Is the Red Sox, the only team with a "nation" ( Red Sox Nation)?

Question

I know they must have used to live in the Boston area, and then moved, and are still die hard loyals, and it is reported the Red Sox have the most fans at away games. I never heard of another team having a "nation" is it just the Red Sox?

Answer 1

As far as I know the Red Sox are the only certified Nation. The fans can buy memberships online.

As a pround member of Red Sox Nation I have some insight for Ynke7 The Mick and Dr. J.

The Sox do crowd many stadiums over and over, like Balitmore and Tampa.

It's Fenway Park, the oldest stadium at 95 years old. It's full of history and memories. Unlike Yankee stadium that isn't the house that Ruth built because they rebuild it so often.

Never refer to Red Sox fans as Bandwagon Jumpers. Most Red Sox fans know baseball and the team, very well, unlike most yankee fans.

Sox fans don't pick up the love of the game from ESPN, they pick it up from NESN. Where like 95% of the games are shown. Also from family, many fans grow up with their father or grandfather loving a team, so they follow suit.

New Englands team is the Red Sox. The Mets and Yankees are not in New England. Patriots fans are generaly Sox fans, staying with the New England theme.

Answer 2

As people have pointed out here, there are LOTS of large fan bases that are geographically spread out, and not just pro teams either. Some colleges have this type of following. For example, the national Notre Dame fan base has been around a lot longer than Raider nation, even though they didn't use the term. I think the Lakers and the Celtics also had national fan bases in their day, maybe even the Bulls during the MJ era. And the Cardinals and Braves followers are very large, because there's a large broadcast area for them.

I think what distinguishes Red Sox Nation and Yankee Universe (which is officially a charity, but also a term adopted informally by many Yankee fans), is their size. The Universe gets its size because NYC is so big, and also because of the long tradition of winning. The Nation gets it size because so many people rooted for the Sox while in college in Boston, and because of the romanticism of rooting for a Cursed team. RSN has been around a LOT longer than 2004, which was suggested by an earlier answer, its just that more people came out of the woodwork since they won.

I am also sure the Nation will grow even larger, as all the college kids will bring the memories with them when they leave Boston for jobs.

Answer 3

Red Sox aren't the only team to visit a ballpark & out cheer the home team, I have been to a few Oriole games & you would think you are inNew York & yes the Raider fans had the original nation so even though Boston uses the term "NATION", it's not the first team to use the phrase. Other teams use familiar terms too.

Answer 4

This term actually started out with the Oakland Raiders of the NFL. They have fans all over the country do to their past success. It is a fact that the Sox are the biggest draw on the road of any MLB team. They made it to the top just last year and they only average a couple thousand more road fans than the Yankees who were the most popular road team for decades. So, I'd say that there is a Yankees Nation out there and its big.

Answer 5

The Red Sox like to include all their fans around the country into the Red Sox nation and they are the team that started this "nation" reference. You are also correct in stating that the Red Sox are the biggest draw on the road with an average attendance of about 38k per game, the Yankees are second at about 37k per game on the road.

Answer 6

I undergo in techniques going to an Angel activity in 2003. It develop into the crimson Sox vs. the Angels. the top deck ought to have been ninety% crimson Sox followers. It gave the impression of Fenway Park with the "permit's bypass crimson Sox" cheering occurring. I hear it rather is a similar way with Yankee video games in Anaheim. i've got been a crimson Sox fan considering the fact that 1986 -- definite, i develop right into a 12 twelve months old bandwagon, yet this develop into incredibly the 1st twelve months I grew to become prepared on gazing the video games. i've got caught with them nonetheless. We bypass with the aid of all the undesirable years so as that whilst they win we are able to assert, "My team gained all of it! finally!" And now that it rather is a physically powerful time to be crimson Sox fan, i would be with them even whilst they fall back (in 40 years.) As for faux followers: you have by no capacity been to L.A. there are countless "Raider followers" with the aid of fact they like the colors or the undesirable boy techniques-set. it rather is not something approximately soccer. and that they could'tpersistent. thoughtless idiots. Edit: ok, perhaps not ninety%, only looked like it with the noise. What develop into incredibly unhappy develop into this develop into the twelve months after the Angels gained the sequence.

Answer 7

In September games in Toronto on consecutive weeks, the Yankees and the Red Sox visited and there were far more NY fans than Red Sox fans.

Keeping in mind that NY is a lot closer than Boston though.

However, the Boston crowd was much more polite than the NY crowd. Cheering for your team is one thing, insulting 3rd base coaches is another.

Answer 8

There have been, and are many "nations" in sports.

And you are dead wrong - most of these out of state fans did not live in the Boston area. They are bandwagon jumpers. They love Boston and New York teams because of ESPN. That is right - ESPN and their love for these east coast teams make it cool to love the Yankees and Red Sox, especially since they broadcast their games at least once a week, and treat their series like the world series.
Two teams you cannot blame for big fan bases - Cubs and Braves. WGN and WTBS were on every cable station, so you could see their games on every day. So it made sense that people liked them in towns like Omaha since they were on television.
But Yankees and Red Sox fans not on the east coast - mostly bandwagon jumpers clinging onto successful teams.

Answer 9

Red Sox "Nation" is a Johnny-Come-Lately, people. Anyone who watched Super Bowl XL and saw all those Terrible Towels waving in the stands has witnessed the power of Steeler Nation....and even we weren't the originals (the best, maybe....most fanatical, you betcha).

The first mention I remember seeing a referrence to fans outside of a team's home area as (fill in the blank) Nation was way back in the early '70's when (oh, this hurts to say it) Raider Nation cheered on Stabler, Biletnikoff, Branch, Sistrunk, Brown, Blanda, Tatum and those guys all over the country.

Sorry, Beantowners, I think the Silver and Black beat us all to the punch on this one.

Answer 10

I believe the Red Sox have the only nation, but the Cubs have a Coalition. They have the Rainbow Coalition that is. What do you expect from a team that plays all their home games at the worlds largest gay bar.