Patriots Are 5th Most Popular Team According to NFL.com Poll

ctpatsfan77 · May 28, 2012

Calciumee said:
We might be the 5th, yet Birmingham's New Era hat shop has one Pats hat (which I bought) and had more Jags and Panthers hats than Pats hats!

Makes no sense!

Sure it does. All the cool people are snapping up the Pats gear.

lurker1965 · May 28, 2012

Joey007 said:
Poll finds Cowboys to be NFL's most popular team - NFL.com

If the link doesn't work, if someone else would please insert one, I'd appreciate it.

I was a little surprised the Pats were behind the Steelers, but otherwise this was about what I expected. A few other notable things were-

Apparently the Cowboys are still the NFL's most overrated team.

The Jaguars really truly have virtually no fans.

Oh, and best of all, the Jets are waaay down at 19th.

The Steelers I can explain. In the '70s when I was an impressionable grade schooler the choice was Cowboys or Steelers.

Many chose the steelers. Move ahead years and those people have rarely thought about football, but if asked will say they are Steeler fans.

All these surveys are useless unless they only count people who can name 4 current players on their "favorite" team.

By the way, that is not a high bar. Brady, Welker, Gronkowski, and Ochocinco. It isn't ask for the name of the current RG or anything.

PatsFanSince74 · May 28, 2012

Ive_Killed_People said:
So a poll of 2000 random people are representing over 300 million? This pole is a joke. Actually according to this pole the real America's team is "No Preference" at 10%

A properly selected sample of 2,400 could actually be quite representative of the US adult population of around 200,000,000. The margin of error for that large a sample would be less than two percent. And "No Preference" at 10% makes a lot of sense since a lot of people don't know much about the NFL. Harris is a very well-regarded polling firm, so the sample would have been properly selected and the poll is no joke.

Joker · May 28, 2012

didn't Harris do a poll some years back about the percentage of people that don't believe polls because of sample size?...I'm sure they did, I just can't put a finger on it.

Properly calibrated polling is invaluable throughout all facets of our society, but there will always be resistance because of the "just doesn't look right" factor.

sdaniels7114 · May 28, 2012

Almost all political polls question less than 1000 people. The thinking is that its better to set the questions right and get unbiased questioners than it is to have a huge sample. You can't tell how a college-educated Chinese-American female in her 30's is gonna vote; but if 60 out of 100 college-educated Chinese-American females in their 30's vote a certain way then 6000 out of 10,000 will do the same and 6 million out of 10 million will too. Its just how it is.

TheComeback · May 28, 2012

Joker said:
didn't Harris do a poll some years back about the percentage of people that don't believe polls because of sample size?...I'm sure they did, I just can't put a finger on it.

Properly calibrated polling is invaluable throughout all facets of our society, but there will always be resistance because of the "just doesn't look right" factor.

Yeah it's funny that people who know nothing about statistics and have never put any effort into studying it think they know more than mathematicians

pork3 · May 28, 2012

Fwck them, fwck their polls, and fwck the voters who chose the other teams over us.
All that matters is that we love this team and the team continues to perform in a superlative manner that has been the case for the past decade or so.

-jamman

PatsFanSince74 · May 29, 2012

TheComeback said:
Yeah it's funny that people who know nothing about statistics and have never put any effort into studying it think they know more than mathematicians

It's because they think that they are intelligenter.

Wretch · May 29, 2012

Dingleberry said:
Anybody here a fan of Charles Schultz' "Peanuts" cartoons? The Jets are such a sad sack group, they are the Charlie Brown of the NFL.

You say the Jags are Charlie Brown? No sir. The Jags are the token black kid, Frankin. Franklin was always there, but not so you'd really notice. That's the Jags. They are in the NFL, but nobody really notices them.

Charlie Brown, however, tried so hard to be relevent. And he always failed.

Charlie Brown would stand on his head to get the attention of the little red-haired girl. Just like Rex Ryan, though good ol' Rex prefers the little hairy foot.

Charlie Brown begged for his dog Snoopy to love and respect him, but Snoopy always laughed at his hapless owner. Mark Sanchez. Although the little red-haired girl might have been the right age for Sanchez now that I think of it.

Charlie Brown was truly Peppermint Pattie's little b1tch. She abused him constantly. Peppermint PATtie? Hmmmm.

Despite years of disappointments and failures, Charlie Brown remained the eternal optimist. Every time Lucy held the football for him, THIS was going to be the time she didn't pull it away, and he was going to kick the ball to the moon. Jets fans in the off season. Ever the optimists. The off season champs 12 years running. And then the season starts, and Lucy pulls the ball away again.

Good grief, Jets.

Bottom half of the league in popularity? Rex's big mouth, whoring out to Hard Knocks, moving out of Giants Stadium were all supposed to lead to relevence.

The problem with this analogy is that Charlie Brown was/is a sympathetic character. The Jets are not.

Calciumee · May 29, 2012

ctpatsfan77 said:
Sure it does. All the cool people are snapping up the Pats gear.

Sadly that isn't true!

The hat was there 3/4 weeks ago and was still the only one yesterday!

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