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[QUOTE="Finwad32, post: 2456191, member: 651"]
My Sr. thesis paper was 35 pages of data detailing fandom by NFL Franchise throughout NYS. It also detailed media coverage across NYS and how it was skewed to each NFL franchise by city. The statistics were pretty crazy...

Even though media coverage in Syracuse - what I'll call middle ground - was slanted to the Bills over the Giants almost 66/33 over the course of my Sr. Year, the fans in Syracuse were dominantly NYG. The sample sizes were pulled from multiple outlets. The Giants, then Bills and then Dolphins/Jets/Patriots/Cowboys/Steelers, etc. were the larger ones I can remember.  The AFC East held a much larger percentage of the population by Division when you excluded the Giants, than any other.

As the cities continued East & West, the results skewed as you would anticipate.

The data ended up being pretty inconclusive, and didn't prove that the media held significant sway. Basically, the entirety of Upstate was a melting pot, my professor loved the theory and published certain parts of the research in his own works.

I have to try to dig it up from a box somewhere.
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