Are You Ready for Some Football?

 If you are reading my blog I am assuming you are a sports fan. If not, humor me as I take local, national and world news and combine it with college sports to show you the impact that any news can have on college athletics.

If you live in California, Texas, New York, Florida or Pennsylvania, you know what it’s like to cheer for college football. Not to say any other state doesn't, but these are the powerhouses. When USC went on its run through college football in the 2000's some celebrities couldn't even get tickets to see the games. Remember when Syracuse made their run through the college basketball ranks with Carmelo Anthony? Madison Square Garden was returned to the glory days of Ewing. Florida went on the run with Tim Tebow and almost won 3 National Championships in 4 years and Florida, Florida State and Miami all were in the top 5 in the country for a 10-year span in the 90's. Penn State has Joe Pa and Texas has their beloved Longhorns and Aggies. These colleges have combined for several National Championships and some of the most memorable games in college football history. Although most of these programs are coming off sub-par seasons, fans still pack the stadiums. I wondered how and really why fans could and would still attend these games and came up with two answers. The why is simply because of tradition. Going to any one of these stadiums is like being at the hottest nightclub to be seen at. Even waiting in line to get in might get you a high five. These arenas are palaces dedicated to our modern day gladiators. The why is easy. The how? That's actually kind of easy to answer if you reside in any of these States, because of disposable personal income. No other States in the United States have more disposable income than these five along with Illinois.

All the schools I mentioned, USC, Florida, Florida State, Miami, Penn State, Texas and Texas A&M not only have championship winning football teams, high profile coaches and beautiful stadiums, but the residents of the States have the disposable income to be in the seats. So next time you go to a game in Wyoming and you are looking around to see only a few hundred of your fans in the seats and say for example 10,000 Texas fans, you can rest assured that it may not be that people don't care about the team, just the fact that your State has the second lowest disposable income in the United States.

All data is according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis