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Dial back when you get some fans in your seats outside of Heat games. Marlins is embarrassment.
The Marlins are rebranding thru draft it will pick up. The Heat are world champions and favorites to 3peat. Our roster is upgraded since last season and Heat games sell out. The Clippers are imploding with CP3 injury.
Miami is the better sports city. We have football and hockey! ;P
The Marlins rebuilding thru draft was brilliant and Dolphins inked quality FA's off season. We are playoff bound!! We have hosted more superbowls than any other city. When the US has the Olympics again mark my words it will be in south beach.
Hate to break it to you, but the Dolphins missed the playoffs like 3 weeks ago.
Lol drinking the koolaid. Dial back when LA gets football. Miami is the football capital of the world. Friday night HS football games are packed. Worlds best basketball player had the choice to play for NY, Chicago, LA, Cleveland but he brought 2 championships to MIA.
Florida does have great high school football. But so does California - hence the FL-CA all star game at the end of the year.
As far as the NFL goes - in the right situation football would do great here. For some reason there is this myth that the Raiders and Rams left because of poor attendance and fan support, when it was really due to inappropriate stadium situations and
And why won't the NFL come back to LA? Oh yeah because we don't want to be hijacked and foot the bill for a stadium. Goodell would rather move to the UK over Los Angeles and it is 100 percent because he does not like the financials that AEG was demanding to build Farmer's Field and bring a team to the city. The NFL certainly does not "need" Los Angeles, but Los Angeles also does not "need" the NFL.
Florida does have great high school football. But so does California - hence the FL-CA all star game at the end of the year.
As far as the NFL goes - in the right situation football would do great here. For some reason there is this myth that the Raiders and Rams left because of poor attendance and fan support, when it was really due to inappropriate stadium situations and
And why won't the NFL come back to LA? Oh yeah because we don't want to be hijacked and foot the bill for a stadium. Goodell would rather move to the UK over Los Angeles and it is 100 percent because he does not like the financials that AEG was demanding to build Farmer's Field and bring a team to the city. The NFL certainly does not "need" Los Angeles, but Los Angeles also does not "need" the NFL.
Very true. It's a situation that pretty much has to align itself perfectly.
It could take 1, 5, 10 years, but neither there really is no urgency for LA nor the NFL. Neither want to foot the bill. The only real hope is for some wealthy individual to be willing to purchase an NFL team and build everything with their own money or a current NFL owner to want to move here, pay the relocation fee and build their own stadium with their own money.
Both scenarios are possible, but who knows how long either will take to materialize.
The Marlins are rebranding thru draft it will pick up. The Heat are world champions and favorites to 3peat. Our roster is upgraded since last season and Heat games sell out. The Clippers are imploding with CP3 injury.
Whatever. I don't remember the Marlins ever having any fans. Only team that seems to have any fan base is the Heat.
How can you not sell out 8 games a year for the NFL? The worst attendance in the league, and you're the "Football Captial of the World?" Really? Yeah...
Whatever. I don't remember the Marlins ever having any fans. Only team that seems to have any fan base is the Heat.
How can you not sell out 8 games a year for the NFL? The worst attendance in the league, and you're the "Football Captial of the World?" Really? Yeah...
Talent wise, as in NFL future talent no doubt Southeast Florida is the football capital. We also have one of the most successful colleges teams with UM.
As for Dolphins attendance percentage wise the Dolphins were last with 89% of seats filled over the 8 games. Total people attending though Dolphins were in 20th. Attendance is not a huge issue for any NFL team really. Especially with TV money. Except for the Raiders, they don't even use the full stadium. Dolphins have a fan base, it is been weaker than before because of a decade of failure and expensive seats. You can tell by the amount of Dolphins fans at opposing teams stadiums during away games that there really are a lot of Dolphins fans out there, and a ton internationally too mostly in the UK. Dolphins have been around since the late 1960s.
Marlins don't have a good fan base though that is 100% correct. Miami used to be a football town, they dominated the papers, news and sports radio. Since 2005 and Shaq/Wade in Miami the Heat have taken over as the #1 sport in town for very obvious reasons. It started slowly in the late 90s but since Wade the Heat shred any other Miami team pro or college. And the Heat fan base is pretty good one and IMO will remain a good one even 10-15 years from now because of the legacy and tradition they have built up in a fairly short period of time.
Talent wise, as in NFL future talent no doubt Southeast Florida is the football capital. We also have one of the most successful colleges teams with UM.
As for Dolphins attendance percentage wise the Dolphins were last with 89% of seats filled over the 8 games. Total people attending though Dolphins were in 20th. Attendance is not a huge issue for any NFL team really. Especially with TV money. Except for the Raiders, they don't even use the full stadium. Dolphins have a fan base, it is been weaker than before because of a decade of failure and expensive seats. You can tell by the amount of Dolphins fans at opposing teams stadiums during away games that there really are a lot of Dolphins fans out there, and a ton internationally too mostly in the UK. Dolphins have been around since the late 1960s.
Marlins don't have a good fan base though that is 100% correct. Miami used to be a football town, they dominated the papers, news and sports radio. Since 2005 and Shaq/Wade in Miami the Heat have taken over as the #1 sport in town for very obvious reasons. It started slowly in the late 90s but since Wade the Heat shred any other Miami team pro or college. And the Heat fan base is pretty good one and IMO will remain a good one even 10-15 years from now because of the legacy and tradition they have built up in a fairly short period of time.
No I think it is pretty clear that it is split well between FL, CA and TX.
Ok. You're 30th if you go by percentage. 85% for 2013, according to ESPN. That's nothing to be brag about or name yourself the football capital of the world. 15% may not seem like much on paper, but it shows on the TV with all the missing fans in the seats.
And it seems the Miami media is worried about the attendance. They're also worried about U of Miami Football attendance.
Dodgers and Angels attendance are above Yankees by avg and %. Both are top 7. A lot of the big name players go to them more often than Miami too.
Marlins are in bottom 3 in both.
You're a better sports town....how exactly???????? Lebron doesn't make you a better sports town. And there's no guarantee he's gonna stay either.
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