New York University PhD candidate Sean Taylor has published a series of
new maps based on Facebook figures that show a surprising social and
geographical breakdown of NFL fans. About 35 million people on Facebook
have 'liked' one of the 32 NFL teams, or roughly one out of every ten
Americans. Those numbers now show a divided country loaded with random
fan clusters and holdouts.
This map focuses on Facebook data during the playoffs. 'It's striking
just how much geographic area of the country was rooting for the Denver
Broncos come January,' Taylor says
Taylor created maps for the subsequent rounds of
the playoffs to show how the fans of remaining teams were distributed
geographically as the post-season progressed
With only two teams left for the Super Bowl,
Taylor found the country divided more or less by geography, with 49ers
fans dominating the West and the Ravens being the most popular in
counties in the mid-Atlantic and Southern states
A nation is divided between Baltimore Raven (blue) and San Francisco 49ers (red)
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