And the 'it happens everywhere' thing is BS. Not too many stadiums in South and Midwest empty out in a tied or one-possession game in the fourth quarter
*Texas fans tend to stick around, at least the students do, unless the game is
such a blowout that it's become boring. The alumni, however, are mostly gone
by halftime, regardless of what's happening on the field.
*This is basically what I see at Nebraska games. The big money is out the
door by half, the rest of us are glued to our seats.
*Another way of defining fan: do you have the slightest idea what the score
is, or what the current conference standings are and where your team is
sited in them? Unfortunately, at Georgia the student "fans" had little or
no idea of any of the above; they were so drunk they were vomiting on each
other by the end of the first quarter. I didn't see quite so much of that
at Virginia Tech. I'm fond of both my alma maters, but I'd say Tech fans
were more "fans" than Georgia fans were.
That's a benchmark, incidentally, that one can use to good effect at
baseball games as well. Some folks claim they're "fans" even though they
show up in the middle of the second inning, leave around the seventh inning
stretch, spend all their time standing in the aisles chattering with their
friends, drinking wine our of plastic cups, and pretty much never look in
the direction of the field. All you have to do to puncture their bubble is
casually ask them, oh, how the Red Sox are doing in the standings. If the
Sox are six games out of first and the "fan" says "we're in first, right"
you know you've got a jerkoff on your hands.
*At UNL its not a large percentage, but you can certainly see the club
seating thinning a bit by the middle of the 4th quarter and the older folk
from under the overhang are waddling towards the exits after the half.
*I'd say 5-15% are gone by the start of the 4th. (UTinny)
