NFL Export Rankings

Alright, I suggested it to Sto, but I couldn't wait to see the results. Here is the ranking of states based on their NFL player to total population ratio. NFL player totals were taken off of the site that Storo linked to, and populations were based off of approximate July 2005 populations for each state. Populations were taken in millions rounded to three decimal places, which is probably too accurate. Hope I got all of the state abbreviations correct. Anyway, we can take three things from this analysis:

1. Nebraska is king over the West and Midwest.
2. SEC football should be better than it is.
3. Don't recruit in New England.

Props to Hawaii and their abundance of linemen. Also a suprise is D.C. with double the score of any other East Coast state. All in all not what I expected, but Nebraska didn't do too bad with a 9th place finish. South Dakota verified that it will be a powerhouse no time in the near future coming in at 39th. The numbers do not lie gentlemen. Feel free to analyze.

Current NFL players per million citizens:

Rank	State	NFL/Pop
1	LA	16.80
2	MS	15.75
3	DC	14.55
4	SC	11.28
5	FL	10.06
6	GA	9.92
7	AL	9.65
8	HI	9.41
9	NE	7.96
10	IA	7.75
11	TX	7.70
12	AR	7.56
13	OH	6.80
14	OK	6.48
15	VA	6.48
16	WA	6.36
17	TN	5.53
18	CA	5.51
19	NC	5.18
20	NJ	5.16
21	MD	5.00
22	MI	4.94
23	ID	4.90
24	KS	4.74
25	PA	4.67
26	UT	4.45
27	OR	4.12
28	MO	3.97
29	WY	3.93
30	AZ	3.87
31	CO	3.64
32	DE	3.56
33	IL	3.53
34	ND	3.14
35	WI	3.07
36	NV	2.90
37	KY	2.88
38	MA	2.81
39	SD	2.58
40	MN	2.53
41	IN	2.23
42	WV	2.20
43	MT	2.14
44	CT	1.71
45	NY	1.61
46	AK	1.51
47	NM	1.04
t48	ME	0.00
t48	RI	0.00
t48	VT	0.00
t48	NH	0.00

I'm not going to go as far as to say I agree with Mr. Hornung, but with no comment on intellectual ability, only the obvious advantage in athletic ability, I would say that these numbers are interesting when compared to this Link.

Go Big Red