Are sports team allegiances in your city/area racially, culturally, geographically or generationally divided ?

[Soldier]

I notice that some team fanbases clearly skew younger and blacker, or older and whiter. Some teams have more Hispanic or Asian fans per capita. Some teams probably have a disproportionate amount of female fans. Some teams bring all the ethnicities/races (white, black, asian etc) and all the generations together (boomers to gen Z)

Some teams somehow find a way to attract defined niche populations(the hipster and hippie crowds for example)




Does sports fandom pretty much comes down to demographics ? Different teams have different demographics and customers

Urban vs suburban
City vs country
blue collar vs white collar
Yuppies vs working class
Democrats vs republicans
Immigrants vs born and raised natives
Wealthy vs poor

 

[⠀X ⠀]

I feel like in NYC, Mets fans are mostly white.

 

[mastermind]

I feel like in NYC, Mets fans are mostly white.

Queens and Bronx

In DC area, Commanders are the team for everyone.

Nationals and Capitals are the wealthy suburbs teams.

Wizards are DC’s team

 

[Professor K.]

My grandpa was a Sox fan from Southside Chicago and told me any nikka who was a Cubs fan is

 

[NZA]

i have always heard chicago and new york baseball break down racially. gotta have 2 teams in the same market for this to happen. not too common at the pro level. in college, schools like duke seem to be popular with the upper classes and primarily recruit athletes who are at least middle class.

 

[GunRanger]

Islanders fans are

 

[Soldier]

Islanders fans are

The only other sports team they like is the Mets

Or they support the islanders, the mets and one of the two local NFL teams( jets or giants)

They don’t support either the Knicks and nets

I wonder why

 

[Soldier]

Queens and Bronx

In DC area, Commanders are the team for everyone.

Nationals and Capitals are the wealthy suburbs teams.

Wizards are DC’s team

Translation:

Commanders = white, black, poor, rich, middle class ´, wealthy, blue collar, white collar, old, young, immigrant, native, casual, diehard, conservative, liberal, urban, rural etc. NFL Football is the passion that unites everyone from all walks of life. All roads lead to NFL fandom.

Capitals/ nationals = transplanted white folks who didn’t have a baseball or hockey team of their own but remained loyal to their NFL team, whitewashed suburban minorities, nerds, suburb/exurb cacs in general

Wizards-= mix of local American black folks, African immigrants (Ethiopian, Nigerian, Somali, etc) both white and black urban yuppies, young college kids, urban hipsters, white liberals, Middle Eastern/Salvadoran/Mexican/Asian/Chinese immigrants, multigenerational DC folks before gentrification and transplant invasion (so basically the people who lived in Washington D.C when it was accurately called « chocolate city »)

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Islanders fans are

Not just Islanders. All hockey fans are

 

[Duke Dixon]

I live in Central PA. I think by race Eagles and Steeler fans are about equal in all but one demographic. Women are mostly fans of the Steelers and not the Eagles. Theres more Steeler fans aswell.

 

[Soldier]

Not just Islanders. All hockey fans are

I definitely fukk With hockey because it’s honestly a exciting sport to watch but yeah a lot of white American hockey fans seem to be towards the NBA. They are salty and jealous because the NBA greatly overshadows the NHL. They resent the cultural dominance and popularity of the nba. Many of them are stupid and delusional enough to believe that the nhl would be more popular if the nba didn’t exist. If such a reality existed, Hockey would still struggle to gain market share in America because football and baseball would still be much bigger and revelant than hockey.

I feel like in NYC, Mets fans are mostly white.

The 3 NHL teams located in the NYC area tell you otherwise . They easily Have the whitest fanbases per capita, per percentage and by aggregate (total numbers) in the city.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

I live in Central PA. I think by race Eagles and Steeler fans are about equal in all but one demographic. Women are mostly fans of the Steelers and not the Eagles. Theres more Steeler fans aswell.

thats actually pretty interesting, im curious why

 

[Soldier]

thats actually pretty interesting, im curious why

Massively Popular sports teams like the Steelers have obviously plenty of female fans. Plenty of women out there who are cowboys fans, Knicks fans, lakers fans , Yankees fans etc

 

[boskey]

Queens and Bronx

In DC area, Commanders are the team for everyone.

Nationals and Capitals are the wealthy suburbs teams.

Wizards are DC’s team

I would add there are parts of Maryland like Anne Arundel and Howard County where the older folks are Skins/Commanders fans and the younger are Ravens fans

 

[mastermind]

I would add there are parts of Maryland like Anne Arundel and Howard County where the older folks are Skins/Commanders fans and the younger are Ravens fans

I never consider those areas as DC area, but you are right.