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Originally Posted by demonrail666
On the Dolphins thing again, I did some more checking and they apparently have the 2nd biggest fanbase in the UK after the Patriots. Considering how successful the Patriots have been since the 80s compared with the Dolphins that's pretty remarkable. I don't know how popular they are in the US but I'd be amazed if they're anything like the 2nd most popular team there.
" Of NFLUK.com site users who have registered and selected their favorite team, 7.1 percent said that the Dolphins were the favorite team. Only the New England Patriots had more fans on the site with 9.5 percent."
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/he...ngland-6526446 |
Patriots have only been successful since the early 2000s..
as to Dolphins, even when Dan Marino was balling it up they have never been a nationally popular team. its largely because Marino never won a championship. Dolphins were like the Cleveland Browns, a very successful team that just could never get it done. Same was true of Denver Broncos until Elway finally won in late 90s. the national audience knew of these teams because of their failures not their success
really Lebron was the first guy to finally put Miami on the map as a national team, previously Miami teams had been successful and were known but actual fans across the country were more of a cult following unlike teams like Steelers, 9ers, Cowboys, or Raiders who are definitely teams with significant national fanbase and a certain sense of NFL heritage.
Today Dolphins of the past five or six years have been one of the laughing stock teams, a punchline rather than a team that punches back. Indeed most Americans actually think NFL sends Dolphins to London because they suck since a lot of the teams on London schedule sucked. i used to think that until you explained the Dolphins fanbase in UK