{"id":44932,"date":"2014-09-05T16:36:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T22:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/figuring-far-flung-football-fandom-from-facebook-favorites.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:31:51","slug":"figuring-far-flung-football-fandom-from-facebook-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/figuring-far-flung-football-fandom-from-facebook-favorites.html","title":{"rendered":"Figuring Far-Flung Football Fandom from Facebook Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting look, county by county, at what National Football League team&#39;s page is most Liked via Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>What I find fascinating are the edge cases.  Why is the border between Broncos and Seahawks where it is (and why are there clusters of Cowboys fans up there? And Packers?). Does LA really have an affinity for the long-absent Raiders, or is it simply that they don&#39;t have any alternatives (yet).  Why does the Upper Peninsula split between the Lions and the Packers, rather than being one or the other?  And pity poor Kentucky, divided between four different teams (none of them their own) and a sprinkling of others, or Florida, also with four (though none of them from Atlanta) and others besides.<\/p>\n<p>Nice use of social media data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/09\/the-geography-of-nfl-fandom\/379729'><br \/>\n<img style='display:block;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ooGjIYL7-qMAIIyxaUJZetfjhjPEY3otClidnEvaMXhZssX3mK_zXYo9n9VNHDwZnR2FtVNSn33hsi4iTRxX6UtbAMhtHnijn0rMIja5bdhY-C_zNXdifVx_aKdNPUpnrzOccHysjx8zepFCZnp7HMUFTDeTAfbl3R-aRjBE82Zex5-H=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\nThe Geography of NFL Fandom<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nThe Patriots really do rule New England, and the Cowboys might just be America&#8217;s team. But after that, things get complicated.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/X292PsLYg2a'>View on Google+<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting look, county by county, at what National Football League team&#39;s page is most Liked via Facebook. What I find fascinating are the edge cases. Why is the border between Broncos and Seahawks where it is (and why are there clusters of Cowboys fans up there? And Packers?). Does LA really have an affinity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/figuring-far-flung-football-fandom-from-facebook-favorites.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Figuring Far-Flung Football Fandom from Facebook Favorites&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2709,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/13\/a_no_win_situat.html","url_meta":{"origin":44932,"position":0},"title":"A no-win situation","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-May-02 12:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've never had much sympathy for Native American groups that complain about sports teams that use various \"Indian\" themes for their team names. 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