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Having lived in Denver for 22 years, I would say it's a somewhat unusual sports town. They didn't have sports besides football until recently, so the only die-hards are Broncos fans. This is far and away a football town. The only thing that matters is the Broncos, win or lose. The city shows up for it's other sports the same way, but it's more like a thing to do - particularly baseball. It's a nice stadium right in downtown and lots to do around the park, so people make it a thing, but they are not Rockies fans like they are Broncos fans. It's a thing to do. Also, there are ALOT of transplants that moved here in the last 20 years, and they show up for THEIR teams. The transplants will also go to Rockies games to see some baseball, but the Rockies aren't really a threatening team to anyone else's fandom, so it's a fun day out.

I have yet to meet anyone that is an actual Rockies fan. I know TONS of Broncos fans, even transplants adopt them as their own. I even know a few Avs fans and some Nuggets fans, but those teams have been successful recently. Rockies, even in 2007 - it was a huge deal here - but in the end it was another thing to do, and I don't think it made many here true Rockies fans. But they still show up to games!
 
Nerfherders said:
Having lived in Denver for 22 years, I would say it's a somewhat unusual sports town. They didn't have sports besides football until recently, so the only die-hards are Broncos fans. This is far and away a football town. The only thing that matters is the Broncos, win or lose. The city shows up for it's other sports the same way, but it's more like a thing to do - particularly baseball. It's a nice stadium right in downtown and lots to do around the park, so people make it a thing, but they are not Rockies fans like they are Broncos fans. It's a thing to do. Also, there are ALOT of transplants that moved here in the last 20 years, and they show up for THEIR teams. The transplants will also go to Rockies games to see some baseball, but the Rockies aren't really a threatening team to anyone else's fandom, so it's a fun day out.

I have yet to meet anyone that is an actual Rockies fan. I know TONS of Broncos fans, even transplants adopt them as their own. I even know a few Avs fans and some Nuggets fans, but those teams have been successful recently. Rockies, even in 2007 - it was a huge deal here - but in the end it was another thing to do, and I don't think it made many here true Rockies fans. But they still show up to games!
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Similar to Phoenix, except the Suns are the team that produces the die-hards.
 
I think the passion for the Braves is more across the state and Southeast in general. Hawks and Falcons passion seems to be more from inside the city. Georgia football, though, dwarfs it all.
 
The Falcons have been a comically bad franchise and that Super Bowl was really just the pinnacle. A lot of folks like me have checked out because the previous front office more or less ruined the franchise and set it back years.
 
bravesnumberone said:
I think the passion for the Braves is more across the state and Southeast in general. Hawks and Falcons passion seems to be more from inside the city. Georgia football, though, dwarfs it all.
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The Braves also still have residual SuperStation reach. I've met plenty of Braves fans that have barely been to Atlanta.
 
jpx7 said:
The Braves also still have residual SuperStation reach. I've met plenty of Braves fans that have barely been to Atlanta.
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Yeah. I met a married couple from Wyoming at a game last year, and they'd been fans since the '80s/'90s but only ever been to Atlanta a couple times.
 
jpx7 said:
The Braves also still have residual SuperStation reach. I've met plenty of Braves fans that have barely been to Atlanta.
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This is how I became a fan. A 14 year old with a broken foot stuck inside all summer watching the Braves on TBS every single day at 4:35 right as they got good.
 
Cable reaches a long way. Southwest Virginia has been a Braves hotbed for forty years. Even had their Appy league team in Pulaski for years. Even with the Orioles' long affiliation here in Bluefield on the WV side of the state line (the park is on the VA side) the Braves still had a foothold. You saw a ton breaking out old gear last October. They still miss the nightly viewing TBS afforded them.
 
We got TBS on our local cable system in south Arkansas in 1978. The ability to watch games nearly every night pulled me away from the dark side (Dodgers) and hooked me on the Braves well before my 10th birthday. The 1982 division winner cemented it.

Now that I'm married to a woman who lived in Atlanta for 15 years, it's much easier to pull off trips to watch games. Easier to justify the expense if she gets to visit her friends. We are usually able to get down there once or twice per year.
 
jpx7 said:
Dude's working hard for that big contract from Anthopoulos & Friends.
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1 year/50 million.I am kinda curious what deal he gets, does he get 300+ million? He'll be 30 as a free agent, maybe something like 7 years/300m.
 
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Heyward said:
1 year/50 million.I am kinda curious what deal he gets, does he get 300+ million? He'll be 30 as a free agent, maybe something like 7 years/300m.
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Yea, I'm mostly joking. I think, given this platform season, he's going to cash in mightily—and he's already rejected a seven-year, $213.5 million contract extension, so we know he's eying well in excess of those numbers. But a long-term deal for him, as a thirty-year-old with a large frame and some history of leg injuries, just seems really ill-advised, if not downright frightening. Honestly, it's hard to imagine any team but the Yankees shelling out—especially since they can always buy their way out of the contract later—but even they have some risk aversion these days.

He grew up a Giants fan—maybe they sign him to something like eight years and $250m and try to bring some star power back to the Bay.
 
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