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Panthers: One Of The Least Popular Teams In The Nfl

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NFL.com recently released an article that lists the NFL teams based on their popularity. ESPN had been compiling statistics and numbers from 390,000 people since 1994 through telephone interviews for this information

I'm not sure how accurate the poll is because they could have called individuals from Wisconsin more than they called people from North Carolina alleviating the opportunity for teams to move up in the rankings based on the facts of people cheering for the team in their home state.

A lot of it also tends to deal with the size of the market and overall market value which is why you see that a lot of the teams in the top half are big market teams, have won Super Bowls (market value), or both.

Finally, it depends on history. Four of the five bottom teams have only been around or in a particular state since 1970; so they're just not that popular among the state they reside in.

Nonetheless, the article is pasted below.

http://www.nfl.com/n..._headline_stack

The Cowboys posted a first place finish and the Jaguars came in last.

Top 5

1. Dallas Cowboys

2. Green Bay Packers

3. New York Giants

4. Pittsburgh Steelers

5. New England Patriots

Other NFC South Rankings

7. New Orleans Saints***

25. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

26. Atlanta Falcons

Bottom Five

28. Carolina Panthers

29. Arizona Cardinals

30. Cincinnati Bengals

31. St. Louis Rams

32. Jacksonville Jaguars

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It's from the forbidden website, but it does a great job exposing espn's piece.

Once again, a sampling of a small slice of America is being interpreted broadly and expansively to reflect the attitudes of the millions of folks who inhabit this great nation of ours.

This time, ESPN has declared that America’s team still is America’s team, with 8.8 percent of the country making the Dallas Cowboys their favorite pro football franchise.

As usual, however, the devil has built a duplex in the details.  For starters, there’s no mention of the margin for error arising from assuming that the views of 1,500 can be extrapolated to more than 313 million.  With the top five teams separated by only two percentage points, that’s a fairly critical wrinkle.

Perhaps even more importantly, the truth is that the Cowboys came in second.  Behind “pass.”

That’s right.  A full 10.3 percent of the 1,500 people polled didn’t indicate a favorite team.

So all we really know is that 132 people in America are Cowboys fans.  And that 150 people in America don’t have a favorite NFL team.

Of course, that information wouldn’t create the kind of headline that would drive traffic to ESPN.com.

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No offense but I'm not surprised the panthers are in the bottom 5. New franchise, no franchise QB until now, not a bad team at all but not particularly dominant. Panthers are doing real well in comparison to the Jags who came in at the same time.

Also I'm pretty sure the Steelers are the most popular team. Cowboys and Packers are up there definitely but I really have this gut feeling its the Steelers.

Also.. within the next ten years the Panther's popularity is going to sky rocket. We all know why.

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