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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4626826" data-attributes="member: 66082">The video&#039;s opinion is wrongheaded and likely factually wrong, but most importantly this video is an example of thinking &quot;most nfl fans&quot; have certain political views.&nbsp; Instead of the reality that nfl fans have all sorts of political views and come from all sorts of backgrounds.&nbsp; In terms of &quot;ratings&quot;, we shall see over the course of the season.fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-every-nfl-teams-fans-lean-politicallyPro football is unique in that its fandom stretches across partisan lines.&nbsp; Using google trends to measure fan interest for a given media market in the US, we calculated the percentage of search traffic over the previous fiver years for each region related to each of the major professional sports leagues(NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL) as well as college football, college basketball, and NASCAR.&nbsp; We then compared Trump&#039;s vote share in last year&#039;s presidential election in each market.&nbsp; Among sports leagues we considered, the NFL had the most search traffic and the least partisan fan base.&nbsp; There is basically no correlation between how Democratic or Republican an area is and how often its residents made NFL related searches.morningconsult.com/2020/09/10/sports-fan-base-demographic-data</blockquote>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4626826, member: 66082"] The video's opinion is wrongheaded and likely factually wrong, but most importantly this video is an example of thinking "most nfl fans" have certain political views. Instead of the reality that nfl fans have all sorts of political views and come from all sorts of backgrounds. In terms of "ratings", we shall see over the course of the season. fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-every-nfl-teams-fans-lean-politically Pro football is unique in that its fandom stretches across partisan lines. Using google trends to measure fan interest for a given media market in the US, we calculated the percentage of search traffic over the previous fiver years for each region related to each of the major professional sports leagues(NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL) as well as college football, college basketball, and NASCAR. We then compared Trump's vote share in last year's presidential election in each market. Among sports leagues we considered, the NFL had the most search traffic and the least partisan fan base. There is basically no correlation between how Democratic or Republican an area is and how often its residents made NFL related searches. morningconsult.com/2020/09/10/sports-fan-base-demographic-data [/QUOTE]

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