Are people in the Northeast, Midwest and South more passionate about sports/sports teams than people out West? (living in, area)

[costello_musicman]

Here are all the maps for professional sports. NFL looks to be the more East Coast oriented:

NBA:



NHL:



MLS:



As posted before, NFL:


MLB:

[Inkpoe]

Originally Posted by HenryAlan

But can Seattle support two teams? The Home Depot Center can only hold 80% of Seattle's capacity, so of course it won't average as many fans for each team, but the total number of fans attending MLS games in L.A. is higher, almost twice as high.

Well, Seattle doesn't have the populations power that LA does. If it did, I'm pretty sure we could support more than 2 mere teams.

If we were to use the numbers from this site, MLS Attendance You will notice... Seattle still (barely) beats LA combined average totals. Seattle's 36,173 vs LA's combined total of 36,011. The reality is... there's not an empty seat in Seattle, but evidently there's some in LA: it says that Chivas' is almost 55% full and Galaxy is almost 84% full... Seattle is almost 108% full.

[DynamoLA]

Originally Posted by Inkpoe

Well, Seattle doesn't have the populations power that LA does. If it did, I'm pretty sure we could support more than 2 mere teams.

If we were to use the numbers from this site, MLS Attendance You will notice... Seattle still (barely) beats LA combined average totals. Seattle's 36,173 vs LA's combined total of 36,011. The reality is... there's not an empty seat in Seattle, but evidently there's some in LA: it says that Chivas' is almost 55% full and Galaxy is almost 84% full... Seattle is almost 108% full.

MLS attendance is only one gauge of "soccer craziness".

"Sell out crowd of 90,000+ packs Rose Bowl for Mexico-New Zealand Exhibition"
Rose Bowl Packed For Mexico - New Zealand Soccer Match (http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/sports/rose-bowl-mexico-new-zealand-soccer-20100304 - broken link)

"89,134 watch L.A. Galaxy host Real Madrid"
LA Galaxy Hosts Soccer Stars Like Cristiano Ronaldo (And Girls Go Crazy) | NBC Los Angeles

And I'm sure there are other examples at both the Rose Bowl and Coliseum.

[btownboss4]

the Northeast is Also a mecca for Lacrosse, College lacrosse is pretty big here.

[Lamplight]

Originally Posted by costello_musicman

Here are all the maps for professional sports. NFL looks to be the more East Coast oriented:

NBA:

Shows how much I pay attention to sports: I wasn't aware the Supersonics were no longer in Seattle until I saw that map, got curious, and looked it up. And I live near Seattle!

[IAm_FloridaBorn]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

the Northeast is Also a mecca for Lacrosse, College lacrosse is pretty big here.

You want to throw college in , than the south has everyone beat.

[gwillyfromphilly]

Anyone shocked that there are only 2 MLS teams in the entire southern region and that they are both in the state of Texas.

[IAm_FloridaBorn]

Originally Posted by gwillyfromphilly

Anyone shocked that there are only 2 MLS teams in the entire southern region and that they are both in the state of Texas.

No, soccer is not that big down here. Not even in high school.

[btownboss4]

Originally Posted by IAm_FloridaBorn

You want to throw college in , than the south has everyone beat.

I went to College brcaue it has no national pro league.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

I went to College brcaue it has no national pro league.

Not national, but pro: Home | Major League Lacrosse

and this: NLL.com