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Originally Posted by Monkeydad
Market size. Media and pro sports market.
If it were a bigger sports market, we'd still have the Charlotte Hornets. No one (nationally) cared about the Panthers until Cam Newton arrived.
There's no way anyone can claim that DC isn't considered one of the busiest media towns in the nation, up there with NYC and LA.
Charlotte is small potatoes.
The QB of the Redskins is always a big headline-grabber, even with bad and mediocre QBs. Look how much attention McNabb drew from the national media when he came to town. It's going be that times infinity when RG3 suits up.
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This is very weird sports media market. It's football and quarterback specific, as you've pointed out. For a team that has been a perennial loser over the past 15-20 years, we probably garner as much national attention as any team in the NFL. In part, because of the team's rich legacy and also due to Dan Snyder's splurging during free agency.
03-12-2012, 06:31 PM
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