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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Again, I'm only going on the article I linked but it's not talking about teams' success but attendance figures.
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Its because in very recent years both the Marlins and the Dolphins have sucked, which drains attendance, but less than ten years ago both were some of the hottest teams in their respective sports. American sports is fickle like that, people bandwagon even their own life-long teams, only diehards attend games when the teams are in losing/rebuild mode. Attendance alone doesn't reflect a cities sports culture and support, you have to look at other figures like TV ratings and merchandise sales too. Further, only LA can New York could probably top Miami in the number of sports bars hosting games every night of the week. And of course the Miami Heat not only were the most successful home-team attendance in the NBA, they were the most successfull road-team averaging 19,000 sold-out attendance at ALL of the 41 road games
