Comments on: Is Football an Eastern (U.S.) Sport? http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/ Entrepreneurial Leadership and Management . . . and Other Stuff Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Will http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-56322 Will Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:04:11 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-56322 Dave, Well, it's obvious . . . the NFC has won the coin toss because they need the most help. The AFC is better and God is cutting the NFC a break. Duh. I agree that it's mostly random, although I think there must be some reason for it. It's not like I'm picking non-contiguous years. There are decades when a single team is dominant which can bias the results - you certainly can call the Patriots that with three Super Bowls in the selected period and the Steelers with two. My guess is that divisions, in which teams play each other two times a piece, create a micro-competitive environment that influence the investments made by all teams in that division. If one team invests heavily in building a high quality team, the other teams in that division follow suit. Perhaps over the last decade, a couple of eastern divisions had such internal competitions. The fact that more than one eastern division went through this at the same time, is totally random. Dave,

Well, it’s obvious . . . the NFC has won the coin toss because they need the most help. The AFC is better and God is cutting the NFC a break. Duh.

I agree that it’s mostly random, although I think there must be some reason for it. It’s not like I’m picking non-contiguous years. There are decades when a single team is dominant which can bias the results – you certainly can call the Patriots that with three Super Bowls in the selected period and the Steelers with two.

My guess is that divisions, in which teams play each other two times a piece, create a micro-competitive environment that influence the investments made by all teams in that division. If one team invests heavily in building a high quality team, the other teams in that division follow suit. Perhaps over the last decade, a couple of eastern divisions had such internal competitions. The fact that more than one eastern division went through this at the same time, is totally random.

]]> By: Will http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-106579 Will Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:04:00 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-106579 Dave, Well, it's obvious . . . the NFC has won the coin toss because they need the most help. The AFC is better and God is cutting the NFC a break. Duh. I agree that it's mostly random, although I think there must be some reason for it. It's not like I'm picking non-contiguous years. There are decades when a single team is dominant which can bias the results - you certainly can call the Patriots that with three Super Bowls in the selected period and the Steelers with two. My guess is that divisions, in which teams play each other two times a piece, create a micro-competitive environment that influence the investments made by all teams in that division. If one team invests heavily in building a high quality team, the other teams in that division follow suit. Perhaps over the last decade, a couple of eastern divisions had such internal competitions. The fact that more than one eastern division went through this at the same time, is totally random. Dave,

Well, it’s obvious . . . the NFC has won the coin toss because they need the most help. The AFC is better and God is cutting the NFC a break. Duh.

I agree that it’s mostly random, although I think there must be some reason for it. It’s not like I’m picking non-contiguous years. There are decades when a single team is dominant which can bias the results – you certainly can call the Patriots that with three Super Bowls in the selected period and the Steelers with two.

My guess is that divisions, in which teams play each other two times a piece, create a micro-competitive environment that influence the investments made by all teams in that division. If one team invests heavily in building a high quality team, the other teams in that division follow suit. Perhaps over the last decade, a couple of eastern divisions had such internal competitions. The fact that more than one eastern division went through this at the same time, is totally random.

]]> By: Will http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-56321 Will Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:53:30 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-56321 Alan, Yeah, I totally agree that it's not about dominance and it really doesn't mean anything. I'm just taking advantage of the situation to get back at all my west coast "friends" who gave me a hard time for so many years about western versus eastern sports. No question that college sports are much more polarizing. Like you say, especially in the south. Alan,

Yeah, I totally agree that it’s not about dominance and it really doesn’t mean anything. I’m just taking advantage of the situation to get back at all my west coast “friends” who gave me a hard time for so many years about western versus eastern sports.

No question that college sports are much more polarizing. Like you say, especially in the south.

]]> By: Will http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-106578 Will Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:53:00 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-106578 Alan, Yeah, I totally agree that it's not about dominance and it really doesn't mean anything. I'm just taking advantage of the situation to get back at all my west coast "friends" who gave me a hard time for so many years about western versus eastern sports. No question that college sports are much more polarizing. Like you say, especially in the south. Alan,

Yeah, I totally agree that it’s not about dominance and it really doesn’t mean anything. I’m just taking advantage of the situation to get back at all my west coast “friends” who gave me a hard time for so many years about western versus eastern sports.

No question that college sports are much more polarizing. Like you say, especially in the south.

]]> By: Dave http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-56301 Dave Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:10:52 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-56301 Per Al Michaels, in the last ten (actually 12) Super Bowls the NFC has won the coin toss. Why has the NFC dominated the coin toss like that? The east coast dominance is an interesting pattern but unless there is a particular causal relationship it's just a random pattern resulting from your choice of years. Per Al Michaels, in the last ten (actually 12) Super Bowls the NFC has won the coin toss. Why has the NFC dominated the coin toss like that?

The east coast dominance is an interesting pattern but unless there is a particular causal relationship it’s just a random pattern resulting from your choice of years.

]]> By: Dave http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-106577 Dave Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:10:00 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-106577 Per Al Michaels, in the last ten (actually 12) Super Bowls the NFC has won the coin toss. Why has the NFC dominated the coin toss like that? The east coast dominance is an interesting pattern but unless there is a particular causal relationship it's just a random pattern resulting from your choice of years. Per Al Michaels, in the last ten (actually 12) Super Bowls the NFC has won the coin toss. Why has the NFC dominated the coin toss like that?

The east coast dominance is an interesting pattern but unless there is a particular causal relationship it’s just a random pattern resulting from your choice of years.

]]> By: alan shimel http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-56260 alan shimel Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:44:03 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-56260 Will - interesting trend, but stats can show lots of interesting things. Another interesting thing about Super Bowls this decade is that they have all been pretty close (OK the Ravens killed the Giants). When you look at the teams that came up just a little short, but made it to the big game, some of them are Seattle, Arizona, St Louis, Chicago and Oakland (I dont remember the rest). Not eastern teams per se. I think this stuff evens out over time. What I do think is that in the Southern US there is a big difference between college and pro football. I was listening to a guy from Georgia, now living in Florida last week. He was talking about those crazy pro football fans from NY, NE and Philly. He said, those guys love their pro teams almost as much as we love our college football teams. That summed it up for me. Will – interesting trend, but stats can show lots of interesting things. Another interesting thing about Super Bowls this decade is that they have all been pretty close (OK the Ravens killed the Giants). When you look at the teams that came up just a little short, but made it to the big game, some of them are Seattle, Arizona, St Louis, Chicago and Oakland (I dont remember the rest). Not eastern teams per se. I think this stuff evens out over time.

What I do think is that in the Southern US there is a big difference between college and pro football. I was listening to a guy from Georgia, now living in Florida last week. He was talking about those crazy pro football fans from NY, NE and Philly. He said, those guys love their pro teams almost as much as we love our college football teams. That summed it up for me.

]]> By: alan shimel http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-106576 alan shimel Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:44:00 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2009/02/is-football-an-eastern-us-sport/#comment-106576 Will - interesting trend, but stats can show lots of interesting things. Another interesting thing about Super Bowls this decade is that they have all been pretty close (OK the Ravens killed the Giants). When you look at the teams that came up just a little short, but made it to the big game, some of them are Seattle, Arizona, St Louis, Chicago and Oakland (I dont remember the rest). Not eastern teams per se. I think this stuff evens out over time. What I do think is that in the Southern US there is a big difference between college and pro football. I was listening to a guy from Georgia, now living in Florida last week. He was talking about those crazy pro football fans from NY, NE and Philly. He said, those guys love their pro teams almost as much as we love our college football teams. That summed it up for me. Will – interesting trend, but stats can show lots of interesting things. Another interesting thing about Super Bowls this decade is that they have all been pretty close (OK the Ravens killed the Giants). When you look at the teams that came up just a little short, but made it to the big game, some of them are Seattle, Arizona, St Louis, Chicago and Oakland (I dont remember the rest). Not eastern teams per se. I think this stuff evens out over time.

What I do think is that in the Southern US there is a big difference between college and pro football. I was listening to a guy from Georgia, now living in Florida last week. He was talking about those crazy pro football fans from NY, NE and Philly. He said, those guys love their pro teams almost as much as we love our college football teams. That summed it up for me.

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