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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I still find it worthwhile. But then I read lots of stories about other teams and the NHL in general.
Is this a hockey thing that fans are only interested in their hometown team? Because my sense is most people who are NFL fans follow the league. They watch a lot of games their team isn’t in, follow NFL insiders, and subscribe to sites like the Athletic to read stories about players and coaches on other teams.
I wonder what the breakdown is of a hardcore Denver sports fan reading/watching Broncos content vs other NFL teams. Safe to say the other NFL teams side of the equation would be higher than the other NHL teams side of the equation for an Avs fan?
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My experience down in the states is that historically football fans were no different in obsessing over their own team and their rivals and not caring much about the rest of the league. However, that all changed with fantasy football. Just about any serious fan I know is in multiple FF leagues. So that means they have players from just about every team on at least one of their rosters and can have an interest in just about any game for that reason.
As someone that has never lived in a pro sports city, I have never been as invested in a specific team and so I do find interest in a lot of the league wide articles that the Athletic was putting out. I subscribed for a year but found myself just not having the time to keep up interest in sports due to having young children. It had nothing to do with the quality of the product though; I don't even bother to watch live sports much so I am not their prime demographic at this point in my life.