American Football Jersey in London

 

On September 29^th, the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Minnesota Vikings at Wembley Stadium in London so The Wall Street Journal took the opportunity to count the number of football jersey spotted at the game.

This nominal level of counting football team jerseys commenced for a full hour with a total of 477 Jerseys spotted in the crowd.   The results were tallied with the Top 10 Jersey teams listed along with the total number of jerseys spotted.   Upon review of the Jersey count chart which sums to a total of 477 jerseys, I discovered by adding only the Top 10 teams, they sum to 269 jerseys or 62% of the total.    Reading the article does give more details by stating two football jerseys by defunct European football teams were viewed and counted.    We can only assume the remaining 179 jerseys were from the remaining 22 NFL teams, except as pointed out in the article from the Kansas City Chiefs.  Although I speculate based on their current undefeated record, the amount of Chief jerseys has likely increased.      

The Patriots were the most popular team jersey in London with similar results found for the United States when reviewing a leading team jersey manufacturer’s website, www.jerseydatabase.com.    On the contrary, London fans preferred Tom Brady but while on our side of the pond our preference is for Peyton Manning.   Interesting enough Peyton’s brother, Eli Manning, was in a tie for the number two spot for most popular name in London.

The average time between spotting a team jersey was calculated to be 7.55 seconds.    Using this information I wanted to find the probability of spotting a team jersey in 5 seconds or less.  Using Poisson formula I calculated the chance of seeing a jersey within 5 seconds was 51%.  Taking it a step further the probability of only seeing a Jersey every 10 seconds falls to 26%.  

In summary a thorough analysis of football fans in London based on jersey count could not be determined from this article due to the lack of information.  The reader had to find within the article, mention of the European Football league jerseys to include in the total count.  The author intentionally left out any Viking or Steeler jersey and the survey used convenience sampling technique by surveying only jerseys at a football game.  I did find the collected data  interesting but the information is really for entertainment values only.


The Most Popular NFL Jerseys in London

Jersey Database