Even before '72 the Fins have had a stranglehold on sports in South Florida (and much of Florida too). Even with Marino gone and a couple of new teams in town, they still dominated the press and airwaves.

But it seems that now, the World Series champions and Shaq's Heat are pushing them all the way back to 3rd in the SoFla sports world. Granted, having two sucky QBs and a lousy offense doesn't help, but does anybody else find this completely odd. Wayne is probably having a hard time sleeping.

dont make a mistake, the dolphins are more popular than the marlins.

 

 

trust me, the dolphins havnt won a championship in 20+ years , yet they get almost 2 monday night football games and 1 or 2 sunday night games, and have the number 4 or 5 selling football jersey(ricky)

You mean the Marlins are being push to third.Dolphins are the most popular team in S.Florida period.

Guys, studies have been done and it has always been (since 1993)

1) Dolphins

2) Marlins

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3) Heat

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4) Panthers

The NFL is just more popular than the MLB. That's all there is to it. Not to mention they've been there much longer to build a sturdy fan base.

The Dolphins popularity is based on 3 things.

 

1) The Perfect Season

2) They are the Mighty Miami Dolphins

3) The alumni are incredible (Marino, Marks Brothers, Shula, etc.) and the Dolphins milk it for every drop it is worth.

at the marlins game last friday a bunch stupid people were saying in the last innings "wow this team is horrible. I cant believe i wasted money on this. a little league team can do better" and other s***.

 

i get s*** from people now almost on a daily basis because of the marlins struggles despite them being world champions and still in a playoff race.

 

a couple of months back Dolphins MINI CAMP was the top story on one of the sunday night sports shows even though the Marlins played that same day.

 

no the Dolphins have not slipped to 3rd or even 2nd. i said in another thread that for the time being they slipped to 2nd behind the Heat for the time being but that will change come training camp.

If the NBA started their season in a month, Heat would be the flavor of the moment...kind of like the Marlins last October.

 

It's beyond words, but the Dolphins popularity down here transcends sports...they seem to get at least two articles a day from the collective media, and if NFL players were more marketeable as individuals...I don't think it would be even close. The Heat now have one of the top 5 most marketeable players in all of sports (active players), so that helps them, but once the Dolphins get a few games going 100% of all sports talk will revolve around the 'fins. Sad...but true.

I dont know, maybe they people I talk to just don't care, but it seems like interest in the Fins this year is the lowest I've seen in sometime.

1st-miami dolphins ...even if they dont win for 20 years

2nd-now the heat unless shaq gets hurt or they suck

3rd-Marlins..till we get a stadium and another good player that people wanna see..

In ten years Miami will be baseball first basketball second.

 

Book it.

For me it will always be:

 

1)Dolphins

2)Marlins

3)UM

and a far 4)Heat because I know little of basketball.

No hockey in my list, last I guess would've been the soccer team but they're gone.

The reason the Dolphins are #1 is that even up here in Palm Beach County there are still Ricky Williams and Chris Chambers billboards with the whole "we're ready" thing. You don't see the Marlins or Heat or Panthers (although when they had Bure there were a lot of billboards up here too) have the same presence anywhere outside of Miami. Even with the Marlins and Heat having about half of their fan-base coming from up here, they generally ignore the area's fans; the Dolphins sort of try to make themselves Florida's team, they don't just take it for granted.

Just wait until the season starts, then you will see the usual non stop coverage

well, when i was in ft.laturdale last weekend, i saw beckett billboards.

i believe theres a Juan Pierre Billboard on Okeechobee road.

 

for me it will always be 1)Dolphins/Marlins/Heat

 

 

not really a big hockey fan so i wont include the panthers in my list.

i believe theres a Juan Pierre Billboard on Okeechobee road.

 

for me it will always be 1)Dolphins/Marlins/Heat

 

 

not really a big hockey fan so i wont include the panthers in my list.

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There is not a Marlins anything on Okeechobee in West Palm. I have yet to see anything Marlins related north of Ft. Lauderdale (print advertisements excluded).

i believe theres a Juan Pierre Billboard on Okeechobee road.

 

for me it will always be 1)Dolphins/Marlins/Heat

 

 

not really a big hockey fan so i wont include the panthers in my list.

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There is not a Marlins anything on Okeechobee in West Palm. I have yet to see anything Marlins related north of Ft. Lauderdale (print advertisements excluded).

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my bad, i didnt realize you were talking about north of dade.

its funny, here in orlando they had some buildings in downtown with t-mac, howard and lue banners.....and i could have sworn i drove by 2 weeks ago, and they were still up.

make no mistake, popularity wise, the dolphins are #1 in miami

why you ask? because theyre an nfl team. its that easy

make no mistake, popularity wise, the dolphins are #1 in miami

why you ask? because theyre an nfl team. its that easy

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So you are saying the Patriots are more popular in Boston than the Red Sox?

Jets over the Yankees?

Rams over the Cardinals?

 

NFL is going to get passed soon enough in popularity. It's inevitable.

make no mistake, popularity wise, the dolphins are #1 in miami

why you ask? because theyre an nfl team. its that easy

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So you are saying the Patriots are more popular in Boston than the Red Sox?

Jets over the Yankees?

Rams over the Cardinals?

 

NFL is going to get passed soon enough in popularity. It's inevitable.

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Not neccesarily Juanky the towns you just named were traditionally bad teams the past few decades.. Look at the Dolphins, they get people going to every game rain or shine but no matter what the Marlins do, it seems only us hardcore fans go.

Two of the teams I mentioned have long histories in the NFL

Fine, maybe the Jets aren't the best of teams, but the Giants have been good for a while. Who do you think New York loves more? The Giants and the Jets or the Yankees and the Mets? (Yes, I made it rhyme on purpose)

 

What about Chicago? The Bears are a long storied team. But I would bet if there wasn't the pure hatred amongst the two Chicago teams, if there was a choice of which two teams to keep alive in the city in any sport it would be White Sox and Cubs.

 

What about Seattle? Baltimore? Cincy? Cleveland?

 

It might seem on the surface that football has the edge, but I believe this is just American society's lack of an attention span (which actually doesn't make too much sense, because if you look at it closely, it takes about the same amount of time between plays in baseball and football with the exception of the two minute drill) and the barbarous nature of the public. However, cities are far more passionate about thier baseball teams in most cases than thier football teams. Miami I believe is the exception, not the rule, and this has alot to do with lack of history.

cleveland is football baby, and you know it.

All of the northeast and new york, football ranks below baseball and basketball. And some places, hockey.

 

In the mid-atlantic it's more evenly split, especially in Pittsburgh I've found. Philadelphia it's the Eagles, but consider that the Phillies were the worst team in baseball for a long long time and Philly fans have supported all their winning teams. When I was growing up in DC basketball was on par with football (and those were the Joe Gibbs and Hogs years!). You can't compare baseball, because even if they had a team, most baseball fans stick with thier hometown teams and like South Florida the home population is outnumbered by transplants. O's in Baltimore, but the Colts move turned a lot of fans off.

 

In the south, it's football followed by spring football. Probably NASCAR tied with flag football after that.

 

Don't know about the midwest, seems more of a baseball area than football.