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Originally Posted by DanT
As a native Kansas Citian, I'm favorably inclined toward all the midwestern cities. Cincinnati has at least two things that they do about as good as anywhere else in the world. One is their big marathon weekend, the Flying Pig. The race support is first-class and the crowds are awesome, which makes all of the Flying Pig weekend races well-loved. I ran there last year, my first-ever marathon, and I'm looking forward to returning there this year for the 25th anniversary edition of the Flying Pig.
Another great institution is Cincinnati Children's Hospital. They treat kids from all over and the discoveries they help make benefit all of our kids.
I've only been to Cincinnati twice and haven't attended any football or baseball games there, but I would bet the folks there are like folks throughout the Midwest in being friendly to respectful visiting sports fans.
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Cincinnati is a baseball town. Even when their baseball team is terrible. They are basically what rams fans were in at Louis. Just annoying because their allegiance is based on wearing the colors and shouting “who Dey.” But most of them can’t name the back half of their starting lineup. They get real excited when the season starts and then abandon ship. Then they show up once they know their team is good. I mean their attendance increased by 47% over 2019. The media paints that as some kind of turnaround. Instead of asking “how the **** could any major sports team average 47k?” That is insane. I’ve been to the city many times including nfl Sunday during the ochocinco years and even when they were good the sports environment was sterile until the playoff push.
While they are technically Midwest the afc north is a different animal when it comes to their fans. They have a lot more of that industrial grit. Steelers and browns have tough and passionate fans. Nice fans but they’ll give you a tough time if you’re wearing the wrong colors. Ravens are basically northeast fans. Cincy fans are wannabes. But talk to any afc north fan and you’ll see they’re universally annoyed by cincy fans for the same reason. It’s hard to take shit from fans who just got into the team two years ago. It’s hard to talk shit to fans who can so easily switch the team off when they aren’t a powerhouse. Losing feels really really personal to me which is why fairweather fans are just harder to stomach for me.