Game Attendance by Metro-Area

[njstang12]

Just thought you might be interested in this article:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-a ... ties/3324/

Speaks the size of the metropolitan area and fan attendance at football games. Notice where Dallas is on this list.

[Paladin]

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[Stallion]

I think Pro Football and College Football are two separate animals so using both to analyze fandom SKEWS the analysis(take that Nate Silver!!!). I think in college football there is no other state where in a random 2 week period (counting 1 home game for each school)-universities in that state will attract about 460,000 coillege fans to Division 1A games like they do in Texas(UT, A&M, Tech, Baylor, TCU, SMU, UH, UTEP, Rice, North Texas). NFL fans these days are a corporate enterprise. Pretty much the same in New York or Seattle or Phoenix or Dallas-its a weekly entertainment show of paid mercenaries paid for by corporate interests. College Football fans are actually fans because they actually identify with the university they are associated with. . In any such period there are many more college football fans attending games than pro football fans attending games in Texas-but you'd never know it from the media.

[Digetydog]

I think Pro Football and College Football are two separate animals so using both to analyze fandom SKEWS the analysis(take that Nate Silver!!!). I think in college football there is no other state where in a random 2 week period (counting 1 home game for each school)-universities in that state will attract about 460,000 coillege fans to Division 1A games like they do in Texas(UT, A&M, Tech, Baylor, TCU, SMU, UH, UTEP, Rice, North Texas). NFL fans these days are a corporate enterprise. Pretty much the same in New York or Seattle or Phoenix or Dallas-its a weekly entertainment show of paid mercenaries paid for by corporate interests. College Football fans are actually fans because they actually identify with the university they are associated with. . In any such period there are many more college football fans attending games than pro football fans attending games in Texas-but you'd never know it from the media.

if you count the two pro teams, the college teams, and high school games, I wonder what the average weekly attendance is for Texas. 1million?

[CalallenStang]

I think Pro Football and College Football are two separate animals so using both to analyze fandom SKEWS the analysis(take that Nate Silver!!!). I think in college football there is no other state where in a random 2 week period (counting 1 home game for each school)-universities in that state will attract about 460,000 coillege fans to Division 1A games like they do in Texas(UT, A&M, Tech, Baylor, TCU, SMU, UH, UTEP, Rice, North Texas). NFL fans these days are a corporate enterprise. Pretty much the same in New York or Seattle or Phoenix or Dallas-its a weekly entertainment show of paid mercenaries paid for by corporate interests. College Football fans are actually fans because they actually identify with the university they are associated with. . In any such period there are many more college football fans attending games than pro football fans attending games in Texas-but you'd never know it from the media.

if you count the two pro teams, the college teams, and high school games, I wonder what the average weekly attendance is for Texas. 1million?

High school alone is easily over 1 million. Probably closer to 2 million

[Stallion]

they had 48,000 for 5A Championship alone

[CalallenStang]

they had 48,000 for 5A Championship alone

On an average week of football this year (week , there were 641 high school football games (http://www.caller.com/news/2012/oct/27/ ... es-week-8/)

If those games average only 3,000 in attendance (obviously large schools will have more in attendance than small schools and public schools will have more in attendance than private schools), you get an attendance for that week of 1,923,000