So reports The NY Times using Facebook data.
The paper also concludes that
College football attracts the most fans in rural areas without professional teams. There is quite strong evidence in this data that devotion to college football increases the farther you get from large cities, especially large cities with professional sports teams like N.F.L. franchises.
I read somewhere that Bear Bryant made sure that professional sports above the farm team level would never be established in Alabama.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how he accomplished this, but he was God, wasn't he?