Sports in Miami

by craig on Jul 2, 2009 8:35 AM EDT in News and Rumors

Men's Health put together a list and ranked the best sports towns in the U.S.

This is paraphrased from a press release:

Men's Health ranked 100 major U.S. cities on "their sports-obsessed citizenry" in the July/August 2009 issue. The magazine tallied how many people attend baseball, basketball, and football games (college and pro), as well as who’s showing up at high-school sporting events. Men’s Health also factored in NASCAR attendance and who’s catching their sports on TV and radio from SimplyMap. In addition, Men’s Health looked at the number of people vying for tickets to any sport, who’s buying the most team apparel, and finally, how many people call themselves foam-finger-waving fanatics from Scarborough Sports Marketing.

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But no one fared worse than us.

No. 100? Dead last?

Miami, FL.

Of course.

Why am I not surprised?

Without a doubt, the fans in South Florida are the best to be found, anywhere. Unfortunately, there aren't that many of us. But with a little luck the ranks will be growing, it just takes time.

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True unfortunately

You’re right, the die hard south florida sports fans are the best to found anywhere. But there definitely aren’t enough of us.

by themusicelitist on Jul 2, 2009 9:33 AM EDT reply actions

jrhana and han the man

are going to have a field day with this

by jrsyeagle on Jul 2, 2009 9:41 AM EDT reply actions

Excuse Me?

Why would someone born and raised from Miami have a field day with this?
That makes a lot of sense. This just makes me sad.

By the way, you got something on your face. I think it’s some haterade. You should wipe that off dude.

Album coming soon

by Han The Man And The Band on Jul 2, 2009 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions

i wouldn't lump them together.

attendance is jrhana’s thing.

now if that survey ranked us as least likely to acquire Juan Pierre…

(I kid, I kid.)

by Fishcrazy on Jul 2, 2009 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions

Sorry, but I think this is B.S.

Surveys like these always start out with an agenda. You want to make a splash with your first and last ranking. A lot of people give the Miami area crap, so it’s an easy target. It’s fixing the facts to meet the conclusion.

High-school sports and NASCAR? What, like that’s big in Boston or New York, too? What about watching/attending soccer? Was that included, or was it easier to ignore the enormous Latin population’s favorite sport?

And don’t tell me this isn’t a football-mad town. Sure, they don’t always fill the stadium, but people are talking Dolphins year-round. And then there’s all the Canes, Gators and Seminoles here. But I guess they don’t care about college football, either.

Stupid survey. It’s as useless as those endlessly annoying “party school” surveys that clog up the news a few days a year.

by Fishcrazy on Jul 2, 2009 11:37 AM EDT reply actions

south florida sports

I think one of the biggest issues is the nodal nature of our urban geography. We like to pretend Miami is a metro of 5 million souls and one of the biggest in the country. Well, only kinda sorta. Miami has never been the main node of the metro like a Chicago, St. Louis or Cleveland has. Miami is just one of 3. Getting from Palm Beach to downtown Miami is a 70 mile jaunt. I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to do it regularly. Orlando to Tampa is not much further and nobody blames them for not attending Tampa events. It works great for football, but when it comes to the grind of the longer seasons in baseball, basketball and hockey, it’s just not going to work as well day in and day out.

Having said that, how many metro’s in the US can boast of having professional MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA teams? I count 14 (a lot less than 100) Add to that a major university sports program, NASCAR, Indy, 2 PGA events, Tennis’ “5th major”, Sailling, Fishing, a Rodeo…

Anyway, I’ve probably devoted more time and thought into this than Men’s Health originally did. Magazine’s love to put out these seemingly random lists now a days. It’s all just publicity. Forbes is even worse.

by brickell on Jul 2, 2009 11:38 AM EDT reply actions