Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Geography Of Fandom


Click on the above photo for a close up...

Well, kickoff for the 2010 season is just a few days away, and I thought I would celebrate by tracking down a fan census map for NFL teams, outdated though this one may be. (It seems to have a lot of Green Bay Packers fans in Mississippi, which would hint that it was pre "retirement" era Favre.)
Not surprisingly, the bedrock of Titans fans are located in Tennessee, northern Alabama, and southern Kentucky, which at the risk of getting too Toynbee, I would dub a "culture area". Interesting to see that there is a firm pocket of Saints fans in mid-Mississippi, particularly in the Jackson area, which has always looked to the Gulf Coast for its culture. North of Jackson, they look towards Memphis, and thus you have seafood in Jackson, bbq in Oxford. But I digress into culinary flotsam...

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