I sat at Christmas with a person that is an avid sports fan that has no allegiances. They don't understand how I got so riled up about the ISU / Miami game. He just likes to watch exciting sport of all sorts and doesn't get all riled up.
I explained to him that makes him a sports observer, not a fan. He does not understand my point of view at all.
He is one of the people that would continue to watch the super league. He wouldn't like it, but he would continue to watch it. I told him I would NEVER watch anything in that league becuase it has nothing to do with any team that I cheer for and he found that odd.
There are different people out there. I'd just like to know the actual marketing research that has been done on the casual fan and the one that is attached to all the other NCAA schools BECAUSE of the school they choose to root for. I honestly don't know what those percentages would be, but I would like to know.
It's wild those kinds of people outnumber real fans. In my life I know maybe one of them for every ten avid fans of a team or teams.
I'll only tune in to see a blue blood team if they have some generational talent or some underdog is beating them...and it's just as often those talents aren't on the blue blood teams.
I cannot imagine thinking "oh the Alabama football brand makes me feel good, I want to watch that brand vs another brand Ohio State that makes me feel good, I'd never want to see Arizona State win anything". But I guess that's a majority of sports viewers.