Survey says: Braves more popular than Cubs (huh?)
As it turns out, there are still quite a few people who do that "Chop" thing. Who knew?
Since we’ve been doing a lot of bashing of the Braves in this corner, I thought it was only fair to bring you this very positive update: The Braves are popular!
They’re more popular than the Cubs. They’re more popular than the Dodgers or Cardinals. They’re not quite as popular as the Yankees or Red Sox, but they’re way north of the Indians, Blue Jays and possibly even 5-percent, 30-year fixed mortgages.
According to a nationwide survey just released by the Harris Poll, the Braves ranked third behind only the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox when respondents were asked: “What is your favorite baseball team?”
It’s worth noting that the 2,177 adults surveyed were not asked these questions in March, when the organization oozed with optimism and seemingly everybody was drinking the pre-season Kool-Aid. Rather, the poll was conducted between June 8 and June 15, after the Braves had settled into a .500 season.
I’ve included the entire chart down below. As you’ll see, the Braves have been a top-three team in this poll since 1999. The Yankees have been No. 1 every year except for 1999, when the Braves were No. 1. The Braves actually ranked second behind only New York the previous two years.
The biggest surprise is that the Cubs, who have one of the largest national followings, finished in fourth place (tied with the Dodgers). For those of us who’ve attended several Braves-Cubs game at Turner Field and surveyed the sea of Cubs fans in attendance, this is rather stunning.
I’m also wondering: If the Braves still rank as high as third on the love scale, does this mean none of their fans vote for them for the All-Star Game?
Derek Schiller, the Braves’ executive vice-president in charge of sales and marketing, said of the poll results: “For us, it’s not altogether a surprise. I wouldn’t say we’re confident that it’s going to happen every year, but we believe we have a large fan base, especially one that’s on a national scope. I wouldn’t expect that to diminish just because of one bad year or three bad years or even five bad years. Our following is not always performance-based.”
The good folks at Harris also wanted you to know that only people in the U.S. were polled, as if to suggest that’s why the Toronto Blue Jays ranked 30th in popularity. Because I’m sure if Canadians were polled, the Jays would have finished at least, well, 30th.
Other questions and results:
♦ Who will win the World Series? Top five answers: Red Sox (21 percent), Yankees (19), Dodgers (18), Phillies (7), Cubs (5). (The Braves finished with 2 percent.)
♦ Who follows Major League blog? Adults (41 percent). Gender: Male (53), Female (29). Ethnicity: White (41), African American (42), Hispanic (45). Region: East (48), Midwest (45), South (35), West (39).
The Harris poll results, going back to 1999:
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me
July 15th, 2009
4:15 pm
Very surprised. Guess we can thank TBS for that…well not any more.
Paul H
July 15th, 2009
4:19 pm
Exactly. Without TBS they are no longer “America’s” team. The popularity will decline. Of course, continuing to play sub .500 ball will damage the popularity as well. When’s football season again?
THWG
July 15th, 2009
4:24 pm
I’m surprised we’re ahead of the Cubs, who are still shown on a national superstation. TBS has really gone downhill since breaking apart from the Braves. Did you know they actually show Sunday afternoon baseball, as if to complement ESPN’s Sunday night baseball? Stupid.
Laura
July 15th, 2009
4:28 pm
I’d like to see the areas of the nation that this poll selected participants from. If there were more from one area or another, that could lead to the results.
Or, perhaps, those damned Yankees and Boston bandwagon fans are just even more obnoxious than everyone thinks.
Chris
July 15th, 2009
4:36 pm
Very cool, but it would be nice if Braves fans raised their voices at the ballgame once in awhile.* Or show up. Yeah, that.
*And not for The Wave or some fan catching a foul ball.
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 15th, 2009
4:45 pm
Alot of the popularity of the Braves and Cubs had to do with WTBS and WGN. I think since they can no longer be viewed as much around the country their respective popularities will tail off over time. You’re lucky to see 2 Cub games a week nationally on WGN now and no Braves games.
Back in years past I used to watch a lot of baseball on TV and attended far more games. By watching WTBS, WGN, and WOR I could stay reasonably familiar with every team and virtually every starting player in the National League. That kept my interest up and I attended several games a year. With the situation now, most players are just names on a page to me since I can seldom see them play. Not being able to follow the game has resulted in me losing interest and I seldom ever attend a game. (The last one being 5 years ago). All this can be attributed to Bud Selig’s (there’’s that name popping up again) grand TV vision. It’s like this Bud, I have about a 1 in a million interest in watching the Red Sox and/or the Yankees every other week. I don’t even like AL baseball because of the abominable DH rule brought about by that previous dimwit Bowie Kuhn.
Chris
July 15th, 2009
4:48 pm
How funny is it that the Mariners are ahead of the Mets?
jerry L
July 15th, 2009
4:56 pm
Didn’t see the poll’s stats on number of people polled but this also throws dirt in the eye of the a***** at Time Warner who stopped televising the Braves and offering up subpar baseball telecast. Braves were always a good draw. I wonder if Time Warner stop brodcasting Braves to punish Ted T.
John
July 15th, 2009
4:56 pm
I think one of the reasons for this is that the Braves are nearly every Southerner’s favorite team. I would almost go so far as to say that the percentage of Braves fans throughout the state is larger than in Atlanta. The problem this causes is that these fans only go to a couple of games a year, therefore ticket sales are down. I know people that are big Braves fans that have only gone to a handful of games in their lives. The Braves are incriedibly popular in rural Georgia and throughout the South, but the lack of support from people in Atlanta is what hurts ticket sales and the outward perception that the Braves are no longer an extremely popular team. Who else are people in the South going to cheer for? The Marlins? Rays? I don’t think so. I have several friends from FLA who cheer for the Braves.
Brad
July 15th, 2009
4:59 pm
The couple of responses seen here already are exactly the reason why I think Mr. Schultz and I are so surprised by these rankings… but if you take into consideration the wide geographical fan base the Braves have, you have to consider that most Georgia, S Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and East Tennessee residents are Braves fans. How many other teams can claim 4 full states around them and half of another? Even if they are rather smaller states in population than some in other areas… plus, Kentucky and Florida bring fans as well (Florida mostly from pre-Marlins/Rays days) and Virginia as well because of the Richmond AAA team for a lot of years… then, thank TBS for what they did do – the Braves might not get as many new fans since TBS isn’t broadcasting us anymore, but it did certainly bring the fans in throughout the winning days of the 90’s… I’d be interested to see the results of this survey in 1990…
M
July 15th, 2009
5:01 pm
Shocked
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 15th, 2009
5:03 pm
Don’t know how many people it translates to but the Cardinals have a pretty wide following in MO, southern IL, Arkansas, West TN & KY and the surrounding areas.
gcs
July 15th, 2009
5:04 pm
This should not be a surprise to anyone. Just because fans are louder and more obnoxious (Cub fans I am looking your way) does not mean there are more of them. We love our Braves; it’s just more of a laid back kind of cheering. We don’t whoop and holler at every ball hit to the outfield like some ignorant fans do. And we don’t jeer opposing players unless they really deserve it.
Here is the South, we save our roars for college football. Remember, the biggest college football team in Chicago is Northwestern…
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cphizzle
July 15th, 2009
5:05 pm
any chance the braves return to TBS?
The_Superhoo
July 15th, 2009
5:08 pm
I think John has part of the answer right. All of the South roots for the Braves. And that wide regional following results in low ticket sales. I’ve been a fan my entire life, but I can count the number of games I’ve seen in ATL on one hand (I’m from Richmond, VA).
Reid Adair
July 15th, 2009
5:17 pm
With the end of the TBS deal, I am really surprised to see the Braves still ranked that high.
MiltonDawg
July 15th, 2009
5:37 pm
if that’s the case, why is attendance still way down? have we become the lovable losers of the South??
Dopher
July 15th, 2009
5:52 pm
But yet a few times a year the Braves are the second favorite team in their own park…. Sad. I transplanted here in 1991 as a Big Red Machine fan from Indiana. By 1992 I had drunk the kool-aid because this is where I planned to live (and the product was exciting).
Wish others would do the same. Challenge will always be that this is a transplant city. Like I tell my co-workers from Boston and everywhere else…. People actually move to Atlanta. Not many people are leaving Hotlanta to go to Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh or any other shrinking city!
Archie
July 15th, 2009
6:09 pm
I grew up in Atlanta, but moved to West Texas when I was a teenager. The Braves were the neck and neck with the Dodgers for the most popular team, with the Yankees in the mix too. Nobody out there cared about the quote-unquote “local” teams like the Rangers or Astros. I’ve also been to a Braves game in DC, Dallas and Denver and was amazed at how many Braves fans were there. The Braves still have a nationwide fanbase. The networks know which teams rate well on TV, and the Braves are still one of them, proving that we still have a national fanbase.
Nick
July 15th, 2009
6:37 pm
Not surprising to me. The Braves are one of the only teams in the southeast. A lot of people are Braves fans because of this, but may not be able to go to the games. As for the cubs out numbering braves at turner field, we all know Atlanta is full of transplants and does not represent the true south.
Atl aufan
July 15th, 2009
6:41 pm
Very (pleastantly) surprising to me as I was annoyed and a little embarrased when the Yanks and Red Sox came in to town. There were some good comments about why the attendance is down, but another thing to consider is how BIG turner field is. It holds 50K+ people.. that’s about the same number GT’s football stadium holds (NPI)
Rob
July 15th, 2009
6:53 pm
You would be amazed at the amount of foreigners that are Braves fans as well. Imagine the ratings if the Braves were still on TBS and KK was pitching. It would have been interesting.
scottbravesfan
July 15th, 2009
6:59 pm
It has nothing to do with the south. If any of you actually post on Braves message boards you will see that most are not even from the south let alone Atlanta or Georgia. Most of the people that post on Dave O Brien’s blog are not from Atlanta or Georgia. Let’s face facts. The reason that the Braves have trouble drawing during October in the playoffs is because the games are at 1pm during the week. The fans in Atlanta are awful they don’t support any of their franchises. If the playoff games were on the weekend more people throughout the south east could make the trip to Atlanta to go to the games like they do during the summer months. The reason attendance is down this summer is because the economy sucks and a lot of people do not have the money to drive 6 or 7 hours to go to a game. The Braves tickets are cheap but by the time you factor in parking and food and drinks it’s really expensive. Used to most families in the south would head to Atlanta for a weekend, bring their kids, stay a couple of nights in Atlanta, and then head back home. But that’s not happening this year. And you can’t say it’s just because the Braves are bad because they drew 2.5 million fans last season and the season before that. They have drawn 2 million plus fans for the last 18 years and they are going to pass that mark again.
But the main reason that so many people love the Braves is because of TBS. And since we live in 2009 where most people have digital cable or a dish you can pay 170 bucks a year and get every Braves game they play on your TV. I know that’s what I do and if you got kids 170 isn’t even what you would spend driving and staying in Atlanta to see a game. The days of having to go to the ball game are over with 50 inch high def TV’s and satellite radios I do not have to live in the south east anymore to catch my favorite team. And that is what people in Atlanta, who love to rip on the Braves and seem to pride themselves on how little they support all four of their teams, fail to understand. Hell I never saw that many Georgia BullDAWG fans until they started being competitive the last few years.
GCS,
Chicago is a huge college football town. They follow a little team called Notre Dame, perhaps you have heard of them?
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
July 15th, 2009
7:01 pm
Don’t forget, the Braves have roots in Milwaukee and Boston. Those people are all dead now but I’m sure their grandkids picked up the mantle.
Joey
July 15th, 2009
7:03 pm
Jeff, Most Braves fans are simply that. Braves fans. It doesn’t matter what month nor what the record is if you are a true Braves fan. The bandwagon-jumping types will jump ship as soon as we fall below .500 then jump back on as soon as they get back in contention and proclaim themselves fans for life, then fall back off again… Most Braves fans stick it out in good times and bad.
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
July 15th, 2009
7:04 pm
Scott, pretty sure UGA was relevant in 1980 and won a NC. They beat a team that year called Notre Dame, maybe you’ve heard of them.
scottbravesfan
July 15th, 2009
7:23 pm
Bank Walker,
HAHAHAHAHA you want to try and compare the history of University of Georgia with Notre Dame? I’m glad that UGA won a national championship over Notre Dame but let’s be honest the Irish have played in a hell of a lot more National Championship games than UGA and they can’t win them all. I mean they have 11 national championships, how many does Georgia have? Tech has more than UGA. Obviously when UGA won their national championship in 1980 they were popular. I’m talking about throughout the late 80s and 90s you never heard much from them or their fans, which goes with how most fans in Atlanta and Georgia are they are bandwagon fans who will be fans of a team when it is cool. It was cool to be a Braves fan in Atlanta in the 90s and now it’s cool to be a UGA fan and the Hawks are experiencing this as well, even though they are still having problems selling out playoff games.
And yes there are still Braves fans in Boston and Milwaukee. I’ve been to a Braves game at Fenway and there were a lot of Braves fans in attendance and you still see a lot of Atlanta and Boston Braves hats around town.
eastbound and down
July 15th, 2009
7:42 pm
it ain’t the kool-aid, it is the miller high-life!
Atticus
July 15th, 2009
7:58 pm
Shows you that most fans are fair weathered.
Jeff Schultz
July 15th, 2009
8:14 pm
Chris – Didn’t notice that. Pretty funny. Sure it’s going over well in Flushing.
Brad – I think—and Schiller – are right. There’s just a lot of long-time Braves fans, particularly across the South.
Eastbound and down – I’m getting a headache just thinking about Miller.
mike
July 15th, 2009
8:36 pm
With a large dose of hindsite, I’d say we would all have to put the 5 percent, 30 year mortgage ahead of them.
blazerdawg
July 15th, 2009
8:39 pm
scott – you must be from out of town or only watch espn.
The Bulldogs have always been popular in Georgia, and have always sold out their games. This is why Sanford Stadium has been expanded from 60K to 80K to 86K to 94K in just the past 20 years…and they will turn away season ticket requests again this year.
The Braves have always been ATL and GAs next favorite team, and the Dawgs and Braves stand alone at the top locally…they also get great support. Again, keep in mind that the Braves hit 3M in attendance before the Yankees and set the NL all-time attendance mark before the 1994 strike (which did not go down well here in the south). You never hear Schulz talk about the great crowds.
Despite what espn says, the Braves have sold out every World Series game…it was just a few of the 1Pm Astros and Sunday night DiamondBack games, or playoff games late in the run that did not sell out. Always while drawing 2.5M – 3M during the year. They will draw 2.3M plus again this year, probably placing them higher than their record in the standings relative to other teams; all in a bad economy, with bad weather, with the G-Braves competing, and with a questionable team. I have not been to a game yet this year, but I love em, and hope to get time away from work to go downtown and catch a game or two.
Atticus
July 15th, 2009
9:02 pm
No other team in history sold the amount of tickets the Braves sold between 1991 and 2001
Goldenglove002
July 15th, 2009
9:09 pm
I’m really surprised about the Angels being so far down there. Weren’t they just ranked pro sprts top franchise by ESPN a few weeks ago? And based off of the attendance, I would have though Florida would have been last.
But the Braves being ranked so high should come as no surprise. We have Ted Turner to thank for that. TBS mixed along with the lack of other teams in the southeast gives the Braves a huge fanbase
Loyal Homer
July 15th, 2009
9:17 pm
Unfortunately Peachtree TV is killing the support the Braves have in South Georgia. Dish Network does not offer it.
braves70
July 15th, 2009
9:37 pm
Go ahead and throw Middle Tennessee in there too. Around Nashville, the Braves are the choice. West of the Tennessee River you start getting Cardinal fans and in Kentucky, you start finding Reds fans. With WTBS the Braves became the team for people in Idaho, Nebraska, Arkansas, and Hawaii. I miss those days. We get Peachtree TV through the Comcast setup but do not get Sports South.
Cmill
July 15th, 2009
9:44 pm
Scott, just so you know UGA hasn’t fallen out of the top 10 in home attendance for football dating back to 1981 In fact the smallest number of attendees during that stretch was in 1993 when they drew an average of 79,000 per game which put them 7th for that year. I don’t know where you get the idea that UGA’s attendance was low in the late 80’s-90’s but you’re wrong.
Also I agree with some other posters Braves fans are so spread out, asking them to attend every weekday series with the Pirates is crazy!
In addition to that Metro Atlanta Braves fans even have a tough time getting to the games. If the Ted was on the northside I feel the attendance would go up, I know travelling from Gainesville is not bad until you get to the downtown connector and you move at 5mph from 400 to the stadium. Think about how many more people from Cobb, Gwinnett, Forsyth, Cherokee, and Hall counties would have an easier time attending games.
The Falcons have a great idea considering a relocation to Doraville as Giwnnett and Cobb, Atlanta metro’s 2nd and 4th most poulated counties are much closer, not to mention the North Fulton areas of Roswell and Alpharetta.
source for UGA att. info: http://www.georgiadogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8800&ATCLID=884276
Sonny Clusters
July 15th, 2009
10:07 pm
We was trying to blog here yesterday and couldn’t get the page to load and I called Jeff and I asked him if he knowed what was wrong and he said he thinks its because hes gone to New York and Jeff Schultz was going through some sympathy for him with the blog. We was not sure if that was the reason or not. When we was playing ball together in school and the Cubs come to town we would always get tickets and go to the game and watch Sammy Sosa and listen to Harry Caray trying to say Sammy Sosa but it came out Samma Sosy or something like that when we was playing ball together. I miss baseball and will be glad when the games start back up and I am looking forward to seeing Jeff in that Mets uniform and teasing him about me being the smart one and him being a Met.
Jammie
July 15th, 2009
10:29 pm
Jeff:
We can only hope that this poll result will result in a change of heart by TBS and a return to Braves Broadcast by that station. Viewership was good nationally, resulting in the Braves popularity nationally. I wonder what their numbers are now showing those dam Yankees and horrible Mets.
corey
July 15th, 2009
10:46 pm
OK I wasn’t going to comment until i read Scott’s comments…I’ve lived in Chicago…and you’re kidding yourself if you want to believe that it’s a college football town in the LEAST. Everyone there is a Bears/Packers fan FIRST and a Notre Dame fan casually. The only reason Notre Dame is popular is that it’s everyone’s favorite team that isn’t a football fan in the first place–similar to stay at home Braves fans all over the south. (Ask NBC how its ND ratings have been lately–they stink) Having worked in sports marketing all over this country, it’s pretty common knowledge that SEC teams (especially large ones like Georgia) turn away THOUSANDS of fans each year–and have done so since the late 70s. College fooball RULES the sports market in the south both fan-wise and monetarily. If you want to compare teams, you should compare them with Ohio State, but definitely not the Chicago market or Notre Dame. It’s apples to oranges. To the other points…there are Braves fans from Florida to Virginia to Louisiana to Arkansas…their fanbase covers the south, but the fans are generally casual fans who don’t pack the stadium every week. If you asked America who its favorite MLB team is…then 3rd is about where I’d put the Braves.
Patrick
July 15th, 2009
10:48 pm
Only on this website could a Braves thread evolve into another tired College Football discussion. But I digress…
No one should be surprised that the Braves retain high populatiry nationwide. One only need watch when they are on the road and hear/see fans wearing the tomahawk and cheering when the Braves score. TBS had a lot to do with that for sure but so did the teamputting a good product on the field for nearly 20 years. I know some people on here have complained about the playoff “drought” of the last couple of years but lets not erase the memory of meaningful September and October games for a decade and a half. Those of us who grew up with that(I’m 26 and we had season tickets from 92-04) are lifelong fans and I expect that my kids will be as well.
A couple people said it on here before and its very true about NY/BOS/CHI fans’ “emotions.” The set that show up to Turner field are loud and obnoxious and, trust me, they LOVE getting under our skin by giving a standing O to every seeing eye single hit by their teams (ask them and they will confirm this). I’ll take getting out-shouted occassionally to not sound like an overgrown 8 year old in my reactions.
And Cmill, thanks for cutting through the inexplicable UGA/ND argument to get to the real point of why attendance at the Ted can’t be the baraometer of popularity. I have been to a dozen MLB stadiums and assure you that TF is the most inconveniently located park by far. To actually get people to show up on weeknights you have to (1) be located near where people work and/or (2) be accessible through public transportation. Downtown has been half empty for 25 years as Buckhead has flourished and I certainly can’t blame anyone for not cutting through the connector after 10 hours of work to catch tht all important Braves/Rockies weekday tilt. And if we didn’t have complete incompetents running the city we would figure out a way to run a train track the extra mile out to TF but that’s a whole other story.
Parkdaddy
July 16th, 2009
12:07 am
I drove all the way to Chicago for a Braves game this year. Seen 4 or 5 at Turner Field this year. Wrigley sells out EVERY game. 2000 people is not enough to complete a survey. While the Braves are one of the more popular teams in baseball (my favorite), we are not third. I love the Braves … always have and always will.
Dr. Warren
July 16th, 2009
3:16 am
The nationwide kids who watched the Braves on TBS in the 80’s and 90’s have all grown up. The seed was planted. The 15 years of very goodness also helped. The manager has stayed the same. The uniforms have stayed the same, the good ‘ole red, white, and blue. When you look at the teams outside of the top 5, who would be more popular? The Pirates? The Marlins? The Padres? The Rockies? The White Sox? No way. The ranking makes sense.
JSS
July 16th, 2009
5:22 am
Schultz, stop wasting your time writing about this type of stuff… There’s a real story in the new investors in the Falcons! Low and behold one Derek Smith of ChoicePoint!!! The same company that put hundreds of thousands credit and personal information at risk in 2005 with a giant security breach… Wow!!! And this man passed the NFL background check after only being slapped on the wrist by the Bush Justice Department, AMAZING!!!
RHR
July 16th, 2009
9:27 am
I’m one of the “son of a Milwaukee Braves fan”. My father and his buddies took annual train trips from NE Iowa to Milwaukee a few times a year to see their favorite team. I have some great old photos of them at County Stadium attending the games in the 50’s and early 60’s sporting the iconic “IBM look” with short sleeved white dress shirts and skinny solid dark ties. Growing up in central Iowa it was hard to follow the Braves until the early days of TBS on cable. Having lived in Florida and now northern Alabama for the past 25 years it has been much easier to follow the Braves.
Cubbie Girl
July 16th, 2009
1:18 pm
This should not seem all that surprising given the Cubs have not been the World Champions since they won back-to-back (had to put that in there) in 1907 & 1908. Yes, folks after 100 years with no championshipto speak of, the 2003 debacle, and being swept in 07 & 08 during the playoffs it would be reasonable to assume the Cubs would be at the bottom of the list. But no they are sitting pretty at number 4! Win or lose we love our team. The fact that the Braves were on TBS with a national audience for a seeming lifetime AND won 13 consectuive pennants and 1 WS certainly doesn’t hurt either.
As mentioned this certainly does seem surprising if you’ve ever been to Turner Field (Wrigley South) when the Cubs are in town where Cubs fans outnumber Braves fans. Yes, we represent in greater numbers and louder cheers but this does not equate to obnoxious behavior as some suggest. We are as proud of our team as you are of yours and are not going to keep quiet at games just because we’re not in Chicago.
Tim
July 16th, 2009
1:24 pm
Blazerdawg: You can thank the Yankees, Cubs, Cards and Red Sox for the Braves hitting their attendance marks. Braves fans themselves are a joke. Like someone said before, it’s said that the most noise you hear at a Braves game is between innings when they are dancing for the big screen. Pathetic atmosphere for baseball. And please don’t try to defend the Braves postseason attendance numbers. The fact that just one playoff game didn’t sell out is plain sad! (there’ve been a bunch that haven’t)
Alan
July 16th, 2009
1:37 pm
As someone stated in an earlier Braves vent, “Hell isn’t hot enough for a Cubs fan.”
TD
July 16th, 2009
1:38 pm
As a former Georgia resident, I used to love being able to see them on TBS and watched every chance I could. I would agree with other in that, since they aren’t on TV, I can’t follow the team and don’t have much interest other than to come to ajc.com. I live in Washington DC and I never watch this abomination of a team unless the Braves are in town and I can watch it on MASN. Man, I miss the days of TBS and Skip and the Gang.
Mr. Howell Mill
July 16th, 2009
2:44 pm
Not suprised at all, as an ATL native born and bred I lived in Ohio for my college years and went to see the Braves whenever they played the Reds. I was shocked intially by all the Braves fans that were in attendance, but over time I got used to it. I went to a Braves game in Milwaulkee and the same thing, Braves fans everywhere. So I am not at all suprised at the ranking in this survey.
Chicken Foot
July 16th, 2009
3:07 pm
First let me say Dwyer is over rated and tech stinks.
Yes, the Braves are a favorite everywhere. I met some folks in the Bahamas from Oregon. They said they loved the Braves without any affiliation to the city.
L
July 16th, 2009
3:13 pm
Why is everyone so surprised?
Look at the past nine years on that chart, the Braves have been in the top 3 every year.
ATL Born n Bred....
July 16th, 2009
7:26 pm
Hi…. I for one am only mildly surprised. for all the reasons mentioned, we are one of the hallmarks of baseball. Not to mention that as a franchise we ARE one of the oldest, with our roots in Boston. Also, look at the road games, no matter where we go, except maybe new york, we always have quite a few fans.
Robby
July 16th, 2009
8:14 pm
Every since TBS stop showing the Braves, I haven’t even watch TBS. I don’t see the Braves being in the top 5 after this year.