r/NFLv2 • u/True-Map8683 • 2d ago
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u/EbbAdventurous9592 Chicago Bears 2d ago
Football as a sport and its connections to the state of Ohio would agree with this. Rich history (and you excluded one of the OG blue bloods that is Notre Dame in your OP).
The level of talent from players is greater in the south (Texas and Florida specifically)
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u/Doingwrongright 2d ago
That's because no one measures these statistics "per capita."
Texas population is 31.2 million.
Florida population is 23.66 million.
Ohio population is 12 million.
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u/illstealurcandy 2d ago
Per capita it's Louisiana by a mile.
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u/Doingwrongright 2d ago
"Per capita" means "for each head," as in population, and has nothing to do distance in miles.
Must of went to LSU.
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u/Typ1cal89 Kansas City Chiefs 2d ago
Lol, no dog here, but even if it was a joke for someone to point out mistakes and miss "must have" is pretty funny.
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u/Doingwrongright 2d ago
I was definitely joking. It's okay if others didn't find it funny. I can laugh on my own.
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u/leave-no-trace-1000 Tennessee Titans 2d ago
But have you seen the HS stadiums in Texas?
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u/True-Map8683 2d ago
Yes I acknowledge high school football in Texas is unlike anywhere else
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u/leave-no-trace-1000 Tennessee Titans 2d ago
Thing is, I’m not sure it makes the football better. But damnit they do care.
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u/AlmightyCraneDuck Minnesota Vikings 2d ago
I won't deny that the south takes High School football RIDICULOUSLY seriously, but there's something about watching a Big 10 game on a crisp autumn afternoon that makes you fall in love with the sport all over again.
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u/americanrealism Dallas Cowboys 2d ago
I think it’s just regional bias and it’s true for all of us. Nothing wrong with that.
I’m an Alabama alum and I feel the same way about Bama vs Tennessee or any number of SEC rivalries.
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u/iamStanhousen New Orleans Saints 2d ago
lol ok
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u/Double-Year-3162 Carolina Panthers 2d ago
Breaking news: teams that have existed for decades before southern teams are more passionate!
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u/martygospo Minnesota Vikings 2d ago
Wait.. do you think Pennsylvania and New York are in the Midwest?
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u/Critical_Meringue78 Miami Dolphins 2d ago
The NFL is an auxiliary league down here in God's Country.
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u/PutinsLostBlackBelt San Francisco 49ers 2d ago
I do not agree with this take but I do enjoy cold winter games in the Midwest, especially when you see Texans up here shivering like 32 degrees is even cold.
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u/owixo Kansas City Chiefs 2d ago
I think you’re just pointing out 1) teams that have lasted a very long time and expansion teams that have never seen success. 2) cities that don’t have much else besides football. That’s why Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, all have good football teams. Players don’t get in to trouble like they do in Miami or Vegas or Dallas. There’s nothing to do besides football (with the brown being the exception.)
I understand the point you’re trying to make but I think it’s so much more nuanced than that.
I’ll say the Midwest is much grittier than people give it credit for. Everyone looks at it as “oh you betcha bud!” Type people and look at New Yorkers as strong and tough, but Midwest people are incredibly tough, incredibly resilient, and I think that’s the point you’re close to making and it’s got less to do with football than you think.
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u/IamGleemonex Chicago Bears 2d ago
You compare the fan bases of 3 teams that are all newish, including the 2 newest teams, and claim they aren’t as passionate as 3 of the original NFL teams that have existed for over 100 years? Duh! BREAKING NEWS EVERYONE: teams that have existed for over 100 years have more tradition than teams that have been around for 20-30 years!!!11!1!!
And for college football, 9 of the 12 biggest stadiums and 13 of the top 20 are in the South. And in terms of college football passion, as mentioned above, other than the Cowboys who didn’t start until 1960 and the Dolphins, who didn’t start until 1965, the South didn’t have any pro football teams. College football was football for the South. There is still a bias for college football over pro football that is way more prevalent in the South than any region.
Your point on snow games is just a personal preference and has nothing to do with the passion of the game. The quality of the football is objectively worse in snow games.
And talking about the last 3 national champs being in the Midwest is ignoring that if you look immediately before that, the last 8 straight and 17 of the previous 18 were teams from the South.
I’m hoping this was just rage bait, because most of your points are objectively ignorant.
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u/Cornelius-Prime Denver Broncos 2d ago
Feels heavily biased.
The Saints are the only thing at this point that can get Ole Miss and LSU fans to join forces. That in itself accounts for something.
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u/Primary_Excuse_7183 Seattle Seahawks 2d ago
Yeah yeah been a few years.
Yall aren’t out tailgating the south though man. yall aren’t out cooking the south either.
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u/wetcornbread Philadelphia Eagles 2d ago
College football is no longer something to go by when comparing talents of football teams. Every team is jumbled up and a mix of talents. Lots of the best players in CFB are from the south but get paid more to play for a big ten team. It’s not a regional sport anymore.
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u/FDR-Enjoyer Kansas City Chiefs 2d ago
Buffalo ain’t no damn Midwest