There are a lot of Hawks fans, but the Atlanta metro is a huge geographic area (when I was in college, we were considered Atlanta metro and we were 45 minutes away on a good day). Atlanta has a ton of people from other regions living in the city. I work in the middle of Atlanta on a team of 18 and only 2 of us are from GA. The rest are from NY, New Orleans, DC, Wisconsin, San Francisco, LA, and more. Add in that our airport having so many flights (and direct flights at that) it makes it so easy for other fans to just fly in for the night and come to a road game for their team. So when you see the arena half full of other fans, that’s why. But we have a lot of fans here. Hardcore Hawks fans.
I mean thats how chicago and new york are too. And they always sell out with hometown fans.I went to loyola which is at least 2 hours public transit or 45 minutes(sometimes more with traffic) in a car to get to united center. and that place is always sold out with bulls fans even tho they sucked terribly when i lived there. (It was the elton brand years)…you can say the same thing about airports. Both nyc and chi have multiple major airports
There are a lot of Hawks fans, but the Atlanta metro is a huge geographic area (when I was in college, we were considered Atlanta metro and we were 45 minutes away on a good day). Atlanta has a ton of people from other regions living in the city. I work in the middle of Atlanta on a team of 18 and only 2 of us are from GA. The rest are from NY, New Orleans, DC, Wisconsin, San Francisco, LA, and more. Add in that our airport having so many flights (and direct flights at that) it makes it so easy for other fans to just fly in for the night and come to a road game for their team. So when you see the arena half full of other fans, that’s why. But we have a lot of fans here. Hardcore Hawks fans.
I mean thats how chicago and new york are too. And they always sell out with hometown fans.I went to loyola which is at least 2 hours public transit or 45 minutes(sometimes more with traffic) in a car to get to united center. and that place is always sold out with bulls fans even tho they sucked terribly when i lived there. (It was the elton brand years)…you can say the same thing about airports. Both nyc and chi have multiple major airports