Do a google news search under the word "Alabama".
As of a few minutes ago this Thursday afternoon, eight of the first ten entries are sports stories. Is that because we have a team with the same name as the state, or are we so sports obsessed that it's the majority of what gets written about us in the media?
As a test, I did the same with Tennessee: 7 of 10 were sports stories.
Mississippi: 5 of 10.
Florida: 8 of 10.
...and I held off on Georgia, presuming the flooding would skew the results, which were: 5 of 10. Three of the five non-sports stories were flood-related.
Sports-obsessed? You're certainly right.
ReplyDeleteThe most important news is always about the football coaches. They are even more important than the players.
I don't know that it's just us, I tried it with a state outside of the South, Arizona, and got 7 out of 10
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