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There is either a contradiction in your life that you haven't dealt with, or you are in a serious state of self loathing. I'm a Bills fan... I understand.
Would Utah support a NFL team?
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There is either a contradiction in your life that you haven't dealt with, or you are in a serious state of self loathing. I'm a Bills fan... I understand.
fatchipper
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We shall call our team the Utah Pioneers and our dome stadium will be called The Covered Wagon.
fatchipper
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I don't think there would be a problem at all filling up a 70,000 seat stadium 8 times a year, no matter what day the games are played on. I bet the 2 preseason games would get 80-90% capacity as well.
Too bad it's racist.
Gyp Rosetti
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I like where your head's at.
P.S.--Who's footing the bill for this stadium project? All you wealthy Utahrns?
gregbroncs
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No this state would not support it. Not enough people to begin with and 50% of them won't go on Sunday.
I would go when they played the Broncos. I would not vote for them to win.
I would go when they played the Broncos. I would not vote for them to win.
Better than many larger markets. https://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=l_att&lid=112&sid=l112
SL set an attendance record when they opened the park in 1994, & led the Pacific Coast League for several years in a row.
A quick google search showed the Bees Sunday attendance of about 4200 compared to 7133 season average. Football wouldn't have the same issue.
Gyp Rosetti
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Yeah, 'cause there's nothing else to do in the state.
gregbroncs
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But for how long? Maybe for 1 year until the newness wears off. Then They would struggle more and more if the team struggled and after the shine wore off.
Possibly. Reno has good attendance.
Compared to what though? I hear this all the time but don't know the difference between SLC & big cities. What do all of you do in big cities?
gregbroncs
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No they wouldn't. There problem would be worse because all of their games are on the worst attended game of the week. That attendance drop is the very reason the NFL won't even bother with the state. A huge % of an already small market is not going to come to your games. Therefore Utah would have to have twice the population of another market to even be considered. Since the NFL is more into big markets (excluding Greenbay) I see no hope for Utah to ever get a NFL team.
Hotdog
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We would have as good as chance as anyone to be great. The NFL is built that way. If the Miller's owned it and ran it the same as the Jazz, I have no doubt we would eventually become a great team. People would follow a good team. For a long time. Not just a year.
I have seen a lot of people say no, they work wouldn't drop their current team. I call B.S. Maybe at first it would be hard, but I bet you all would come around.
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The hypothetical is if Utah would support a team, not if the NFL would move one here. As far as that goes, Utah & new ownership would turn around that ****ty Bengals franchise. Provo, Ogden, & SL metro areas combine to about the same size, but are probably 10x the support since most Cincinnati residents are probably Colts fans.
UGLI baby
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Do you even have proper I.D. for such a thing?
If they can support a basketball team why wouldn't they be able to support a football team? The only thing I see being a problem is the whole playing on Sunday thing, but it's not like everyone in Utah is a Mormon and not all the people who are Mormons are always at church.
But who buys the season tickets? Could you be a prominent Utah business owner and a leader in the LDS church (a remarkably common combination) AND be a season ticket holder? The big money in Utah can't sign up to miss church at least 8 times a year. That's my opinion anyway. Joe six-pack (of mountain dew) might skip out on church here and there when he has a chance to go to a game, but the richest folks, the ones who would normally buy the best season tickets, can't make that commitment.
Sunday Jazz games are the most popular games of the week. They have the best chance of filling out seats and I have heard that is the highest $ spent on concessions per person.
Also I have gone to lots of NFL games with Mormons in other states. Some Mormons would not go but lots of them would.
Also I have gone to lots of NFL games with Mormons in other states. Some Mormons would not go but lots of them would.
UGLI baby
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Are you guys serious? I live in Utah and watch Football EVERY SUNDAY. Not only that but I usually have 4 or 5 friends over too. So if even 25 percent of people in Utah watch football like me (extremely low estimate) that's about 700,000 people. Then you can't forget about the 4-5 friends they will bring with them. That's a fanbase of roughly 3,000,000. Now if we're realistic and say that only 10% of those people are going to come I every game that leaves 300,000 people. Quickly the problem becomes building a big enough stadium to house everyone.
Also, some of you are forgetting the marketability of "Monday Night Football Family nights." We could just schedule half our games every year for MNF. If its a choice between family home evening board games or going to the stadium for MNF family nights what do you think most people will prefer? Geeee hmmmm let me think about that.
Also, some of you are forgetting the marketability of "Monday Night Football Family nights." We could just schedule half our games every year for MNF. If its a choice between family home evening board games or going to the stadium for MNF family nights what do you think most people will prefer? Geeee hmmmm let me think about that.