hondo in seattle Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) So says an Emory University study... https://sports.yahoo.com/cowboys-patriots-eagles-nfls-best-fans-study-finds-142019728.html Edited June 26, 2018 by hondo in seattle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wppete Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Hilarious..... Dolphins, Jets, Ravens Bears have better fans then he Bills??? Stop with the nonesense... 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) my daughter was looking at going to Emory last year...glad she did not, obviously peopled entirely by dumb people! Edited June 26, 2018 by plenzmd1 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) Sure...most of these places would not even have a team left due to lack of fan support if they had to go through what we have been through over the last 17 years. It's really easy to go to games when the team is good. It's really easy to fill stadiums with 10K seats fewer than ours where there are in some cases 20+ times the population(Chicago). Edited June 26, 2018 by matter2003 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 List of dumbest colleges in America 1) Emory University 8 7 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wppete Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 2 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said: my daughter was looking at going to Emory last year...glad she did not, obviously peopled entirely by dumb people! None of my kids are going to Emory after this ridiculous ranking. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlbillsfan1975 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 By his metrics I feel as if the Bills are getting dinged for their overall population and the economy of the region. I can can tell you that the Falcons don’t belong anywhere above the Bills in a true fan poll. The only exception is for the fact that the prices for tickets are extremely costly at the Benz. Not to mention PSL’s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABILLBACKER Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Bears 6 ? Colts 11? A more realistic assessment would be Bills between 6-11 Considering 99% of the human population has never heard of Emory University, who cares? Mellenies love their analytics.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo in seattle Posted June 26, 2018 Author Share Posted June 26, 2018 Perennial winners have good fans. What's impressive about the Bills mafia is how loyal and rabid we are despite the drought and an all-time win percentage of something like .471. I have a lot of respect for Steeler and Packer fans who are clearly passionate about their teams. But how hard is it to support a winning organization? A couple seasons ago, I watched a Bills game with the Bills Backers of Seattle and counted well over 100 fans in attendance all the way here on the other side of the continent. Would Cowboy or Pats fans gather in droves like we do if their teams were perpetually irrelevant? I don't think so. You can quantify team mania in different ways and produce different lists - but Bills fandom is qualitatively different. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansLanda Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Ask Andy Dalton who has the best, most passionate fans. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seregil42 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 I'll just place this here. https://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/12/07/patriots-fans-boo-leave-early-during-eagles-game/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo in seattle Posted June 26, 2018 Author Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) This is a complicated subject actually. So many variables to consider... For example, the Emory prof looks at spending. Well, the per capita income in Buffalo is only about half of the per capita income in some of the bigger NFL markets. Of course Buffalonians spend less. It's an economic factor not a fandom factor. I bet we spend more as a percentage of discretionary income - a fairer measure. Then there's the market. How do you quantify this? The Bills only represent the greater Buffalo area. The other half of the state is represented by those two teams in Jersey. Teams like Seattle and Denver, on the other hand, each represent an entire state. The New England Patriots represent several states. So of course Pats fans spend more. The draw fans from a bigger geographical, more populous area. Think about this: About 7% of the population of metro Buffalo is at the Ralph on a football Sunday. In comparison, only about 2% of the Boston metro area is in Foxborough on Sundays - or about .5% of the New England region that the Pats represent. If game attendance is a measure of fandom, it's easier to find someone who went to the game in Buffalo than in Boston/New England. Edited June 26, 2018 by hondo in seattle 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corta765 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 I don't know why people bother with these studies and get upset. These studies always are looking at brand, marketability, $ drivers, etc.. Bills fans in the sports world are known in the elitist of the elite for passion and loyalty. It showed really well after they made the playoffs and people went to the airport. We will never be super high even if we win a super bowl because we arent Dallas or NYC for example. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyBatty is alive Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) Go figure, top 5 teams have won a third of all Supper Bowls every played. Look at the Bottom 10 teams, they won 6%. then you have market size impact. Look at the bottom, all small markets (sans Rams when they are in LA). Then you factor in the socioeconomic disparities between the have and have nots. Edited June 26, 2018 by RoyBatty is alive 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProcessAccepted Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 As someone who lives in Atlanta I can tell you that any list that ranks Falcons fans above the Bills fanbase is just some tool making up $#!+ 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyBatty is alive Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) I also think the Jets fans are much more rabid than are Gaint Fans. Giants fans are typically more affluent, white collar, very quiet, Jet fans are much more like Bills fans. Jets haven't won a super bowl in 50 years, giants have won 4 since then. List is a failure imo. Edited June 26, 2018 by RoyBatty is alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedboy7 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 All I read is how most of our players suck. I think 18 is too high. Time to whine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadingpain Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 1 hour ago, LABILLBACKER said: Bears 6 ? Colts 11? A more realistic assessment would be Bills between 6-11 Considering 99% of the human population has never heard of Emory University, who cares? Mellenies love their analytics.... Emory University is a well known, good school. 1 hour ago, wppete said: Hilarious..... Dolphins, Jets, Ravens Bears have better fans then he Bills??? Stop with the nonesense... I wouldn't necessarily find any of those outrageous except Miami. No way in hell, by any metric, Miami has better fans than Buffalo. The Dolphins are just not an important part of the culture down there; too much stuff to do on a Sunday afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulus Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, wppete said: Hilarious..... Dolphins, Jets, Ravens Bears have better fans then he Bills??? Stop with the nonesense... Better or richer? Too lazy to look at the methods behind this. Edited June 26, 2018 by Paulus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 1 hour ago, matter2003 said: Sure...most of these places would not even have a team left due to lack of fan support if they had to go through what we have been through over the last 17 years. It's really easy to go to games when the team is good. It's really easy to fill stadiums with 10K seats fewer than ours where there are in some cases 20+ times the population(Chicago). ...probably averaging 70,000 per home game and 48-50,000+ season ticket holder during the drought....those are perennial contender numbers IMO, NOT drought stricken.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Fixit Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Any fan list that includes Patriots fans in the top 20 deserves to be thrown in the trash. And when I say trash, I of course mean Detroit. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Emory University is the 7,465th best conductor of studies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logic Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Real joke of a list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 ..."social equity" at 22 is a compliment................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 21 minutes ago, Augie said: Emory University is the 7,465th best conductor of studies. and is located in a city entirely populated by dumb people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in Horseheads Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Putting KC at 30 is a joke too, thats why their stadium is among the loudest. Gives the Cowboys and Pats a few years in the basement and lets see how many show up. The Dolphins, lol they must have seen all the orange and aqua seats in a picture and thought they were fans dressed in the colors 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 3 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said: and is located in a city entirely populated by dumb people! YEAH!!! ...wait a minute.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klos63 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Bills fans are certainly #1 in their opinion of themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Augie said: YEAH!!! ...wait a minute.... ...well I'm not from Buffalo, but Roch-Cha-Cha is 70 miles east and I effed up my Chris Ivory thread with "ROLL" versus "ROLE"....so I'm not too brite either..... Edited June 26, 2018 by OldTimeAFLGuy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) 2 minutes ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said: ...well I'm not from Buffalo, but Roch-Cha-Cha is 70 miles east and I effed up my Chris Ivory thread with "ROLL" versus "ROLE"....so I'm not too brite either..... emory be located in Atlanta...where our esteemed poster Mr. @AugieAugie happens to reside...another reason I am glad my daughter chose not to go to Emory! Edited June 26, 2018 by plenzmd1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 1 minute ago, plenzmd1 said: emory be located in Atlanta...where our esteemed poster Mr. Augie happens to reside...another reason I am glad my daughter chose not to go to Emory! You don’t want someone you know to be there to bail her out on those random weekends? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Just now, Augie said: You don’t want someone you know to be there to bail her out on those random weekends? certainly not you!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) 6 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said: emory be located in Atlanta...where our esteemed poster Mr. @AugieAugie happens to reside...another reason I am glad my daughter chose not to go to Emory! ....LOL....sorry but my good bud Augie is the DEAN OF EVERYTHING....application rejected........ Edited June 26, 2018 by OldTimeAFLGuy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreggTX Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 16 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said: certainly not you!!!!! No, not me silly! I was thinking my wife could save a trip and bail me and your daughter out at the same time. ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Emory... is the 36th best University... in Atlanta ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEra Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 What a joke. You fail Emory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoPar_v2 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Eh. The study looks at some interesting metrics, but cooking them together does not in any way equate to measuring relative “fandom.” Of course the study’s author uses that term to get pub and recognition. If the study was titled “Average purchasing power amongst major American media markets” I doubt it would garner a second look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njbuff Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Isn’t Emory the same college that fired a professor for not going along with his brain dead liberal students? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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