Saturday, August 9, 2008

Seek and Ye Shall Find

An interesting idea has been kicking around the brain factory recently. A new resident of an NBA city needs to see how the fans of the city respond to the team. Living in Atlanta certainly brings it's own particular challenge since the city (mostly) seems to not give a damn about the team. This might make for an interesting research project. This site would feel relatively comfortable analyzing the fan bases of three, possibly four NBA franchises. A research project of this sort could lead to interesting analysis of major metropolitan centers in the United States, but there are some considerations:

1. While one city being observed is residence to the authors, the other two guaranteed cities are former residence of the authors.
Answer: This is only appropriate. We don't live in Cleveland, and we're not fucking going to Cleveland.

2. Three of the possible subjects also happen to be the three teams from Texas. Does region matter to analysis?
Answer: Perhaps, but broke twenty-somethings can't travel a great deal, so deal with it

3. The fourth possible option is Dallas, a city neither author has lived in but seems to despise.
Answer: Distaste for Dallas is based on experiences there and with people who identify strongly as residence of said location.

So that's it. We'll be occasionally bringing you reports about Atlanta mixed in with reports on the sociological importance of the Rockets, Spurs and possibly Mavericks.

Feast bitches,

-Dusty

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