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That seems to be a fairly accurate list considering winning teams. Not sure if the Phoenix Suns are more successful than the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Suns are very popular here but Diamondbacks have their world series title and a few other all star games. Suns:more popular, Diamondbacks:succesful, Cardinals:becoming highly popular
Miami Dolphins in Florida? You have got to be kidding me. I would say currently either Miami heat or the Tampa Bay Rays. Historically, its a toss up between FSU and UF football.
So, you're saying the Yankees aren't the #1 team in NY?
OOOPS! Sorry got cought up in all the Football Talk......Then Yes NY is a baseball town more than anything else....So Yanks are the team of the state.....Mets Dominate NJ
Suns are very popular here but Diamondbacks have their world series title and a few other all star games. Suns:more popular, Diamondbacks:succesful, Cardinals:becoming highly popular
Precisely what I thought. A team that wins the World series definitely has status but it seems the popularly of the Suns is greater than the Diamondbacks. The D-Back's 2001 victory over the Yankee's was an incredible feat for such a new team and shocked the MLB world.
MLB- Braves all the way. The farther inland you get, there's few fans of even the bandwagon teams.
NFL- Panthers/Steelers. The closer you get to Charlotte, the more Panthers fans you see, especially in the Upstate, but in Charleston, it's half and half Steelers/Panthers with a few Redskins, some Browns and a scattering of other teams.
NBA- None. Bobcats when you're 50 miles or closer to Charlotte. Here it's all bandwagon (Lakers, Heat, Celtics)
NHL- Hurricanes. You'd never see any Hurricanes clothes here, but after they won the Stanley Cup, their fan base grew. There's a few Thrashers and Sabres fans around.
College- I could write a whole page about it. Clemson and South Carolina are tied for #1 in our area, and are by far the most popular sports teams. Rock Hill has more Gamecocks, while Columbia is probably 75/25 *****. Greenville is probably 80/20 Clemson, but Spartanburg is almost split.
South Carolina baseball is probably the most popular team, as momentum for the whole program is way up. College baseball fills 10,000 seat stadiums here in South Carolina, with four or five competitive programs.
Depending on where you are in the state, the local FCS programs have big followings. The Citadel has a big one in Charleston, S.C. State probably owns most of the Orangeburg area, Coastal is important in Myrtle Beach, Furman is huge in the Greenville area, and others are growing, but none of them have a state-wide fan base. Only The Citadel has a state-wide radio network.
SC is a very interesting state to look at, being a border state between Atlanta and Charlotte's teams.
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