The Ultimate Bears Fan, well, at least his skin says so

August 10, 2010

It is hard to argue with the compelling argument that Glenn Timmerman’s flesh makes that he is the biggest Chicago Bears fan ever.

We would love to talk with this guy here at ThatFan.com, so, we are officially putting out the call to the millions out there.

Have him send Dr. Venkman an e-mail.

The Bears weren’t part of the recent Forbes Magazine Report on the top fan bases in America (#1 Boston Red Sox, #2 Pittsburgh Steelers, #3 Detroit Red Wings, #4 Indianapolis Colts, #5 New England Patriots, #6 Pittsburgh Penguins, #7 Boston Celtics, #8 San Antonio Spurs, #9 Dallas Cowboys, #10 St. Louis Cardinals, #11 Montreal Canadiens, #12 Los Angles Lakers, #13 Cleveland Cavaliers – we’ll see for how long – #14 New York Yankees, #15 Philadelphia Phillies), but there was no measurement on the amount of ink that fans have, so that may have pushed them higher.

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Market Research Reveals Interesting Numbers About Fans – This is Your Brain on Sports

April 19, 2010

The Sports Business Research Network released some of their findings of the Sports Fan Market for 2010 last week, and there are a bunch of reasons why none of us have girlfriends.

Overall, the stats of the study were derived from the responses of 12,000 consumers ages 16 and up around the nation. Fourteen sports were measured in total.

According to the study:

• More than 110 million fans viewed or attended a National Football League game in 2009.

• 19 million sports fans spent $2,025,867,000 on purchases of Major League Baseball licensed apparel. Forty-five percent of those purchasing made some or all of their purchases at a stadium.

• Of college basketball fans that attended a game, 68 percent of those fans attended more than one game.

• 3.8 million fans watched a college football game on their computer.

• One-third of purchasers of licensed golf apparel are in the 50-64 age group.

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Jets Fan Still Pissed About Patriots’ “Spygate”

April 15, 2010

Even though we are a few years after the fact, there is at least one fan of the Green Machine, Carl Mayer, that still has a gripe about a playoff game that his team would have lost anyway.

His argument actually kind of makes sense too, unlike his devotion to the team that thought it would be a good idea to pay and play a one-armed Brett Favre in the middle of a playoff run. Oral arguments are scheduled to begin on Wednesday at the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia according to the Associated Press.

The suit was filed by a Jets season ticket holder who also is an attorney in New Jersey, and it claims the Patriots’ actions “violated the contractual expectations and rights of New York Jets ticket-holders” who paid to watch a game played in compliance with the league’s rules. -David Porter of the Associated Press

There are some serious money figures being calculated in this argument too…LeBron James Free Agent Serious. The suit calculated that because customers paid $61.6 million to watch eight “fraudulent” games, they should be refunded triple that amount — or $184.8 million — under racketeering and consumer fraud laws.

The case was thrown out in March 2009 by U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown Jr. in Trenton.

That was before Mayer’s co-counsel, Bruce Afran threw out this zinger: “People pay hundreds of dollars for tickets and expect a fair game,” Afran said. “It’s not professional wrestling, where you know it’s rigged.”

In other sports fan news:

Adult Film Star/Sports Fan Katie Michaels will Miss the NHL Playoffs [Yahoo]

Make sure you fill out your 2010 Sports Fan Census [ESPN]

FBI looking into brutal beating of Maryland Fan after win over Duke [The Sun]

The Worst Ticket in Sports (is for a Celtics Game) [Eagle Tribune]

Five Reasons Why Being a Nationals Fan is Bearable [Univ. of Richmond Newspaper]

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Major League Baseball Catches the National Football League in Fan Loyalty

March 30, 2010

For the first time since 2004 research by BrandKeys, which is the World Leader in Customer Loyalty and Engagment Metrics, has determined that Major League Baseball has caught the National Football League in fan loyalty.

The company – which is based in Madrid, Sydney, and New York among others – just released its 15th annual Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Winners. The titlests are those brands best able to engage consumers and create loyal customers. Initiated in 1997, the Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index is fielded annually in the spring and fall. The current Index examines customers’ relationships with 518 brands in 71 categories.

Last year, the NFL was No. 1, the NBA No. 2, with Major League Baseball checking in at No. 3 in fan loyalty. Since 2005 the order of loyalty went NFL-NBA-MLB-NHL (2010 Awards – Not just sports either…check out the cereal rankings for the 2010 ThatFan Breakfast Cereal Bracket…’09 Awards, ’08 Awards, ’07 Awards, ’06 Awards, ’05 Awards, ’04 Awards – last time MLB and NFL were equals.)

The Red Sox, Colts, Spurs, and Red Wings led the way in loyalty in the four major sports according to BrandKeys, while the Pirates, Raiders, Bobcats and Thrashers were the bottom feeders seen here.

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