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The Sports Junkies

Callers On The Commanders Rising Popularity

The Sports Junkies

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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From 05/28 Hour 3: The Sports Junkies discuss the Commanders rising popularity with callers.

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0:00.0

One question I have regarding this survey is where it's going to be next year, where is it going to be five years from now?

0:10.0

I would say that the growth of the fan base is the most encouraging.

0:16.3

And I think at the end of the season, you talk to people who went to the last couple of games.

0:21.8

Kind of felt like the old days, especially the Falcons game.

0:25.5

Trustway talks about the team kind of being willed back to victory by the fans.

0:31.0

And that was a game.

0:32.9

Look, I went to the Steelers game, and it was still half Steelers fans there.

0:37.2

But the Falcons game, it was all Burgundy and gold in the stadium.

0:41.0

Which is great because, I mean, we've seen the app that set into the fan base while Snyder was the owner.

0:46.4

And we just saw countless takeovers by opposing fan bases.

0:50.6

And it's still going to happen at times with heritage teams like the Steelers,

0:55.9

Eagles, Giants sometimes, teams with big fan bases, especially that are local? Sure, but you're

1:01.5

seeing more and more of it people going to root for the commanders. So I think that's,

1:06.9

a whole field advantage that they've lacked for like 25 years. So, yeah. So I think that's super encouraging with the name.

1:13.6

I think the older set, the Mary Ellen's of the world,

1:18.1

they're dug in.

1:20.3

Yeah, they're not going to like the name, right?

1:23.7

50 and over, you ain't going to...

1:25.3

Yeah, yeah.

1:25.8

But the younger generation that's coming up, they don't care.

1:29.7

They don't care as much. And then I know that this is five years, ten years down the road,

1:35.0

but take your six-year-old, like our pal Chris Farley, he brings his three kids to the game,

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