Bret Favre vs the Gophers..guess who wins?

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ketelmeister

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I continue to be amazed at how little anyone cares about the Insight Bowl here in Minnesota. I'm beginning to think that unless the Gophers would win the Big 10, the press wouldn't cover them. If you think the Hawks dominate the Iowa media, you should look up here.
 

capitalcityguy

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To be fair, look at ANY major metro that has professional sports teams. Those team rule the media and the public's attention and it only changes if the college team(s) happen to have an extraordinary year.
 

ISU_phoria

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Most major colleges aren't in large Cities, like Minnesota. They don't have to compete with Pro Sports in the exact same market like the Gophers do.

Northwestern is in the same boat and I'm guessing they don't get much coverage Chicago sports writers either.
 

Clark

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Most major colleges aren't in large Cities, like Minnesota. They don't have to compete with Pro Sports in the exact same market like the Gophers do.

Northwestern is in the same boat and I'm guessing they don't get much coverage Chicago sports writers either.

Northwestern isn't a very good example. Iowa has more fans in Chicago than Northwestern does.

Miami is a decent example. Big Dolphins town but will support the Canes when they're good.
 

capitalcityguy

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They averaged a little over 53 thousand a game so I wouldn't say nobody shows up.

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For the population (compared to say Ames/Des Moines) in the area, is that really a very good number? Also, I think this topic has more to do with willingness to travel, more than home game attendance.

Let's face it, we can't really honestly compare ourselves here in central Iowa to the fans sport's dollars that fight for people's attention in those of larger metro's. I'm mean seriously -- look at Minny. They have 3 top tier pro leagues going on right now (NFL, NHL, NBA) that are fighting for fan's attention and dollars. What is our comparison? The Iowa Energy?

Don't go there.
 
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Cyched

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To be fair, look at ANY major metro that has professional sports teams. Those team rule the media and the public's attention and it only changes if the college team(s) happen to have an extraordinary year.

Which is why as long as USC is in LA, we'll never see an NFL team there.
 

cybsball20

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If USC starts losing recruits to Skippy over at UCLA and both teams become mediocre then you will start to hear some serious cries for NFL in LA.
 

illinoiscyclone

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we talked about this in one of my poli sci classes. The NFL is waiting for a city to not cooperate so they can move a team to LA, but they will not move an expansion team there because they will lose LA as a bargaining chip in future negotiations with cities currently possessing teams.
 

capitalcityguy

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we talked about this in one of my poli sci classes. The NFL is waiting for a city to not cooperate so they can move a team to LA, but they will not move an expansion team there because they will lose LA as a bargaining chip in future negotiations with cities currently possessing teams.

Move an expansion team? I don't understand. Do you mean start a new expansion team in LA?