Interesting numbers

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maryvillenative said:
I can 100%, without a doubt, GUARANTEE that there wasn't 100k at BMS. Neyland was the king of TN Saturday night.
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I live within sight of the track and went to the race. I can guarantee you that there was a large crowd there. It was mostly full, so pretty close to 100,000. My point is that there were a lot more people there than has been there in several years, just like the VOLS game.

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temptn said:
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I live within sight of the track and went to the race. I can guarantee you that there was a large crowd there. It was mostly full, so pretty close to 100,000. My point is that there were a lot more people there than has been there in several years, just like the VOLS game.

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Bottomless Mason Jar Night?
 
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I don't understand the OP. I keep trying to, but can't.

What does it mean about Tennessee football? What does it mean about motor sports? What does it mean about anything?

I guess one conclusion we can reach is that there were at least 200,000 people in the eastern part of Tennessee on Saturday. Then again, the population of Tennessee is over 6.7 million, so getting 200,000 in the northeastern corner doesn't seem that big a deal.

I suppose another conclusion is that motor sports are as popular as Vols football? I'm not buying that one, though, unless most of those folks at Bristol came from the Virginia side of the border.

I just don't understand what the OP wants us all to walk away from this thread knowing, that we didn't know before.

What are we supposed to find "interesting"?

Can anyone explain?
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I guess one conclusion we can reach is that there were at least 200,000 people in the eastern part of Tennessee on Saturday. Then again, the population of Tennessee is over 6.7 million, so getting 200,000 in the northeastern corner doesn't seem that big a deal.

What are we supposed to find "interesting"?
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Maybe it's not that interesting but by population, on one given night, Neyland was the 7th largest "city" in TN and BMS was the 8th largest "city" in TN. More people were in those coliseums than Franklin, Johnson City, or Jackson, individually.
 
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37620VOL said:
Maybe it's not that interesting but by population, on one given night, Neyland was the 7th largest "city" in TN and BMS was the 8th largest "city" in TN. More people were in those coliseums than Franklin, Johnson City, or Jackson, individually.
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Ah, I see.

Maybe that doesn't strike me as noteworthy because I've long been used to Neyland Stadium outnumbering my home town by a factor of 5 to 1 (100k+ vs less than 20k). Yep, five Tullahomas fit into Neyland: old, young, football fans, those who couldn't care less about football, even my high school English teacher and the manager of the Sonic down on South Jackson Street. They all fit, five times over.

So that's what this was about? Hmm.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I don't understand the OP. I keep trying to, but can't.

What does it mean about Tennessee football? What does it mean about motor sports? What does it mean about anything?

I guess one conclusion we can reach is that there were at least 200,000 people in the eastern part of Tennessee on Saturday. Then again, the population of Tennessee is over 6.7 million, so getting 200,000 in the northeastern corner doesn't seem that big a deal.

I suppose another conclusion is that motor sports are as popular as Vols football? I'm not buying that one, though, unless most of those folks at Bristol came from the Virginia side of the border.

I just don't understand what the OP wants us all to walk away from this thread knowing, that we didn't know before.

What are we supposed to find "interesting"?

Can anyone explain?
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It proves that Tennessee fans still come to games, and we still pack Neyland. Many folks were acting like Tennessee days of packing out Neyland were over. They were wrong! GBO!!!!
 
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Point is that things are getting back to normal. Vols are relevant again, people getting back out and doing things in large numbers, etc. People want to make everything sound bad, e.g. NegaVols, politicians, media, etc. but things are looking better, I think. On another non-interesting note, High school football attendance is up.
Heck we even have a casino here in Bristol, which I do not like personally.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I don't understand the OP. I keep trying to, but can't.

Then again, the population of Tennessee is over 6.7 million, so getting 200,000 in the northeastern corner doesn't seem that big a deal.
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Population of NE TN is only about 1.5 million including Knoxville so 200,000 is a pretty big percent.
 
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temptn said:
Population of NE TN is only about 1.5 million including Knoxville so 200,000 is a pretty big percent.
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You don't believe all of those 200,000 people actually live in NE TN, do you?

Because I'm thinking probably over half the Bristol crowd came from Virginia and North Carolina, while folks came from all over Tennessee for the Vols game.
 
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temptn said:
Attendance at Vols, game over 100,000.
At the same time there were over 100,000 people at the night race in Bristol TN.
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I had a feeling attendance at Neyland Stadium would go up a whole heck of a lot when the product on the field got better.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
You don't believe all of those 200,000 people actually live in NE TN, do you?

Because I'm thinking probably over half the Bristol crowd came from Virginia and North Carolina, while folks came from all over Tennessee for the Vols game.
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There were people from all over the United States at the race. There were people camping for over a week before the race from every state including Alaska. Over 1.7 million watched on TV. Pretty good for a town of only 26,000.
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If there were 100k people at a rod run, 100k in Bristol and another 100k in Neyland, that’s about what… an average Boomsday if you add them together?
 
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