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Packers Voted 'America's Favorite Team'
by Jason Bellamy, Packers.com
posted 10/03/2002
Forget about the Dallas Cowboys, thanks to a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive the Green Bay Packers can now call themselves "America's Team."
After numerous runner-up finishes, the Packers ended the Cowboys' nine-year run as "America's favorite professional football team," according to The Harris Poll, which surveyed a national sample of 2,203 adults between August 26 and September 3, 2002.
Just less than one in five (17 percent) of those surveyed who said they followed professional football named the Packers their first or second favorite team. The San Francisco 49ers were the second-most popular team at 14 percent, with the Oakland Raiders third (12 percent) and the Cowboys falling all the way to fourth, where they tied with the St. Louis Rams (11 percent).
Interestingly, the Packers finished first despite their lowest rating over the last three polls, having received 20 percent of the votes in 1998 and 18 percent in 1999 (the survey was not conducted in 2000 and 2001). Seventeen-percent was also the lowest winning share of the vote since the Dallas Cowboys regained the title of America's favorite team with only 16 percent in 1993.
According to The Harris Poll, the number of Americans who say they follow the sport is declining. Only 47 percent of those polled this year said they follow professional football, down from 53 percent in 1999 and 55 percent in 1998. It's also the lowest since 1993, when only 46 percent of those surveyed said they followed pro football.
The survey also demonstrated that pro football attracts more men (59 percent) than women (36 percent), and is watched most by those between the ages of 30-39 (53 percent), and those with household incomes of $35,001 to $50,000 (54 percent). African-Americans (53 percent) follow the sport more than Hispanics (46 percent) and Whites (46 percent). |
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