the previous two decades.

Few years ago my local fox affiliate stopped airing redskins games. They air Atlanta/Dallas games instead.

Sure, we are vastly nothing like Northern Virginia population wise, but Snyder needs to come down to this area and re-promote the redskins to young audience like what Marshall/Cooke use to do!

[Switchgear]

The Cowboy fan counties in southwestern Virginia are intriguing. I wonder how strong the correlation is between meth use and Cowboy fandom.