One reason why Auburn football is worth so much money (millions more than Bama football if you recall)? Maybe because Auburn football fans are the most loyal in the country. Like, officially.
That’s not just according to a new assistant coach getting off an airplane or an athletics department press release. No, that’s coming from Rasmussen Reports. Maybe you’ve heard of it.
This past fall, Rasmussen pollsters asked college football fans how much they care about their team, how much it means to them, the role it plays in their lives. You’ll never guess which conference beat out all the others in the four categories “used to measure the strength of their super fandom.” Here’s a hint: Seven national championships in a row.
SEC fans found it “somewhat or very important” to watch their team play every week, something fans of the Big 12 apparently don’t care about. SEC fans pay attention to their teams even when they’re terrible. And they wear tons of officially licensed team apparel while they’re doing it.
But take a certain team from Alabama out of the SEC average and the results might be significantly different. Nope, not that team. The good guys.
From FoxBusiness.com:
As a charter member of the SEC, it’s no wonder that Auburn placed first among schools when Rasmussen and Discovers rank teams individually. The top five groups of super fans follow:
Auburn
Nebraska
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Iowa
Yep, Auburn is the only SEC team in the Super Fans Top Five.
It’s like finding actual, scientific proof that you really are the best kid in the world, just like your parents always told you.
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The most loyal fans? The same fans that left before halftime during the UGA game at home? Ok.. if you say so.
Being an Auburn fan doesn’t just apply to football. We love our school! We are family. Right now I am wearing my favorite AU shirt that says, “It’s an Auburn thing, you wouldn’t understand.” The AU spirit is something that can’t be explained. You just have to experience it.
I second what Gail Justice said.
Reality (if that is your REAL name), just imagine how many more fans from other schools would have left. I mean, would fans from other schools have even ATTENDED the game of a 2-7 team?
Gail ~ WORD.
Unless you’ve been there you wouldn’t understand Reality. Doesn’t mean we can’t complain, but our love of Auburn is not all about football.
Gail nailed it. To say we’re not loyal because fans leave a game at halftime is nonsense. There isn’t a fan base out there that hasn’t done the same at some point. Bama fans did it under Mike Shula and Mike duBose’s tenure.
No, it’s much, much more than football. Being Auburn is a way of life, a
spiritual thing. But of course I wouldn’t expect a bunch of Hillbillie’s and Yahoo’s to understand!
Ok thats just ridiculous. You say your proof transcends football but yet all you cite is football in your “proof of loyalty”. give me a break.
The poll directly dealt with college football fans. No other sport cited!
But how respondents answered the poll had more to do with the school than just football. It’s an Auburn Alum thing. 😉
You guys are right, I don’t understand it. I’ve been there, plenty of times, and still don’t get it. Much in the same way I didn’t understand the Branch Davidians, Scientology, or Heaven’s Gate. You people are weird and creepy as hell. 49-0.
Brandon, your not being an Auburn fan is obvious. Your a bammer for sure. We Auburn people live the Auburn creed, we love all sports, not just football. All Bama fan talks about are their 19,000 National Titles (earned or not). Must of you Bammers couldn’t even spell Tuscaloosa, let alone find it.
Roll Tide, isn’t it time for you to make your daily prayer facing towards Saban’s statue?
Damn a bammer. War Eagle!
WDE! damn a bammer lol love it…..
WE are creepy as hell? Y’all are the ones who celebrate the criminal acts of a lunatic (updyke). And yes, you do celebrate it. There were plenty of bammers getting their picture taken with that moron on Bourbon Street and getting his autograph like he’s a celebrity or a hero. bammer is a sick cult. Auburn is everything good and right in the world. WDE!
Being an Auburn fan & part of the AU fam is a way of life that comes naturally to us every day of the year. To live it is to love it in a genuine way that’s second nature. Words can’t adequately explain or describe the full meaning of what it’s like to be a part of something as unique & special as the Auburn faithful. It’s a feeling that runs deeply to the very core of our being, weaving into our DNA & remaining there to define a part of who we are forever.
War Eagle. This is not a surprise to any Auburn fan. Except that an organization outside of our family admitted it.
This past season, for the first time in 45 years of attending AU football games, I left a game way early. I left in the third quarter of the T A&M game. I couldn’t bear to watch us play do poorly with no spirit. I can say that while Auburn fans left games early, that is certainly preferable to fans staying and booing the team. I didn’t hear that at Auburn, even in this horrible season.
Let’s hope for a turnaround. The Auburn Family will be there behind the team in 2013. WAR EAGLE!! Hey!!
Weird and creepy, says the updyke fan who stalks the Auburn page. Oh, the irony.
Not surprised that we’re labeled the most loyal. We love our Tigers no matter what, through thick and thin, through Barfield and Chizik.
I guess that’s why a coworker of my said this year if things don’t improve he is becoming a BAMA fan. That was after about six games. I told him no you are not.
Obviously NOT a fan