This was posted in 2020. If this is about TV (ESPN, Fox Sports, etc.), then read the markets, and look who is NOT listed (any city in Louisana, Alabama, Mississippi, and so on). It is a new era in sports. No one gives a crap about blue-blood status.

1. Dallas, Texas - 2,563,320
2. Houston, Texas - 2,330,180
3. Atlanta, Georgia - 2,269,270
4. Tampa, Florida - 1,800,600
5. Miami, Florida - 1,642,220
6. Orlando, Florida - 1,492,640
7. St. Louis, Missouri - 1,099,590
8. Nashville, Tennessee - 983,180
9. San Antonio, Texas - 916,970
10. Kansas City, Missouri - 896,850

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Posted by ManBearSharkReb

Member since Dec 2018

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Posted on 3/7/24 at 2:44 pm to Tigerfan0318

Those aren’t metro area numbers. Mississippi Louisiana and Alabama also have the entire state obsessed with college football (that’s 13M people).

Missouri will always be pro sports first and 90% of the population have zero affiliation with Mizzou

This post was edited on 3/7/24 at 2:47 pm

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Posted by Basura Blanco

Member since Dec 2011

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Posted on 3/7/24 at 3:45 pm to Tigerfan0318

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If this is about TV (ESPN, Fox Sports, etc.), then read the markets, and look who is NOT listed (any city in Louisana, Alabama, Mississippi, and so on). It is a new era in sports. No one gives a crap about blue-blood status.

This is insanely stupid. We have a contract with ESPN. ESPN could give a shite about specific individual markets as all of their ad dollars are national. Those blue blood programs drive national viewership.

Being nationally relevant in Tuscaloosa, Gainesville, or Baton Rouge means a LOT more to ESPN than being irrelevant in KC.

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Posted by Daigeaux

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Posted on 3/7/24 at 10:19 pm to Tigerfan0318

You can’t be that stupid…

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