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Huntington Park, Columbus (AAA #22 - Why I don't care about football)

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  Huntington Park, with the view of   the Columbus skyline. Nationwide Arena, home of the NHL Blue Jackets, is visible beyond the concourse to the left. In some of the cities where we’ve seen AAA games, minor league baseball is the biggest sport in town. That’s definitely not the case in Columbus, where there are two teams in the top tier professional league of their sport, which both play their home games within a few blocks of the Clippers' stadium. However, the team that draws the most spectators each year is not the AAA Clippers, not the NHL Blue Jackets, not the MLS Crew. It’s the Ohio State Buckeyes, the local university football team (see the table below). But while we go to about 50 professional baseball games per year, I haven’t been to a college football game since sometime in the mid-90s, when I went to the first three quarters of a game in which a friend of our son’s was on a youth team playing at halftime, and I haven’t been to an NFL game since somet...
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On the road (Where are the White Sox fans?)

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  Rate Field, 30 minutes before game time. In fairness, this was taken on a day when the start would end up being delayed by an hour, but even the next night, the crowd was only 11,000. That's not Florida bad, but it's bad. When my family moved to western Illinois in the 1960s, I found that the friends I made were split in their baseball loyalties. Many were fans of the St. Louis Cardinals. Many were fans of the Chicago Cubs. I had one friend who was a fan of the Chicago White Sox. At the time, I wondered why Mike would choose to be a White Sox fan, when no one else was. But perhaps a better question would have been why no one else was. The White Sox have been not very good for a very long time. After a World Series win in 1917, their next one was in 2005. On the other hand, the Cubs were worse, going more than a century between championship. Recently, the Cubs have definitely been better – at least they haven’t set a major league record for losses in a single ...
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