{"id":297,"date":"2010-10-04T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:10:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T18:10:26","slug":"capital-sports-readers-give-thumbs-up-to-the-bulls-thumbs-down-to-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Capital Sports readers give thumbs up to the Bulls, thumbs down to Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duke.edu\/web\/daamn\/durhambulls.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 227px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.duke.edu\/web\/daamn\/durhambulls.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The Durham Bulls were chosen as the favorite North Carolina-based professional team by Capital Sports readers in an online poll.<\/p>\n<p>The minor league affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays got 57 percent of the vote compared to the second-place finishing Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL which got 21 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>There were not as many responses to this unscientific poll as last week&#8217;s poll about whether or not Butch Davis would be back next season as UNC&#8217;s coach. That plays into the common thought that this is a college sports area and that fans of pro teams often like teams outside of North Carolina so they weren&#8217;t inclined to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the results were interesting. In a separate poll, the Carolina Panthers of the NFL were chosen as the least favorite NC-based pro team with 36 percent of the vote. The next least favorite teams were soccer&#8217;s Carolina Railhawks and the NBA&#8217;s Charlotte Bobcats which each got 27 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Railhawks didn&#8217;t get a single vote as favorite NC-based pro team while the Carolina Mudcats and Durham Bulls didn&#8217;t get a single vote as least favorite NC-based pro team.<\/p>\n<p>Many fans of the Mudcats and Bulls enjoy the experience of going to the games but I doubt as many of their fans follow the players and standings as much as Hurricanes&#8217; fans do. But that&#8217;s just an educated guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Durham Bulls were chosen as the favorite North Carolina-based professional team by Capital Sports readers in an online poll. The minor league affiliate of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}