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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeChris, post: 361005, member: 922"] Same here. Honestly, any school/team with a strong "brand name" is going to have a lot of fans in NYC, regardless of geography or the type of school: Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, USC, Florida, Texas, et al. That's just the way New Yorkers are. We care about big names & bigger reputations. If the Yankees played in Topeka, but still won 27 World Series, there would probably still be a ton of Yankee fans in NYC. I know people that went to the SU/USC game wearing Trojans jerseys and they had never even set foot in the [I]state of California[/I], let alone on the USC campus. People need to remember that millions of New Yorkers come from [I]somewhere else[/I], so they don't really have some sense of geographic loyalty to teams. They came to NYC because it's the biggest & the best, so not surprisingly, those are the kinds of teams they follow: strong brand names with history & national reputations. [/QUOTE]