Which one? Unless you're from New York, you may never have heard of any other place called Florida but the one attempting to dodge the hurricanes each year, but with hurricanes and other geographically challenged natural disasters wandering off course of late, those New Yorkers living in the Town of Florida or the Village of Florida, NY may be seriously rethinking the whole Florida theme. For a closer look at just where these two Floridas in New York are, let's go to the map.
Florida, New York
Like Florahome, FL - both places are a fair distance from the coast and should not get the brunt of any storm making landfall in the area, but even inland, it's always best to be prepared. The following map is of the Warwick, NY Village of Florida (upper left-hand corner) located in Orange County, NY and though close enough to the Big Apple to enjoy, it's still far enough away to go back home and pick one.
Florida, New York in Orange County
Just up the road from Schenectady, the New York 'Town of Florida' in Montgomery County is even further inland and also like Florahome, may have a bit more in common with the agricultural part of the state than the city or the coast. By the way, if any of you guys up that way happen to read this, send us a postcard or photo - the one at the top of this post isn't fooling anybody.
Generally speaking, when referring to Florida's football fans in our neck of the woods, you're talking the Florida Gators. With Gainesville and the University of Florida just a short drive from Florahome, you'll find orange and blue a favorite color scheme in these parts and Gator fans, even in their current post-Tebow slump, as passionate and loyal as any in football. If you mean by 'Florida's football fans' - those other football fans in the state of Florida, there's a city to the north currently taking issue with their team's fans. Even at this late hour before a nationally televised Monday night game, 3000 or so tickets have yet to sold for the Jacksonville Jaguar-Tennessee Titans game. The Jaguars have been on a popularity roller-coaster since the early days and fans are still being asked, or begged may be a better word, to prove their loyalty once again. There are about as many opinions as to why the Jaguars are considered unpopular in the NFL as there are Jaguar fans. Many chalk it up to Jacksonville being just a college town, but consider this,... teams like the Gators or the Seminoles at Florida State have been around a good while. Fan loyalty takes time, even generations to build, not just in Florida but anywhere spectator sports are played. The teams ranked most popular in the same article labeling the Jags the most unpopular in the NFL are teams that have a long history and their fans raised by earlier fans of these venerable teams. These are your tail-Gators and people like the one pictured in this Jaguars.com splash ad. In the case of the Jaguars, fans like these are the ones that bleed teal and so genetically pass their passion on to their offspring. It takes time but this is a major player in the way fan loyalty is built. Whether your talking the University of Miami Hurricanes, Miami's pro team, the Dolphins or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, true football fans in the state of Florida are like those anywhere else in the world - they don't have to be begged to come to the game. They come, win or lose,... IT'S IN THEIR BLOOD.
