Re: [nas] Resurrecting the Florida debate

Title: Re: [nas] Resurrecting the Florida debate

Good point Darren, let’s go with that a little farther. 

Using this logic, you also don’t put a team in South Florida because there are a lot of Hispanics, Cubans, etc. living there who like football. They too already have their own allegiances. 

Tourism is good for maybe 1,000 tickets or so in walk-up traffic. Demographics of the people who live there (potential season ticket holders), corporate sponsorship availabilities (only one pro team to compete with for these dollars) and competition from other pro and college sports teams (the aforementioned Magic plus UCF and what else?) are far more important factors.

I think extending the point to the West Coast might be a bit of a reach though.


On 8/11/06 3:01 PM, "Darrin Howells" <casbahman@adelphia.net> wrote:

I'm not sure I'd equate tourism with fans.  One reason Florida has problems supporting their sports teams is because there are a lot of east coast transplants there.  East coasters tend to continue supporting the teams they rooted for before they retired and moved south.  So when they move to Florida, they'll continue rooting for the Yankees, Red Sox, Jets, etc.  That is why the Marlins always market based on their opponents (i.e. "Come see the Marlins when Boston comes to town", etc).  You see this to an extent on the west coast too with so many out-of-staters who have moved out here.  
 
Now, as you point out in your post, 20 years from now things will look a lot different.  But I don't know that tourism will do a lot for a sports franchise.  

 
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Orlando with all its tourism and being located where it is, would be an  ideal spot for a soccer or any other sports team. The way its growing, in 20  years it looks like it could be the biggest metro area in Florida and I  suspect that come 2025, there will be a team in all sports there, with the  possible exception of the NFL seeing how its almost in the halfway point  between Jacksonville and Tampa Bay
 
 
 
CJ

>>> "C. Lee Smith" <cleesmith@matchnight.com>  08/11/06 10:20 AM >>>
 
A team in Florida should have been and still should be  located in Orlando – even if Disney is not involved.

 

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