What is with the Green Bay Packers foothold in Minnesota Vikings territory? (Minneapolis: renting, crime)

[Tyryztoll]

Originally Posted by CCbaxter

because the packers are always sold out so they have a better chance of seeing a game here.

Sorry, don't quite understand this contention. Do you mean they have a better chance of seeing a Vikings game here - or the Packers playing the Vikings here? If you're referring to TV viewership the Packers being continually sold out would ensure they'd be on TV across the board in Wisconsin for every home game.

[WoodburyWoody]

Originally Posted by Citykid3785

My guess is it's Threefold:

1) given the metro touches WI, and the prevalence of people from WI living in the metro, we naturally have a lot of their fans
2) the Packers sort of own the market on being an underdog (a city of 100K people being on a waiting list for games, playing out in the snow, etc.) I think there are a lot of people, particularly in rural MN that can relate to this "underdog, pride of the tundra" type of mantra
3) They have a history of winning, moreso than the Vikes

It has been 40+ years since the Vikings have played in a Super Bowl. In the past 25 years, the Packers have won two and appeared in a third.

Fans follow teams for a variety of reasons. Since the '70s, it was much easier in the days of cable, internet and ESPN and now satellite TV to follow any team you want from any location in the world.

[MovingtotheMidwest]

I would argue that the Packers are actually "America's Team". It's pretty remarkable since most of their fans have probably never been to Green Bay. It's just a history of winning and the generational allegiances.

[TwinsFan1975]

Originally Posted by MovingtotheMidwest

I would argue that the Packers are actually "America's Team". It's pretty remarkable since most of their fans have probably never been to Green Bay. It's just a history of winning and the generational allegiances.

More likely that they've all left Wisconsin. After all, why would anyone stay?

[Tyryztoll]

Originally Posted by twinsfan1975

more likely that they've all left wisconsin. After all, why would anyone stay?

:d:d:d

[Ghengis]

pretty lame attempt at trolling considering Michigan's UP is 100% packer fans...

but, go lions

[CCbaxter]

Originally Posted by Tyryztoll

Sorry, don't quite understand this contention. Do you mean they have a better chance of seeing a Vikings game here - or the Packers playing the Vikings here? If you're referring to TV viewership the Packers being continually sold out would ensure they'd be on TV across the board in Wisconsin for every home game.

Yes, i mean when the packers are here. Sellout has nothing to do with TV, it has to do with DMA, a TV term.
If you look at a DMA map of Minneapolis, you'll see a bunch of W WI counties in it. They will see vikings games on TV.

[WoodburyWoody]

Originally Posted by CCbaxter

Yes, i mean when the packers are here. Sellout has nothing to do with TV, it has to do with DMA, a TV term.
If you look at a DMA map of Minneapolis, you'll see a bunch of W WI counties in it. They will see vikings games on TV.

For OTA/cable television, yup.

The MSP market includes seven Wisconsin counties (those in Western Wisconsin, as CC points out). And some using antennas for OTA in Wisconsin counties adjoining those on the eastern edge of the MSP DMA will also be able to pick up the signal from MSP stations (as do folks in parts of southern Minnesota, which is part of the Mason City-Albert Lea- Rochester DMA). For those using cable, it pretty much ends at the county line.

However, I know someone in Hudson, WI, who was able to talk Dish (or Direct) into feeding his service with Green Bay DMA stations instead of MSP DMA stations. He claims he did not grease any palms, but played the "I am old and moved here from Green Bay and keeping up with "home" will help my isolation" game. Never considered that option, but it - technically - can be done.

But with so many people and bars/restaurants getting any game they want - legally or illegally - via satellite and the internet, those who really want to see the Packers (or the Rams or the Chiefs or the Bea ... strike that, no one wants to watch the Bears) can do it easily.

[CCbaxter]

Anyone watching the Chargers game? The place is lousy with cheeseheads.

[Enean]

Originally Posted by CCbaxter

Anyone watching the Chargers game? The place is lousy with cheeseheads.

I sat next to some Charger fans in Green Bay within the last few years, and I have to say, they were awed to be at Lambeau Field....they didn't care much about the game, they just wanted to see a game at Lambeau. I bet you don't get too much of that in Minneapolis. They asked us to take pictures of them, so they could show their friends back in California, that they had been at Lambeau.

I went to a Viking game years ago in Minneapolis...we were with another couple, their two children, and our two children. The Viking fans behind us waited to let us go ahead of them as we were leaving our seats and the game was over, but then, they cut in front of our children (who were young at the time), and said they had let us go, but that was it. SO, in downtown Minneapolis, they tried to cut us off from our young children. They said they could just get out on their own, and we could wait for them somewhere where they could see us. Needless to say, that left quite an impression.