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February 22, 2011
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Where are the Jets?
posted by lil_brown_bat at 10:32 AM on February 22, 2011
Queens is too small to show up
posted by kokaku at 10:36 AM on February 22, 2011
The Jets are that oval to the lower right of the Giants.
I think the Jaguars have the smallest population area on that map. Nice of them to give us Lake City and perhaps Tallahassee.
posted by rcade at 10:59 AM on February 22, 2011
New ballpark food: Walking spaghetti.
posted by rcade at 11:03 AM on February 22, 2011
That looks like it'll go nicely with a Declaration of Indigestion (from last year)
posted by apoch at 11:21 AM on February 22, 2011
Meat salad. hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm
posted by graymatters at 12:25 PM on February 22, 2011
I think the Jaguars have the smallest population area on that map.
The Ravens have an awfully small area as well. I had to get really close to the monitor to see them at all.
posted by bperk at 12:37 PM on February 22, 2011
The Packers have tons of fans across the entire upper peninsula and many parts of the northern lower peninsula. Probably comes from being slightly more successful than the Lions.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 01:08 PM on February 22, 2011
I reject how Ohio is divided up. I think the Steelers encroach into Browns/Bengals territory more than what they show on the map.
posted by steelergirl at 01:54 PM on February 22, 2011
Well, the map is a bit of a simplification. The Steelers' bandwagon sort of chugs all over the country, in my experience. However, most people I know from Columbus do cheer for the Steelers.
posted by tahoemoj at 02:00 PM on February 22, 2011
Walking spaghetti.
I found a container in the back of the refrigerator the other day. When I opened it, it proved to be walking spaghetti, and it headed straight for the disposal. I really do have to clean out the leftovers more often.
posted by Howard_T at 02:20 PM on February 22, 2011
The Packers have tons of fans across the entire upper peninsula and many parts of the northern lower peninsula. Probably comes from being slightly more successful than the Lions.
Eh, I think the Michigan map is pretty dang accurate. Growing up in the northern lower peninsula, my mom was the only Packer fan I knew and that was only because she's from da Keweenaw, hey. The western UP will always be Packer country because the broadcast TV stations and the newspapers that they get are all out of Wisconsin. The eastern UP will bandwagon the Packers until the Lions start becoming relevant, then I think that the Lions banners will go back up in the bars.
As for North Carolina, I would dip the Redskins down a bit south of Virginia. There are still lots of die-hard RacistName fans here in Raleigh.
posted by NoMich at 03:31 PM on February 22, 2011
I'd like to see what they had for AK and HI, but they only did the 48 contiguous.
posted by boredom_08 at 04:57 PM on February 22, 2011
Neat map. Not going to over-analyze it as I'm sure most lines would be jagged as opposed to straight, however, is NY really anywhere close to accurate?
I would think Buffalo would have a much smaller outline, with the Giants and Jets have a larger foot print. Just based on recent performance. Or, is it that out state NY'ers hate the teams from the NYC area?
posted by dviking at 07:38 PM on February 22, 2011
What you say is true, moj. But I would give the southeast portion of Ohio to the Steelers since they are going by fan concentration.
Buffalo has that many loyal fans? Anyone?
posted by steelergirl at 07:40 PM on February 22, 2011
I would think Buffalo would have a much smaller outline, with the Giants and Jets have a larger foot print.
Know someone from upper state New York and what I have heard her say repeatedly is that New Yorkers outside of the city have a tendency to hate anything in or associated with the city. Might be part of the explanation.
posted by graymatters at 07:46 PM on February 22, 2011
That map reminds me of this one. What, the Tigers don't invade southern Ontario...not ever Windsor?
posted by MeatSaber at 08:11 PM on February 22, 2011
It's "upstate" New York. As someone from the region, I think "hate" is overstating the case, but there is something of an underdog mentality/"'New York' does not mean 'New York City'" attitude that might cause people to drift toward the Bills (yeah, I said it). Nobody was really an NFL fan at home when I was growing up, but insofar as we followed any team, it was the Giants. It was an extremely weak affiliation, though.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:55 AM on February 23, 2011
US Map of NFL Fandom.