Anyone watching the Super Bowl?

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

There are plenty of glory hunters. It's weird because you can often separate them by age. Dallas were last very successful in the early to mid-'90s. So their glory hunting fams will be of a certain age. Same with Pittsburgh, Miami, Green Bay etc.

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The vast majority of NFL Fans that I see are actually from those areas.
Where I live though is very transient.
There are tons of Pittsburgh fans here mainly from there.
I guess they migrated in big numbers for work.

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Originally Posted by The Bloop

There's 11 stadiums in the world with capacities of over 100k. 8 of them are the homes of US College teams.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ms_by_capacity

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I just read that Michigan has the highest attendances in college football and averaged 109,000 per game last season. There was only 7 home games but still thats bonkers.

Is it cheap to get into these college games? I imagine it's.more of a day trip than just going down the city.

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Originally Posted by lardy

Is it cheap to get into these college games? I imagine it's.more of a day trip than just going down the city.

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https://www.statista.com/statistics/...football-team/

Just looked out of curiosity...

edit here's another site https://seatgeek.com/ncaa-football-tickets

How many college teams getting these big gates are represented in the big American cities

A crowd of say 70000 for a college game is impressive but not if a city the size of Birmingham or Glasgow or Liverpool only has 1 major college side

If college football is the main way that the Americans watch their sport then crowds that the likes of United , Spurs , Arsenal get but multiplied two or three times in say Detroit or Seattle would certainly be worthy of note

The point I am trying to make is if Dallas or Houston have college teams with big gates it should be no surprise as both those cities are absolutely enormous populations

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Originally Posted by Dembe

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...football-team/

Just looked out of curiosity...

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I hope that's season ticket prices

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Originally Posted by lardy

I hope that's season ticket prices

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edited my original post with this https://seatgeek.com/ncaa-football-tickets

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

How many college teams getting these big gates are represented in the big American cities

A crowd of say 70000 for a college game is impressive but not if a city the size of Birmingham or Glasgow or Liverpool only has 1 major college side

If college football is the main way that the Americans watch their sport then crowds that the likes of United , Spurs , Arsenal get but multiplied two or three times in say Detroit or Seattle would certainly be worthy of note

The point I am trying to make is if Dallas or Houston have college teams with big gates it should be no surprise as both those cities are absolutely enormous populations

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but you have no interest in this thread, right?

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

How many college teams getting these big gates are represented in the big American cities

A crowd of say 70000 for a college game is impressive but not if a city the size of Birmingham or Glasgow or Liverpool only has 1 major college side

If college football is the main way that the Americans watch their sport then crowds that the likes of United , Spurs , Arsenal get but multiplied two or three times in say Detroit or Seattle would certainly be worthy of note

The point I am trying to make is if Dallas or Houston have college teams with big gates it should be no surprise as both those cities are absolutely enormous populations

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Hmm not sure if they have 100,000 seater stadiums in rust belt towns, yeah they probably do.

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Originally Posted by Dembe

but you have no interest in this thread, right?

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I am not interested in the game I find it boring

But if the American college teams representing small communities get huge gates that's worthy of discussion

I went to a superbowl party with 4 others in Manchester.

Crawled in at 5am and hungover as hell ever since

20 mins highlights here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O17D...ab_channel=NFL

Commercial, capitalist shite

Sunday's Super Bowl drew 123 million viewers in the United States, making it the second most-watched US television broadcast in history, behind only the Apollo moon landing of 1969

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

There are plenty of glory hunters. It's weird because you can often separate them by age. Dallas were last very successful in the early to mid-'90s. So their glory hunting fams will be of a certain age. Same with Pittsburgh, Miami, Green Bay etc.

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Seems a bit odd. At least over here the same teams win year after year so you always have a chance of scratching your glory hunting itch but imagine being a Dallas or Pittsburgh fan living in Missouri at the moment.

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Originally Posted by J R Hartley

I just read that Michigan has the highest attendances in college football and averaged 109,000 per game last season. There was only 7 home games but still thats bonkers.

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I think the Buckeyes (Ohio State) have sold out every game since the 80s. Used to be 110k, now 102k. Their tribal rivalry with Michigan is off the scale. Columbus is midway between Cleveland & Cincinnati but all of the guys I worked with were Buckeye fanatics with only a passing interest in NFL.

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Originally Posted by life on mars

Commercial, capitalist shite

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I think any non-football fan could justifiably say the same about our game.

Messi did a Super Bowl ad for Michelob Light, which he's probably never tasted in his life.