NFL team fans by US County

[mwill07]

link
a really interesting article and graphics, especially looking at areas changing throughout the playoffs.

...That said, there are people out there using all our Likes and comments and preferences to look at more interesting trends. People like Sean Taylor (who actually works for fb). For instance: according to Taylor, Facebook has roughly 35 million account holders in the U.S. alone who have Liked the page of one of the National Football Leagues's 32 teams. That, he says, represents "one of the most comprehensive samples of sports fanship ever collected." All told, more than 1 in 10 Americans have declared allegiance to one NFL team or another. When he plumbed the depths of Facebook's data wells he came up with a county-by-county map of NFL fandom in the United States:


The map lends itself well to analysis. In some cases, Taylor notes, "whole states and even entire regions of the country uniformly support a single team" (looking pretty orange there, Wyoming); in others, individual states are divided against themselves (see Florida). But things get really interesting come playoff season:


Nationwide allegiances shift dramatically when you remove non-playoff teams. By early January, for example, Bronco Country had more than doubled in size. Texas, once a nearly solid greyish-purple monster, was suddenly a heterogeneous mixture of red, purple, orange and grey.
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[Rohirrim]

I kind of feel bad for Houston. J'ville's even worse.

[bronco militia]

[Rohirrim]

So what's with the one, outlaw county in Colorado?

[bronco militia]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

So what's with the one, outlaw county in Colorado?

apparently one filled with illegal aliens errrr cowboys fan

FYI, thanks wyoming!

[Rohirrim]

It looks like Hinsdale County. Here's their website. http://hinsdalecountycolorado.us/
Let's hack 'em!






j/k

[Rohirrim]

Hinsdale County is the third least densely populated of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 843 at 2010 census.

Should be pretty easy to invade and conquer.

[El Guapo]

Yay for double posts!

[El Guapo]

No orange love over here in VA (even though there's a large contingent of us... hmm).

I read through this yesterday and the one that I thought was pretty interesting was the graphic that showed "Most Common Fan Friends." Meaning, as a Broncos fan who are we more than likely to associate with when it comes to fans from other teams. Here's the result:

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...18360501_n.png

[pricejj]

We must invade New Mexico to free our brothers in Mora County!

[bronco militia]

anyone notice that the Upper Peninsula now belongs to Wisconsin?

[Rohirrim]

And what's with Hawaii going with the Steelers? The Polamalu effect?

[bronco militia]

are those Bears fans or Giants fans in the NE corner of New Mexico? It's odd either way.

witness protection?

[That One Guy]

I spent way too long trying to figure out why there were so many Broncos fans in South Florida.

There needs to be more colors. Maybe some texturing of some sort.

[bronco militia]

Originally Posted by That One Guy

I spent way too long trying to figure out why there were so many Broncos fans in South Florida.

There needs to be more colors. Maybe some texturing of some sort.

yeah, I guess they didn't want to confuse them with 'all' the Jets fans

[Drunk Monkey]

Originally Posted by El Guapo

No orange love over here in VA (even though there's a large contingent of us... hmm).

I read through this yesterday and the one that I thought was pretty interesting was the graphic that showed "Most Common Fan Friends." Meaning, as a Broncos fan who are we more than likely to associate with when it comes to fans from other teams. Here's the result:

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...18360501_n.png

Wow, apparently we don't talk to anybody. We only show up on Oak and KC's top 5.

[CPA]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

I kind of feel bad for Houston. J'ville's even worse.

the Houston metro area has over 6 million people. They don't have it bad.

Now, look at the Jets compared to the Giants. That's sad.

[Blart]

Map of decent teams:



We own the West.

[bronco militia]

looks like America thought we were headed for a GB/Broncos superbowl after Wildcard weekend

[mwill07]

Originally Posted by Blart

Map of decent teams:



We own the West.

well, the fact of the matter is the Broncos are the only team permanently in the whole damn time-zone.

[Swedish Extrovert]

I'm suprised New Mexico is Cowboys country. Every time I go there, it seems mostly Broncos-oriented. Especially in Santa Fe - they have Broncos billboards and everything.

[broncocalijohn]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

So what's with the one, outlaw county in Colorado?

Probably ****ing Pueblo.

[Houshyamama]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Hinsdale County is the third least densely populated of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 843 at 2010 census.

Should be pretty easy to invade and conquer.

I think a drone strike or two is in order.

[Jetmeck]

Originally Posted by bronco militia

Heh, where is the freakin orange dot right there in the middle of KC and all the red.................who do I gotta call...............lol

[broncswin]

Originally Posted by broncocalijohn

Probably ****ing Pueblo.

Joking right?