The Big Apple Is Not as Big As It Thinks

We hear this all the time that all of the news media people live in the New York area because that is where every thing that is important in the world of news or even sports happens.  Yes New York has 13 million that live in the five Boroughs of New York and another seven million live in the so call New York Metro Area.

If there are 320 million people living in this country and 20 million live in New York that is one out of every sixteen  or about six % of the people.  If you have all that many then when it comes to buying product you would think anything related to New York would dominant the landscape.

The NFL released their top selling football jersey list and lo and behold there  is only one player from New York in the ten.  Before I start with the list close your eyes and who in 2011 sold the most Jersey's.  The answer is the hottest player in the NFL.  Aaron Rodgers

Last year at this time no one was yet thinking the Packers would win the Super Bowl.  Wait a minute Green Bay is a city in Wisconson with a population of 104,0000 and they have a player that his  jersey out sells Eli Manning and Mark Sanchez combined.  What happened to all that New York was the place to be stuff.

#2 on the list is Tim Tebow a city of  who plays in Denver a city of 600,000 and for an  average team.  He goes around speaking religion and the news media and liberal types hate.   So why is he so high up on the list of got to have jersies?  Must be that regardless of what people in this country are told by others what they are suppose to think, people still like what they see  and they like Tim Tebow.

#3 Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers.  Does anyone see a trend here? Pittsburgh a city of 305,00  has a player that his helmet can't hold all his hair.  Who needs a team in LA?

#4 Drew Brees:  He plays for a team New Orleans that the city practically got wiped off the map just six years ago by a hurricane.  A mere 346,000 people live in the city of Bourbon street.

#5Tom Brady:  The so call best quarterback in the 21st Century of the NFL is the first player that comes from the so called Northeast corridor.  Boston the Capital of New England still has only 620,000 in the city of Boston.

#6 Clay Matthews:  What number does he wear for the Green Bay Packers. He plays on the Super Bowl champs from last year and 100 million watched last year's Super Bowl. So the Packers have a defensive player in the top ten.

#7 Michael Vick: I guess Philadelphia is the Northeast corridor but really New York is nines time bigger than Philly.

#8 Eli Manning:  Finally  someone from the big city makes the cut.  How many times bigger than Green Bay is New York ?  190 times bigger and yet the top jersey producer in the Big Apple is 8th and Green Bay has two players ahead the top seller from New York

#9 Tony Romo:  He plays for America's team.  It must be America's team only in the eyes of those folks in Dallas.  If Dallas was really America's team he'd be #1. Dallas is the city of two million that puts in as the second biggest of cities in this top ten.

#10  Miles Allston:  To me this is a shocker.  He is only one position behind America's quarterback. 

What does this top ten tell me.  The NFL is America's sport.  We as fans don't need some expert telling me who is good, I can judge for myself and America knows what they like and when they like it  they buy regardless if some expert who tells you different.