Comments on: Steelers vs. Cowboys: Which is America’s Football Team?

By: J. Preposterice

J. Preposterice — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:55:00 +0000

What a peculiar thing to say. Pittsburgh’s hardly, say, Detroit.

By: Kelly H

Kelly H — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:31:00 +0000

Yeah, I mean it’s kinda obvious that not everyone in a city will like the team on facebook — people under 13, people who don’t have facebook for other reasons, out of area supporters, people who don’t care enough about (that) sport to like any team.

By: JohnR

JohnR — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:19:00 +0000

By the time he got his first negative number he should have realised he’d done something stupid.

By: b.c.

b.c. — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:19:00 +0000

Completely agree. Not sure if you saw this (which was also from Facebook): http://i.imgur.com/DFo87po.png

By: Ro

Ro — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:00:00 +0000

It also took NY and Chicago out of the seemingly top 16, even though they were #6 and 7 previously, which certainly suggests that this analysis has a significant bias against large metro areas. Not sure how this proves Steelers are the winner in anything except meaningless movements of numbers?

By: Rishi

Rishi — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:38:00 +0000

I was going to suggest that too. Just about everyone who can has already left Pittsburgh so naturally there won’t be many fans left there.

By: Anitareimann

Anitareimann — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:12:00 +0000

I wonder… how do these cities compare as far as % of population who grew up there but moved away? I’d bet there are more people who left Pittsburgh than left some of these other cities….

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By: Guardian

Guardian — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:05:00 +0000

“1555 million Facebook users” is far more than half the US population, also clearly a typo.

By: j.s.

j.s. — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:37:00 +0000

very poorly done, this whole exercise is completely meaningless, except to reveal how useless sociologists are with data/analysis.

it doesn’t make sense to subtract the teams’ metro. areas’ populations as a way of removing teams’ local/regional support from the equation — some teams have no other competitors nearby, and thus have local fandom extending far beyond their metro area. in other cases, multiple teams share the same metro area.
and, not everyone has facebook, so, this post is a measure of the most popular teams on facebook, if anything…some teams may be more popular with people less likely to be on facebook (for whatever reason).