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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Top 100 sports towns in America
Posted by Eric Snider on Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Men's Health magazine has a feature called MetroGrades, where the Top 100 cities are ranked in various
The July/August issue's MetroGrade is "America's Top Sports Towns."
Results in a bit, but first the criteria:
• How many people attend baseball, basketball and football games (college and pro) and those showing up at high school sporting events.
• NASCAR attendance and who's catching their sports on TV and the radio (source: SimplyMap).
• The number of people vying for tickets to any sport, who is buying the most team apparel, and how many people call themselves "foam-finger-waving fanatics" (source: Scarborough Sports Marketing).
Here are the Top 10:
1. Arlington, Tex. (home of the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers
2. Aurora, Col.
3. Colorado Springs, Col.
4. Indianapolis, Ind.
5. Columbus, Ohio
6. Jacksonville, Fla.
7. Fort Worth, Tex.
8. Dallas, Tex.
9. Charlotte N.C.
10. Anchorage, Ala.
Without further ado, here's how the Bay area rated:
• Tampa — 87
• St. Petersburg — 89
Now for the bottom 10:
91. Los Angeles
92. Richmond, Va.
93. Grand Rapids, Mich.
94. Tuscon, Ariz.
95. Sacramento, Calif.
96. Orlando
97. Hartford, Conn.
98. Fresno, Calif.
99. Newark, N.J.
100. Miami
I went onto the magazine's website and looked around for a link to the entire list, but I couldn't find one anywhere, even in the link provided menshealth.com/metrogrades. It looks like Men's Health hasn't posted the article yet.
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Bullshit ranking. Jacksonville came in at #8?!!? It's a shame Tampa/St. Pete was included at all, since even a simple juxtaposition against Jacksonville is an insult to this area. Jacksonville is a joke of town. Hell, it's not even the whole joke, it's just the punchline. And a lame punchline at that. Remember a few years ago when they had the Super Bowl there and the corporate swine that attend the game bitched that Jacksonville sucked? For once, the corporate swine were right! Seriously. It was so fucking bad the Jacksonville newspaper ripped the town! That's just sad, folks. So, enjoy the ranking everyone!
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