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We rank 'em. You react. That's how the Daily List rolls.9/07/2007 12:48:00 PM Five Best Cities For Watching Football
By Lang Whitaker, SI.com
Athens is just one of the stops near Atlanta where you can see quality football.Photo by AP
Take off your baseball caps and break out your football jerseys, people. The majority of us has seen our favorite baseball team eliminated from contention by now, and we find it time to turn our attention to the sport where the players are supposed to be unnaturally strong and huge. But where to watch? What city in our fine country provides the most variety for football fans? Here's our list of the top five cities in America for football watching:
1. Atlanta: It's not only because it's my hometown. The ATL has the doggone Falcons, a resurgent Georgia Tech and more high school football than Buzz Bissinger would know what to do with. Plus, within driving distance, the following worthwhile teams ply their trades: the Carolina Panthers, the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Universities of Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Clemson, South Carolina and Wake Forest. You can also drive up to Duke, although I'm not sure why anyone would want to see its football team play.
2. Dallas: Texas is the state that spawned Friday Night Lights and the nationally ranked TCU Horned Frogs play in Fort Worth, but the Cowboys remain religion in the Lone Star State. With Dallas as your hub, Austin and the Longhorns are just a few hours down the interstate, Lubbock and Texas Tech are a few hundred miles west and Houston and the Texans are to the southeast, with Texas A&M along the way.
3. New York: While high school football in the tristate area is still not an obsession like it is in many other parts of the country, the area does boast two NFL teams and a Rutgers team in the Top 25. Also, Penn State is about four hours to the west, but I do not recommend that drive to anyone except the adventurous.
4. Chicago: The Bears are here, and the Colts are just a few hours down I-65. Notre Dame and Michigan are each within driving distance, if you enjoy watching struggling college programs. If you prefer to stay closer to Chicago ... hey, Stewart Mandel, remember when Northwestern used to be good?
5. Las Vegas: I know, the only real team located here is UNLV (at least since the Las Vegas Outlaws closed up shop). But at any sports book in Vegas on any given Sunday (or Saturday), every TV in the joint is tuned to football. Plus, if you know what you're doing, you might be able to make a little scratch while you watch the games. Allegedly, of course.
What's the best city for watching football in America? Let us know below.
Lang Whitaker is the executive editor of SLAM magazine and writes daily at SLAMonline.composted by SI.com | View comments |
Comments:
I agree, Atlanta is the best. Dogs, Jackets, and Falcons no city can beat that. The Falcons lost a good bit when the whole Vick thing happened, but the city is still behind the team and ready to pack the Dome like last season. Tech looks like a great team this year and their fans always come out to the game. Nothing is better than Athens, Ga on gameday. 40,000 students, 93000 in the stadium, another 100,000 walking around outside tailgating, RVs and tow behind grills packing the highways from atlanta to athens, and I have a good feeling we will be ringing the bell on North Campus a lot the next couple of years(Moreno and King next year is going to be special).Tampa- You've got super champs in the Bucs an up and coming USF Bulls team, the Dolphins and Hurricanes a few hours south and the Jax Jaguars, Florida Gators and FSU Seminoles a couple hours north. Not to mention all the future pro prospects that play high school football here. The Sunshine State, oh how I love you!!That was a terrible article. Here's a more serious list:
1. New Orleans - The whole country is rooting for the underdog Saints. The superdome has more history (football and non-football) than any other stadium. The French Quarter is 5 minutes away by foot, and the always wild Tiger Stadium of LSU is only a 45 minute drive away.
2. Dallas - You got one right.
3. Miami - Dolphins and Hurricanes in the beautiful South Florida weather. Whether you like them or not, you want to be there. Also, check out Miami Northwestern High School.
4. The Bay Area - Cal is among the best in the country this year. The Raiders and Niners have been down in recent years, but have terrific histories.
5. LA - I'll watch UCLA and USC on saturdays over watching any NFL team on sunday. Beautiful weather, beautiful stadiums, and beautiful girls abound.Chicago has to be number one. In addition to the city's obsession with the bears, and the proximity to ND, every Big Ten school has multiple sports bars in this town, and people are sports literate.I thought the article was titled "Five Best Cities for Watching Football"? Last time I checked UGA played in Athens, not Atlanta. The Bay Area? Not a city. LA? How can LA be on this list if when they lost both of their NFL teams? Dallas? Who plays in Dallas? The Cowboys play in Ft. Worth. Las Vegas? No NFL. The best city to watch football is Seattle. Nothing beats tailgating on the shores of Lake Washington before a game at historic Husky Stadium on Saturday, and then over to the LOUDEST stadium in the NFL on Sunday - QWEST Field, home of the Seahawks.If you really want the best city for watching football you need to check out a CFL team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders. They play in Taylor Field in Regina. There is no better place to watch a game. Atmosphere is amazing.I agree this was an awful article. Seriously, yeah Atlanta's a great place to watch football, you're kidding me. Athens, yes, but with Vick out of the mix there will be thousands of no-shows, just like the old days at Falcons games and at the Braves games. Great fans.
Consider: Dallas, Cleveland, Pittsburgh....Great pro, close colleges and excellent high school footballKnoxville. Excellent high school football. The Vols fans are the best in the nation, and Neyland is the craziest stadium, pro or collegiate, in the nation, period. The Titans are 2.5 hours to the west as well.Atlanta? Are you kidding me? The Falcons have never had back-to-back winning seasons and Tech is at the lower end of the Top 25 in their best years. If you want good football there is Texas and the upper midwest. In Ohio we have two pro teams, perpetual D-1A contender Ohio State, 4 time D-1AA champion YSU, 9 time D-III champion Mount Union, Mid-Major Powers Miami and Bowling Green, and some of the best high school football in the country. Remember this is the place that gave you Paul Brown (the father of pro-football), Don Shula (the winningest coach ever), among others. The NFL was founded here and it is home to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.I've lived in Chi Town, the burgh, the SF Bay, State College PA and now Texas but if you can't be at the game don't care what the neighborhood bar is like, the best place is Vegas baby... I prefer the sports book at the Mirage but hey its all goodActually, there's nothing "alleged" about picking up some scratch betting on football in Vegas. Last time I checked, it was 100% legal. Seriously. As legal as breathing. No apologies, sly wink winks or "allegedly"s necessary.ClevelandWhile the timing of this post may be poor - Ann Arbor is the best place to watch a game! Be it in the Big House, or at the Little Brown Jug - there is no atmosphere in the country like that in Ann Arbor, Michigan on game day!
GO BLUE!O-H-I-O! Choose any of the Big C cities (Columbus, Cincinnati or Cleveland). The best high school football in the US; Ohio State and the MAC schools (Toledo, BG, Miami, OU, Akron, Kent); the best and most dominant D-3 team in Mount Union; and upstart Univ. of Cincinnati (ask the PAC 10); one of the best in I-AA in Youngstown State; Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Bengals and Browns. Match that!!???If some of the evidence in your "greatest cities to watch football in" includes teams and schools that are in states that aren't on your borders like the Carolina Panthers you need to start over. Atlanta stinks as a sports town, going to anything there except a braves game is depressing. We'll see how great a sports city it is without Vick or if the Georgia starts losing, nevermind the biggest football school in the city is Georgia Tech, how did the Bulldogs make it into this article?Try Madison, Wisconsin, from 3 hours before the game until the day after. From the tailgate parties to an exciting UW football game to the UW marching band's 5th quarter to the post-game revelry on Regent Street and State Street. And only a little over 2 hours to a quaint place called Lambeau Field...KC - Chiefs fans grill a ton, they fill up the stadium every game even though the team is dreadful. they are having fun, Arrowhead is a fun place to be.
Lincoln, NE - The town only exists for Cornhusker football. Like KC fans, they are diehard no matter how bad the team is. It's fun.You have got to be kidding me. Atlanta is the single worst sports town in America. I don't care how many teams are around, no one from Atlanta shows up or watches. If they can' sell out a playoff baseball game, they aren't watching any football. You need to do some homework, homer. What a joke.Good Morning, Baltimore! This is the only city (and will be the only city) that can boast two separate franchises as Super Bowl winners *and* a Grey Cup (Canadian Football League Stallions) Winner. And all of those teams (including the Stallions) were supported extremely well and vociferously. You've got the Redskins 45 minutes away, the Eagles not too much farther, and of course a great college program at Maryland. Baltimore will always be the home of legend (and greatest QB ever) Johnny Unitas. Good Morning, Baltimore! It ain't just crab cakes and John Waters films, baby! Them's be playin' some FOOTBALL there, too! ~ Thierry Nihill, Toronto, OntarioInconceivable! This article must have been written without research to stimulate responses. Wasn't the question about cities to WATCH football, not commute to it? Atlanta and Dallas almost don't qualify as football cities at all. Irving, Ft. Worth, Houston, and Lubbock are NOT Dallas. Athens and Jacksonville are NOT Atlanta.
If you just want to go by "proximity", try any town in Ohio or Western PA.
Kudos to the Bay Area, but not LA (no NFL team). Want a good Real City not yet mentioned? I submit San Diego, home the most talented NFL team, some seriously good SoCal High School ball, and one of the three great Super Bowl destinations. Fish Tacos,baby!
Tampa is a decent choice, and within 90 minutes of The Swamp and two other Div I schools, but too damn sticky hot.
Ditch Miami. Nobody even CARES about football in Miami beyond the U.I've seen a lot of bad lists in my day but this is the worst. Atlanta is the worst sports town in America and New York is no football town. WOW!Are you kidding me? This is the worst list I've I ever seen. Atlanta, have you thought what you just said Atlanta. The worst sports city in America next to Miami. Atlanta seriously, you're not kidding.I'm from Atlanta, and...you mention Wake Forest and Duke in your article and NOT FLORIDA? THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! There's a reason the Florida-Georgia game's on a "neutral" site--its to save all the Florida fans/grads that live in Atlanta money on gas because there's so many of them here. I'm a Tech fan, so I love you giving us some respect, but c'mon...you referrenced some bad teams in that article. And our HS football doesn't have anything on Texas and the midwest. That's what they live for out there. Great players here, and I'd say football in Atlanta is a great experience, but we are not number one.Cincinnati- You have the Bengals of course and the Colts are a hour and a half drive away. Then you have college teams in Ohio State, Louisville, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Miami U, and Indiana. Plus the best High School Football around just ask Hoover, DeMatha, and Charlotte Independence. We have 3 teams in Rivals top 50(3, 33, 37).COLUMBUS,OH!! How is Columbus not considered?!? First of all you have the Buckeyes, which has one of the most exciting Saturday home games a city can offer. Not to mention a number of MAC college games in the tri-state area. Besides that, there is the Browns and Bengals in state, plus the Colts, Steelers, and Lions are all within driving distance.Winnipeg is by far the best city in the universe to watch football. Besides watching a potential world champion in the Blue Bombers you can check out various bars along the way to the game. Nice stadium to boot.Go Bombers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Good article Lang, I agree the state of Georgia as a whole is a great state for football, Div. II champs Valdosta St. in the south and some of the best high school football in the country. Then up north youve got a thousand bars to catch any game at. Plus you throw in the Jackets and Dawgs and you got yourself the best.How about BOSTON.
Youve got the premiere NFL team with the Patriots and a damn good college team in the B.C. EaglesPhiladelphia
Not only do you have the E-A-G-L-E-S fans, good luck if you want to wear another jersey! You've been warned (We booed Santa)! Penn State is 3 hours away, Rutgers only a few hours away, Baltimore 2 or 3 hours away, Pittsburg across the state. NYC is a few hours away and there is Atlantic City to "watch" the games at on Sunday! Oh and Central PA has some pretty good HS Football as well.the best place to watch football is outside the city.. the best environments are rural.. Places like Clemson, Happy Valley, etc...Where the heck is Green Bay on this list?Buffalo, of course! UB is terrible, and the Bills haven't been in the playoffs for a while. The title of the article is not "...for watching great football." Other than the poor guy who gets beaten up every week during the bachianal, everyone else has a great time at RWilson Stadium before, way before, during, and after the games.What's with all the entries saying things like "Texas Tech is just a few hundred miles away"? If that's the criteria, might Philly be the best city? Just think of all the teams that are "a few hundred miles away".
But if we're talking about real, actual cities, how Houston and it's FOUR football stadiums, two of which have seating capacity over 60,000?That is the STUPIDEST FREAKING list I have ever seen. Atlanta is #1 for football watching??? It's the most tepid sports town in the country!!! Soft support for the Falcons, soft support for Tech, and UGA is NOT in Atlanta. The best sports bars in Atlanta are dedicated to OTHER teams on Sundays. Atlanta is like L.A. -- everyone is from somewhere else, so they have little interest in the local teams.
The rest of the list is stupid as well -- VEGAS??? Get real. It's great if you're betting on the games, I guess.
Best football cities: Number 1 by far is Pittsburgh. Steelers, plus Pitt, Penn State and all the high school football passion. On Sundays in the fall, everything in Western PA is draped in Black & Gold.
Other cities: Chicago, NY (TWO teams to L.A.'s ZERO), Philly. Any of them would be head and shoulders above FREAKING Atlanta.What a pathetic list. Apparently this guy has never spent time in real football cities. I'll agree with Dallas and Chicago and maybe New York, but you HAVE to include Pittsburgh and Cleveland in there. Atlanta? They couldn't even sell out their pre-Vick Falcons games! I know people in Pittsburgh who have been on the waiting list for Steelers season-tickets for years and years! Not to mention that even most GIRLS from Pittsburgh list the Steelers somewhere in their Facebook profile. Add Penn State, West Virginia, Pitt, and great H.S. football, and you've got a heck of a football city. And if you want to branch out a little bit, you have 6 additional NFL teams within a 4-5 hour drive! And as for Cleveland, only a city that is truly rabid about football would support such a horrible team so consistently. Remember, football was INVENTED between Cleveland and Pittsburgh!As soon as I saw Atlanta as number one, I knew this guy didn't know what the hell he was talking about. Any city that can't consistently fill its NFL stadium should be automatically disqualified. I'll give you two cities that are a shoo-in above "number one" Atlanta. Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Remember, football was INVENTED between these two cities.New Orleans has to be in there somewhere. The Saints (despite Thursday's flop at Indy) are a top contender in the NFC and the talent and atmosphere at LSU are 2nd to none. Throw in Louisiana's amazing high school football - the state has more players, per capita, in the NFL than any other and they have to be in the top 5. Add to that the fact that we've hosted 9 Super Bowls, more than any other city.
Posted by kc nola at 12:46 AM 0 commentsthis is the worst football article i have EVER read! You cannot possibly have an article about the best cities to watch football without even MENTIONING Philadelphia. this is absurd. No other city will EVERRRRRRRRRRR come close to the amount of fans AND the passion for the team than philly. you can honestly walk anywhere in the country and start singing either the Eagles theme song OR the Eagles Chant (E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES) and you won't be by yourself. I have walked around LA, New Orleans, Denver, Seattle, Pittsburgh(a bunch of pussfaces)the beautiful Chi-Town, AND San Diego and have started an Eagles chant randomly while walking down the street just to gauge a reaction and more than a handful of people have joined in. No city in football---let alone Sports is home to bigger fans and is a better place to watch football than PHILADELPHIA. Dispute this in your home, NOT out in public in philly because you will catch a serious beating no doubt in my mind!!! Philadelphia Rules!!!!!!!!!!OK so I can understand not mentioning Madison, WI if you are talking straight cities to teams relationships as that is the only team in the city...however if you start to talk about the area business then how can you not mention Mad-Towne! Driving distance to Green Bay and Chicago...this list was redonkulous.The best city to watch football is Philadelphia....The fans get a bad rep because of a few bad wags in the press box....
But you had New York in your article as the best city to watch football? C'mon, you must be kidding....Even Troy Aikman said during preseason broadcast that New York is one place where football takes a backseat to baseball....The shortstop of the Yankees stop the entire city more than two NFl teams combined....Washington should be in the discussion, Redskins are obviously the talk of the town. VT, UVA, and Maryland all considered local squads plus fantastic high school ball. Its not the top, but should be in the discussion.Pittsburgh
Cleveland 2.5 hours
Columbus 3.5 hours
Morgantown VW 1.25 hours
Cincinnati 5 hours
Baltimore 4 hours
Washington 3.5 hours
Penn State 2.5 hours
Great High School ball
and Steelers right here!The 5 best cities for football would be
1. Dallas
2. Atlanta
3. Los Angeles
4. Kansas City
5. ClevlandNew York????
I'm sure there's plenty of other cities to take over it, but let's start with Cleveland: Browns (okay they suck), close enough to Pittsburgh, and then Ohio State, some of the best minor conference football (MAC), and some of the nation's best HS football.baton rouge--did you see it saturday?I agree with everything!! To the idiot who said the Cowboys play in FT Worth your WRONG!!! They play in Irving which is not even 5 minutes away from Dallas. Irving is about 25 minutes away from FT Worth....GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!Totally agree. You all need to come see a CFL game in Regina! Taylor Field at Mosaic Stadium is awesome. If any of you had been there last week for the Labour Day Classic against the Bombers, you would have been impressed.Pittsburgh, bar none.
The whole city wears black and gold to games, and you can also see U of Pittsburgh and Penn State. If you are a Browns fan, Cleveland is only a couple of hours away.
Falcons fans don't hold a candle to Steelers fans.The fact that Pittsburgh is not on this list is very dissapointing. Heinz Field is a beautiful stadium and a great place to watch a game, professional or otherwise. Pittsburghers take their football very seriously. The Steelers, University of Pittsburgh and high schools that have brought several great players, football is what the 'burgh is all about. Not to mention the World Champion NWFA team The Pittsburgh Passion that went undefeated in the 2007 season.Ummm, how about Green Bay? The town has around 100,000 in population and 70,000 go to the game!I must say, this list isnt too great. Chicago is great but as for the other places... not so much. Check out Pittsburgh, Tampa (even though the team isn't too good anymore the fans are awesome), even though im not a fan Patriots games are wicked, New Orleans... all great places for a gameGreat, I totally agree. College football absolutely destroys any other sport out there.
SEC 4 life!Best City to Watch Football .. Pittsburgh .. Steelers, PITT (as much as it pains me), WVU, PSU, and probably the best high school football outside of Texas. And if you don't believe me, watch where most of the big ten & notre dame's recruits come from ..If you want to watch real Football not American Football then the best cities are:
1. London
2. Munich
3. Manchester
4. Paris
5. Berlin
Beautiful huge stadia with the greenest grass, 75 yards wide and 120 yards long.Obviously LA now Beckham is playing there!Louisiana Saturday Night???
Superdome post-Katrina?
Tailgating 2 a days?
And you didn't mention Baton Rouge, New Orleans, or any other location in the football oriented Louisiana?
Do you have ANY credibility?Terrible Article -
1) Denver
2) Kansas City
3) Dallas
4) Boston (Foxboro)
5) Ann ArborWho has the most world-wide fans in the NFL? The Pittsburgh Steelers. Imagine living here. About 300k people turned out for the Super Bowl rally, the city was shut down. When the Colts won? I think I remember hearing about 20,000 people showing up. ; PPittsburgh is amazingly dedicated to the Steelers. On any given day you can see 20 jerseys, and on game days there's black and gold everywhere. Nearly every place I've been that had a tv, if theres a Steelers game playing, thats whats on the tv. Just today I seen a tv setup at a Hardees, with the game playing. First time I've ever seen a tv in a fast food place.Did someone just put Cleveland and "great pro" team in the same sentence? Try Cincinnati or Columbus, with better pro, college, and high school teams.Lincoln, Nebraska.
84,000 people in attendance makes the stadium the third largest city in the state on gameday, and they always sell out - something like 25+ years of straight sell outs.
The entire town is a sea of red.Cleary the best city in America to watch footbal is either Buenos Aires or Sao Paulo... that it, of course, when you call things properly... like "America" being all of the continent, not just USA, and football being the sport played with... oh, god, the foot...This is the worst compiled list I've ever seen.
Atlanta as the number one? Well, you've got the worst record in the league Falcons (yes, I enjoy seeing teams win,) and the mediocre Georgia Tech, and yes there is adequate HS football but there is like 100 high schools within 50 miles of ATL so that is no surprise.Seattle of course.What an idiotic list. Number one is the writer's home town?? And who other than Cowboys fans want to be in Dallas?Atlanta number 1?? this is ridiculous, and this article has lost all credibility.You just go and lay your hand on a Pittsburgh Steeler fan, and I think you're gonna find they understand.Awful list, but the premise is flawed. Everybody will think their own city is the best, but the truth is the best football cities are pretty much the same thing as the best sports cities in general - i.e. Boston, New York, Philly, Chicago, etc.You've got to be kidding me. Where is Philadelphia on this list? Everyone knows Eagles fans are the most die-hard, most entertaining, most involved and aware fans and no one (and I mean NO ONE) cares more about our team than the fans of the Philadelphia Eagles. I think it's a disgrace to see Philadelphia omitted from this list.NY is a baseball city, not a football city. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Green Bay are football towns. I don't see how Atlanta is even on the radar.Nashville: With the Titans, Commodores, MTSU, The Vols, and great High School ball, it is a great city for Football.Philadelphia.Of course the Bay Areaisn't a city, its a bunch of dense cities.
If I had to pick a city off hand for football I would definitely pick Oakland, CA.
Cal Berkeley, and the 49ers are only a few miles away. Further south you have San Jose's SaberCats, High School ball abound... on top of the battle of the bay... where history literally plays out.
2nd would be Pittsburgh. 3rd would be Dallas.Hmm Green Bay anyone...not only do you have the historic lambeau field and the packers (that sell out preseason games) but just a few hours south you have madison and Camp Randall Stadium, probably one of the best places anywhere to watch college football! Saying all that, GO PACKERS and ON WISCONSIN!!!Atlanta perhaps because of the atmosphere around some of these games. While I'm in no rush to live there, it does live up to it's Souther Hospitality legend.Atlanta...Atlanta????
You mean the town where Arthur Blank had to lower ticket prices to get fans to attend games.
You mean the town that will have 1000's of empty seats for the Falcons games now that Vick is gone...!!?!?!?
How did you even get a job as a writer let alone at SI???
Seriously
Best states for Football: Texas, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio.oo please you obviously don't know football..... the only place outside of Las Vegas (for obvious reasons) is Columbus Ohio... totally off your map huh? Well think about this ...within a 5 hour drive look at what you have
NFL:
Bengals
Colts
Browns
Steelers
Lions
Bears
College
Ohio State
Univ Cincinnati
Purdue
Univ PA Pitt
UWV Morgantown
Univ Michigan
Michigan State
(several others)
I challenge any other city to be within a reasonable distance of more football yardage in a weekend. hands down Columbus Ohio!!!!
Read and weap boys.. read 'em and weap!
Hee hee hee
It never felt so good to be a buckeye and survive one of our crazy winters and torturous humid summers.Lincoln Nebraska has a great program and nothing else.Columbus, OH....nowhere else can you hear your neighbors cheer when the home tema wins...Ohio State! Also, pro temas: Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indy and Pittsburgh are all short drives away. On the college side, so is Bowling Green, UC, Akron, Kent State, Miami, OU, and Toledo.Agree 100% Atlanta/Athens, GA is Football heaven!!Milwaukee is a great town for football fans. You're basically halfway between Green Bay and Madison... two football magnets. You also have MLB and NBA hometown teams during the off-season.Blacksburg, VA! Let's Go HOKIES!!!!Last time I checked, New York had THREE football teams. The Bills (who actually play IN New York State) and the Jets/Giants.
New York does not end with the 5 boroughs....If NYC get to claim Penn State becuase it's only 4 hours away. The Pittsburgh gets to claim the Steelers,Pitt, Penn State,WVU,Ohio State countless small colleges (Duquesne,Canegie Mellon,IUP ETC...) and more than enough High School football for anyoneWhat about Cincinnati? They have the Bengals and probably some of the best high school football in the county! Columbus and Indianapolis are close by as well as Louisville. Plus, the UC football team is on the rise!Please inform Mr. L. Whitaker, resident idiot of SLAM magazine that FOOTBALL IS NOT PLAYED IN NYC!!! The Giants and Jets play in New Jersey. CCNY, Hunter, NYU, and Fordham don't play football. Columbia does play football, yet one could hardly state the attending a Columbia home game in NYC is a fantastic football outing.
Las Vegas- is this fellow Lang an unreported relative of 'bettin' Pete Rose, 'Make the Spread Donachie', and all time favorite, 'I will steal and sell your Mother into white slavery to pay the juice'Art Schlicter? Ain't no football played at the Mirage, Ceaser's, Frontier, Alladin, ALndmark, DI, or Stardust.
I believe Mr. Lang 'reads' more about good football cities than he actually does research into locating good football cities. This chap is another lazy writer who desires to get the bucks and sit in his condo doing web research rather than get off his can and performing the real work required to put together an interesting and captivating story.
A shame too, because the fellow actually has a great idea to stimulate debate and get outisde information into what cities here to fore not renowned are wonderful venues for football.This list was more about quantity than quality. If you want quality football watching, there's only one place to go: THE FROZEN TUNDRA OF LAMBEAU FIELD! Pack up your computer until basketball season, Whitaker.It seems that people are already forgetting who has won the NCAA basketball championship the last TWO years, and football championship last year.
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA
You aren't going to find more enthusiastic fans anywhere!Cincinnati-
A Bengals team that is reborn, and the best High School football around. UC doesn't look too bad this year either.Atlanta is TERRIBLE! I live there and it is WEAK. Try living in Cleveland, Ohio where EVERYTHING is about football. The Browns, as bad as they are are EVERYTHING to those wackos (I'm a Steelers fan). And Ohio State? Those people stop everything for Ohio State games (I'm a Michigan fan). Glad I moved. But Atlanta? No one here cares about the Falcons and most, since very few are from here, hate the SEC. Atlanta...NOT good.How could PITTSBURGH not be listed? There's the steelers, of course, plus the Steeler nation, a season ticket waiting list that's absurdly long, and high school football teams from across western Pennsylvania that have fostered NFL players and coaches. And, there's even a women's semi-pro team that is top-ranked.wow, what a bad list. Las vegas and Atlanta are a joke. Green Bay. The most winningist nfl team. The Packers are rich in tradition and one of the oldest professional sports team. also in green bay is the most exciting football player to ever play the game, BRETT FAVRE. Also about two hours away are the Wisconsin badgers one of the big ten's elite teams. Camp Randall is one of the best atmoshperes, and the students go crazy.wow, what a bad list. Las vegas and Atlanta are a joke. Green Bay. The most winningist nfl team. The Packers are rich in tradition and one of the oldest professional sports team. also in green bay is the most exciting football player to ever play the game, BRETT FAVRE. Also about two hours away are the Wisconsin badgers one of the big ten's elite teams. Camp Randall is one of the best atmoshperes, and the students go crazy.Green Bay. The most winningist nfl team. The Packers are rich in tradition and one of the oldest professional sports team. also in green bay is the most exciting football player to ever play the game, BRETT FAVRE. Also about two hours away are the Wisconsin badger one of the big ten's elite teams. Camp Randall is one of the best atmoshperes, and the students go crazy.Atlanta?!? Only an ignorant (and not in the good way) homer would pick Atlanta as a top 5 football town. As far as the professional level, Philadelphia fans are the most consistently rabid...Chicago, right there. KC, GB, and a write-in fill out the top 5. But no "bandwagon" cities like Washington D.C., New Orleans, and most other cities. You'll find a lot of Steelers fans... but not in Pittsburgh, most have fled that dying city. New York has no football team, but New jersey has two. High school is big in Texas, but the wine drinkers in Irving aren't Fans.I have to agree about Pittsburgh being the best...and your article being the worst.
I've lived in Baltimore, NC, Chicago, New York, and Philly, and nobody holds a candle to the 'Burgh. And speaking of Philly in particular, their fans are so obnoxious (Hello? Jail in the stadium?) that I would deem it the WORST place to watch a game. It's bad enough to be in a bar with the knuckleheads chanting. Puh-leeze.
Pittsburgh, then Cleveland (notsomuch this past Sunday for the latter, ahem.). Pittsburgh had a fantastic football weekend, and it's not going to stop.Whatever city I live in is obviously the best for watching football.anyone ever heard of a little place called Titletown, USA otherwise known as Green Bay, WI? It's got the team that's won the most championships in NFL history, Brett Favre who's about to pass Marino for most TDs and Elway for most wins, not to mention where else is there a team owned by the fans?Atlanta should be on zero lists concerning sports unless those lists are: a) most disasterous olympics outside of Germany or b) worst post-season baseball teamsYet another reason to have Columbus, Ohio on your list: Wilson Football Factory is an 1.5 hours northwest of the city in Ada.Check the facts before you take a cheap shot at Northwestern. I'm not saying the Cats are a national power, but they're good for a bowl game every 2-3 seasons, have multiple wins the past few years against teams like Penn State, Wisconsin, and Iowa, and do more with less than any other team in the Big Ten.ok, i now live in nyc and previously lived in columbus, ohio (i personaly feel is one of the greatest collage football towns in the country). the thing about new york city is half the people in the city don't even know what football is or consider it soccer. and as for you lang, the falcons suck and so do the bulldogs. maybe you and ted turnner should stick to watching braves baseball on tbs. s.i. should fire you for posting such bs.
go bucks , go steelers, and lang... your an idiotohio is fine, so long as you don't mind watching a bunch of crappy teams with a whole slew of redneck, hilbilly fans.I'd have to put Buffalo up there. SOme of the most loyal fans in the NFL still flock to the Ralph despite the hardships that the Bills are going through right nowBUFFALO??? someone said BUFFALO??...BWAHAHAHA..yer kiddin?
And to the guy that said NJ has 2 NFL teams. Why do New Jersey folks all have NY-envy?? The NEW YORK GIANTS and the NEW YORK JETS rent a stadium in NJ to play in. Thew never have been nor ever WILL BE "from" NJ.If you've ever been in the Dawg Pound at Browns Stadium on a Sunday, you'd know Cleveland should have made this list.i say the beer-gouda triangle. Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay. City conference football on friday night in milwaukee, bucky tearing ass through the big ten in mad town on sunday and the green bay packers in the mecca of all that is football on sunday.Oh please, ATLANTA?!? Shoot, they could give away seats to a Falcons game and no one would want to go. I say quality over quantity, and Cincinnati (and Ohio in general) definitly is near the top of the list, if not the top of the list. We have some of the best high school football in the country. Right now in SI, St. Xavier is ranked second, and Colerain is ranked eighth, not to mention the great Elder-Moeller game, not to mention other Ohio powerhouses LaSalle, Turpin, and Anderson. If you go north to Cleveland and the areas in between, you have Masillon, which is considered one of the most diehard highschool football towns in America, and there is St. Ignatius of Cleveland, who always poses a threat. Then there's college football. You can not go without naming Ohio State, who is currently ranked 3rd in the country, and the University of Cincinnati who is 23rd. Then you have the MAC, which is always entertaining to watch and has had many great coaches and players come from (a la Ben Roethlisberger). And to top it all off, we have the Bengals, who, although aren't doing to well, always have that who dey spirit (Cincinnati is considered one of the top tailgating cities in the country, too) and we have the charging Browns, who are 6 and 4 and are on their way to leading the Conference. Who ever says Ohio and its major cities isnt the best football area has to be crazy.Within 5 hours. Houston Texas
NFL - Texans, Gods team The Cowboys, Saints
College- UT,ATM,TCU,Rice,LSU,UH,OU,LT
Granted Texas is a huge state within it 8 hours to see Tech play.
High School - Nothing beats its. Everyone knows it Texas HS FB is the greatest experience.
Stadiums are phenonmenal
even High school stadiums go into the 5 million range.u guys are only talking about big cities. heres my rankings
1. Hoover, alabama, and any place in nthe deep south
2.el paso, texas football is huge in texas
3. palo cedro california, far north at the border of cali and oregon football is HUGE, a 1 mil$ field was donated to foothill high
4. Concord, CA this rich area puts UNBELEIEVABLE amounts of maoney into de la salles program
5.Tampa FL, football is huge here
6. Corona CA not an especially rich area, actually pretty poor, but the work ethic taught to these plaers is amazing and the passion of the areaTerrible list. Dallas is number 1, for sure. Boston, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, etc are all contending with strong baseball ties. Texas breathes football, and so does Wisconsin. Madison doesn't even have a baseball team, and neither does Green Bay. In these towns, the only places open during a game are the bars, which are showing the game. Cleveland deserves a nod here too,as well as Pittsburgh. Both have irate fan-bases, and that's what makes a city the best to watch football in...Recent Posts
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