Most Popular Sports Teams in Your Area

[RINO Tom]

We've done topics on people's FAVORITE sports teams, but I have always been interested in fan base geography.  What is the breakdown of fan loyalties where you live?  Obviously, just use your best guess based on what you see.  Include any and all sports.  Here's mine for Iowa City:

MLB: 40% Cubs, 20% Cardinals, 10% Twins, 30% Other
NFL: 30% Bears, 30% Packers, 20% Vikings, 20% Other
NCAAF: 85% Iowa, 5% Iowa State, 10% Other

For Peoria, I'd guess:

MLB: 40% Cubs, 30% Cardinals, 10% White Sox, 20% Other
NFL: 75% Bears, 25% Other
NCAAF: 65% Illini, 10% Notre Dame, 10% Randmo Big Ten Schools, 15% Other

[RINO Tom]

Curious: for those who leave out college sports, are college sports just not popular at all in your area?  Or are you just not sure on the numbers?

Thanks for the responses so far!

[RINO Tom]

Curious: for those who leave out college sports, are college sports just not popular at all in your area?  Or are you just not sure on the numbers?

Thanks for the responses so far!

The American fetish with sports in school is amazing for an European. I once visited an American high school (it was one of the wealthiest towns in the US though, so that probably explains it) and the sports fields were insane. My Dutch high school had 3 ugly gyms and for outdoors PE classes we used the local football field (with carcinogenic rubber granulate, love you too school ). Dutch schools still beat American schools.

My dad has a very good friend who is Slovakian, and he always comments on how strange it is to Europeans, haha.  What's more is that, IMO, some of the craziest individual fan bases in American sports are definitely college ones.  The passion of, say, Kentucky basketball fans or Nebraska football fans is truly astounding.