thavoice;1646427 wrote:I base the steelers on the list soley because of the amount of fans they have at many away games.
At steelers games you dont see many opposing teams jerseys, but when I have went on the road to Indy, Cincy, Cleveland and Tennessee for steelers games they had a very, very good following.
I only went to 2 steelers games last year, 1 home and then the MNF in Cincy, which is a little less than normal (usually make any home playoff game) but yeah...their home attendance wasnt that great although they still sold out each game. Buddy just got notice this summer he is close for season tix in the new addition they are putting up in the open endzone and he had been waiting since the late 90's. WHen my other friend got his he was on the waiting list for 12+ years.
Not questioning that they have a lot of fans but I will say this....we've been hitting casinos in WV, Pittsburgh & Erie for almost two years now. Those, for the most part, are considered Steeler "territory" with maybe the exception of Erie being heavily weighted toward Bills fans. A
t the beginning of the year, those joints are infested with Steelers gear, t-shirts, jerseys, the whole enchillada. By week 4, last year, NOTHING. All of the gear was gone but when they started to make a run towards the end of the year it magically reappeared. This wasn't an anomaly because we hit the casinos a lot on game day. The year before wasn't much better.
