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A survey conducted by Marshall Marketing for Channel 19 News may hold some surprising news for local football fans and the Cleveland Browns.
A majority of fans in the nine-county Northeast Ohio area believe the team should stay in downtown Cleveland, and by any metric the results weren’t even close.
Marshall, a Pittsburgh-based firm that’s been in business since 1985, learned that 57% of people in the area believe the Browns should stay downtown. Of note: of those nine counties, none believed that the Browns should move to a new facility in Brook Park, a suburb southwest of downtown.
Summit County fans believe the team should stay by a 54%-28% margin. Stark County numbers were similar with 53% of fans there saying the team should stay put and 25% saying they should construct a domed facility.
It’s not surprising to find the counties further east of the city center believe hiking to Brook Park to be too much. Those in Ashtabula and Lake counties believe that the team should stay downtown by a 49% margin.
Whether this sentiment adds any fuel to fire a still on-going controversy remains to be seen, but the City of Cleveland and the Browns have been locked in a war of words and in court rooms in recent weeks.
Marshall Marketing surveyed 1,000 adults by phone over 34 days living in the area, according to Tim Marshall the firm’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. They survey’s demographics (gender, age, income and ethnicity) proportionately matched those in the area.
George Thomas covers sports news and other things for the Beacon Journal.
This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Adults in Northeast Ohio say Browns belong in Cleveland, survey shows
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A majority of fans in the nine-county Northeast Ohio area believe the team should stay in downtown Cleveland, and by any metric the results weren’t even close.
Marshall, a Pittsburgh-based firm that’s been in business since 1985, learned that 57% of people in the area believe the Browns should stay downtown. Of note: of those nine counties, none believed that the Browns should move to a new facility in Brook Park, a suburb southwest of downtown.
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Summit County fans believe the team should stay by a 54%-28% margin. Stark County numbers were similar with 53% of fans there saying the team should stay put and 25% saying they should construct a domed facility.
It’s not surprising to find the counties further east of the city center believe hiking to Brook Park to be too much. Those in Ashtabula and Lake counties believe that the team should stay downtown by a 49% margin.
Whether this sentiment adds any fuel to fire a still on-going controversy remains to be seen, but the City of Cleveland and the Browns have been locked in a war of words and in court rooms in recent weeks.
Marshall Marketing surveyed 1,000 adults by phone over 34 days living in the area, according to Tim Marshall the firm’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. They survey’s demographics (gender, age, income and ethnicity) proportionately matched those in the area.
George Thomas covers sports news and other things for the Beacon Journal.
This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Adults in Northeast Ohio say Browns belong in Cleveland, survey shows
Continue reading...
