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Old 01-07-2010, 10:11 AM
 
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Hello everyone. Seeing as Columbus has no NFL or MLB team who does the city root for? I would guess Cleveland or Cincinnati but I hear there are a lot or Steelers, Colts and Packers fans. Same for baseball. Just wondering.
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Old 01-07-2010, 07:08 PM
 
Location: Columbus OH
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Well, I guess I'm pretty biased being from Cincinnati and just here for law school..... but of course the Reds and Bengals. From what I've seen it seems like 40% Bengals, 40% Browns, and 20% Steelers. Most of the Steeler fans are just bandwagon people since they have had several good years recently. Baseball doesn't seem very popular here, not sure why.
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Old 01-07-2010, 07:26 PM
 
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pro team is Ohio St...nothing else matters...go bucks
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Old 01-08-2010, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Except Ohio State isn't a pro sports team

Go Browns!
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Old 01-08-2010, 11:43 AM
 
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Should be what City (Nati or Cleveland) you have more ties too. In my case that would be Cleveland
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Old 01-08-2010, 05:58 PM
 
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Cleveland for the NFL and NBA, I dont follow baseball
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Old 12-14-2012, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Pickerington, Ohio
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Except Ohio State isn't a pro sports team

Go Browns!
LOL ... that is how a lot of people (too many, IMO) around here think. I have a good number of friends who put college sports far above pro. I go the other way, personally. If it's not OSU or something that affects them, I don't really care.
My guess is Columbus is 45/40/15 Browns/Bengals/Steelers, and the 15 is mostly from eastern Ohio transplants and your everyday bandwagon jumpers. When I was growing up - I am 34 now - Columbus was probably closer to 55-60 percent Browns fans. In the 1990s, the Bengals were putrid and couldn't even capitalize when the Browns were gone. That said, the number of Browns fans from the days when they were Ohio's only NFL team is decreasing through attrition.
North and east of Columbus is almost all Browns, except for sizable pockets of Bengals fans in places like Newark and Zanesville. South and west is almost all Bengals, but for the time being the Browns remain a solid No. 2 in places like Springfield and Dayton.
It also helps that WBNS is fair between the Bengals and Browns most of the time. I don't envy them balancing the two local teams, not to mention Pittsburgh. WCMH was anything but when NBC had the AFC rights. Rarely did they show the Bengals over the Browns, and I was very happy when WBNS demonstrated it would be far more equitable.
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Old 12-14-2012, 07:10 PM
 
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I am a Bengals and Reds fan but have no ill will towards the Browns and the Indians. In fact if I had my way the Reds would play the Indians in the World Series and the Bengals and Browns would finish 1-2 in the AFC North. I also pull for the Cavs in the NBA.
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Old 12-15-2012, 03:59 AM
 
Location: Cincinnati (Norwood)
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^ You expressed what many of of us would like to see: one year we could all call an "Ohio Blowout Year," including another FB season where our OSU powerhouse in Columbus blows away the competition.
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Old 12-15-2012, 02:03 PM
 
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In the analog TV era, when Bengals games were blacked out within a certain distance of Cincinnati (Dayton is within the blackout radius), the Columbus station would always broadcast the Bengals game so that people who could point their antenna at Columbus could still watch the game. Even though the Bengals were bad during that time, some people may have formed an attachment to them.
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