If you've traveled around this great country of ours and thought, "Man, there are Cowboys and Patriots fans everywhere," guess what: you're absolutely right.
One of the more fascinating and borderline sinister aspects of social media is the way it reduces your most heartfelt dreams, desires, and fandoms to nothing more than data for a voracious Internet. But enough of privacy concerns. Let's check out where NFL fans reside!
Twitter has created an amazing heat map that tracks where NFL fans reside. You can see the entire map, you can zero in on a single team, or you can compare two different teams head-to-head. Certain teams (Cowboys, Patriots, Steelers) boast bandwagons that stretch from coast to coast. Others are, well, not so fortunate in the breadth of their fanbases.
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Digging deeper in the data, we can find some fascinating insights, like:
• Nobody much likes the Jaguars except in the immediate vicinity of Jacksonville and, for some reason, Holt County, Nebraska;
• The Cowboys have a broader fanbase than the Patriots, but fight the Steelers to almost a standstill;
• Denver pretty much owns the entire Mountain Time Zone, and Peyton Manning has probably thrown a touchdown to every single person residing within;
• The Dolphins boast a fairly robust fanbase in Montana, which makes zero sense except in the instance of wish fulfilment;
• The Giants absolutely own New York, but the farther you get from the stadium, the more popularity the Jets possess. Presumably because there's less likelihood of actually seeing the Jets play.
Have a go at the map yourself, and post your findings below. Enjoy.
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Jay Busbee is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact him at jay.busbee@yahoo.com or find him on Twitter.
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