Article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...n-map.html
Map: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...l-map.html

Below the map you'll see a section mentioning Chicago:
Chicago is sometimes called "a city of neighborhoods," and it shows on this map.Those loyalties are split among Notre Dame, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State and Northwestern, each of which is the leading team in at least one ZIP code.

No mention of NIU :(

(10-03-2014 09:26 AM)Enaiu Wrote:  Article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...n-map.html
Map: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...l-map.html

Below the map you'll see a section mentioning Chicago:
Chicago is sometimes called "a city of neighborhoods," and it shows on this map.Those loyalties are split among Notre Dame, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State and Northwestern, each of which is the leading team in at least one ZIP code.

No mention of NIU :(

And what is the common characteristic of the teams mentioned?

(10-03-2014 09:28 AM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  

(10-03-2014 09:26 AM)Enaiu Wrote:  Article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...n-map.html
Map: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...l-map.html

Below the map you'll see a section mentioning Chicago:
Chicago is sometimes called "a city of neighborhoods," and it shows on this map.Those loyalties are split among Notre Dame, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State and Northwestern, each of which is the leading team in at least one ZIP code.

No mention of NIU :(

And what is the common characteristic of the teams mentioned?

Did you read the article?

"The other teams with only a few ZIP codes (but still more than zero) are the Southern Miss Golden Eagles (1), the Indiana Hoosiers (4), the Northwestern Wildcats (7), the Northern Illinois Huskies (8) and the Oregon State Beavers (8)."

Idiots.

(10-03-2014 09:26 AM)Enaiu Wrote:  Article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...n-map.html
Map: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...l-map.html

Below the map you'll see a section mentioning Chicago:
Chicago is sometimes called "a city of neighborhoods," and it shows on this map.Those loyalties are split among Notre Dame, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State and Northwestern, each of which is the leading team in at least one ZIP code.

No mention of NIU :(

Lots of FBS teams are not even on the MAP...NIU is. So we have that going for us...which is good.

(10-03-2014 09:36 AM)seeds99 Wrote:  

(10-03-2014 09:28 AM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  

(10-03-2014 09:26 AM)Enaiu Wrote:  Article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...n-map.html
Map: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...l-map.html

Below the map you'll see a section mentioning Chicago:
Chicago is sometimes called "a city of neighborhoods," and it shows on this map.Those loyalties are split among Notre Dame, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State and Northwestern, each of which is the leading team in at least one ZIP code.

No mention of NIU :(

And what is the common characteristic of the teams mentioned?

Did you read the article?

"The other teams with only a few ZIP codes (but still more than zero) are the Southern Miss Golden Eagles (1), the Indiana Hoosiers (4), the Northwestern Wildcats (7), the Northern Illinois Huskies (8) and the Oregon State Beavers (8)."

Looks like I skipped over that, but that wasn't the point I was trying to make. The article breaks Chicago's teams, and then doesn't mention NIU:
"Chicago is sometimes called "a city of neighborhoods," and it shows on this map. Those loyalties are split among Notre Dame, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State and Northwestern, each of which is the leading team in at least one ZIP code."

You'd think that they'd be mentioned there, when they were discussing those zips...

Hi Lair E Moose.

So the New York Times, the Grey Lady, the most reputable newspaper in the land, is trying to tell me that in ALL the zip codes surrounding the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and in ALL the zip codes in Minneapolis proper, and in ALL the zip codes housing University of Minnesota students, that the University of Wisconsin is the most popular college football team?

Mind. Blown.

Or more realistically, using Facebook likes is a piss poor way of deigning Football Fandom.

(10-03-2014 09:59 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  Hi Lair E Moose.

So the New York Times, the Grey Lady, the most reputable newspaper in the land, is trying to tell me that in ALL the zip codes surrounding the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and in ALL the zip codes in Minneapolis proper, and in ALL the zip codes housing University of Minnesota students, that the University of Wisconsin is the most popular college football team?

Mind. Blown.

Or more realistically, using Facebook likes is a piss poor way of deigning Football Fandom.

It's the laziest way, though!

I like this one better:

https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook...1197%3B755

(10-03-2014 09:59 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  Hi Lair E Moose.

So the New York Times, the Grey Lady, the most reputable newspaper in the land, is trying to tell me that in ALL the zip codes surrounding the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and in ALL the zip codes in Minneapolis proper, and in ALL the zip codes housing University of Minnesota students, that the University of Wisconsin is the most popular college football team?

Mind. Blown.

Or more realistically, using Facebook likes is a piss poor way of deigning Football Fandom.

I don't think its a piss poor way. Is it the *most* accurate way? Perhaps not, but directionally speaking I bet its pretty close.

Anyone who is offended by this is just delusional. This is exactly how i would have imagined it.

(10-03-2014 03:43 PM)huskiealum03 Wrote:  Anyone who is offended by this is just delusional. This is exactly how i would have imagined it.

NIU deserves to be mentioned when talking about the Chicago market.

(10-03-2014 03:59 PM)Enaiu Wrote:  

(10-03-2014 03:43 PM)huskiealum03 Wrote:  Anyone who is offended by this is just delusional. This is exactly how i would have imagined it.

NIU deserves to be mentioned when talking about the Chicago market.

Not really. If you look at the zip codes we aren't in the top three in any of them. I'd be surprised if we have 1% of the fan base in Chicago zips.

(10-03-2014 03:59 PM)Enaiu Wrote:  

(10-03-2014 03:43 PM)huskiealum03 Wrote:  Anyone who is offended by this is just delusional. This is exactly how i would have imagined it.

NIU deserves to be mentioned when talking about the Chicago market.

the chicago isn't just UofI, Notre Dame, Northwestern and NIU. It includes basically most of the big10 schools you can think of.

Iowa
Wisconsin
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Purdue

The Chicago market is a major metropolis that sits right in the middle of the big 10, and a ton of those alumni live in this area. We do get mentioned, but the pie is so divided that we lose attention by this simple attrition.

(10-03-2014 09:37 AM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  Idiots.

Why? Because they don't see it your way? Read some of the posts that follow yours from armour248 and huskiealum03 and tell me they're wrong.
We've got to stop dismissing every article that comes along and presents a viewpoint that isn't seen through our Huskie-colored eyes. That article, as seeds99 points out, does include us; we are in it. We're understandably proud of the NIU supporters showing up in numbers in Evanston, yet we argue about how to increase our home attendance --- market Chicago more, focus on the DeKalb/Sycamore backyard, try harder in Rockford, or Naperville-Aurora, etc. --- but an article like this doesn't sound right?

We won the DeKalb, IL market...for whatever that's worth

It's great to be on the map though. That's something most G5 schools can't lay claim to. Being someone that wants to see the MAC (and G5 in general) supported more, it's disgusting that cities like Akron, OH show up as:

12% Akron Zips
63% Ohio State Buckeyes