Valdosta, Ga., NOT BOSTON, is TitleTown USA according to ESPN/sportsnation

[Cman]

The most important thing to take away from this is that we still beat out New York.

That sounds good enough for me.

[iowa plowboy]

Yet more worthless, meaningless make-news espy-type stupidity on ESPN.  Filled in with MVP and credit report commercials and equally irrelevent updates of Favre's every self-absorbed movement.  

It's getting harder and harder to sift through this crap to get any real news.  

[Schupac]

So our sports teams didn't win a popularity contest?

Phew, it's a good thing they focus on sports.

[crownsy]

anyone else find this kind of suspect? added on to by the fact that the hard poll numbers weren't released?

like, how does NYC alone, which outnumbers GA's population 5-1, not make them take it home?

i smell a bot program out of georgia, or a "panel of experts" who voted a non-mainstream town to prove that espn is in touch with more than boston, NY and LA.

EDIT: after lookign at the town homepage and seeing a "WE DID IT! we're title town!!1" I change my thinking to that of roy's, it seems like a huge grassroots "we're gonna get us on dat der ESPN!!!!" movement was organized.

[KCattheStripe]

To quote Casablanca "I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find there is gambling in here!" Are you suggesting that ESPn would rig a poll for a meaning less title?

[Sixpence]

What was the criteria for this thing?  Shouldn't the nickname of a town represent what the town stands for?  New York and LA didn't even get runner-up and Boston placed 5th?

Now at the end of all this what does it mean?  That we call Valdosta "Titletown" for the hell of it?  Awesome, wish it actually meant something.

[SShoreFan 2.0]

To quote Casablanca "I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find there is gambling in here!" Are you suggesting that ESPn would rig a poll for a meaning less title?

With quotes like this, it could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship between yourself and Celticsblog.  TP!

[StartOrien]

I'm stealing a joke from my friend but, perhaps the voting was based on
"like 10% pro teams, 10% college teams, 10% high school teams, 70% birthplace of Jessie Tuggle"

[zerophase]

espn is a joke.

[iowa plowboy]

What was the criteria for this thing?  Shouldn't the nickname of a town represent what the town stands for?  New York and LA didn't even get runner-up and Boston placed 5th?

Now at the end of all this what does it mean?  That we call Valdosta "Titletown" for the hell of it?  Awesome, wish it actually meant something.

The criteria is:  We have brilliant commentators like steven i smith, Jamele Hill, and Skip Bayless on staff..With that in mind, We only have so much substance to fill a 27/7 station so we need to come up with creatively meaningless boring crap to fill the rest of the hours. 
I know.  I sat in on the production meeting.

ESPN should hire Greta Van Facelift or Katie Airhead to do on location "reporting" for this epic stupidity.

[86 Celtics]

Wow this is crazy...ESPN is sliding out of real sports coverage like MTV slid out of showing music videos!  Thank goodness for ESPN News and on-demand videos online.

[CelticPride]

There's this perspective which I admit has merit:

The most important thing to take away from this is that we still beat out New York.

But my first thought was "who cares?" It's only ESPN being ESPN. Don't tell me you're still wondering "Who's Now?"

My second is that Boston isn't a town so it shouldn't be in the running. Valdosta has a population under 50K. Technically, it's a city, but I'll let that slide and give them the township.

But the final reaction is from the gut:

To paraphrase Patrick Roy, I can't hear ESPN because I have championship rings plugging my ears.

[Celtic]

Title Town is either Boston, New York, or LA, there are no other options. ESPN threw in a bunch of towns none of us have heard of, and people in big cities with real pro teams didn't care, little towns, like Valdosta, took this seriously and it meant something to them, because let's be honest there ain't much else going on there.

In a few days if someone asks you, "Hey, who won that Title Town thing on ESPN?" Rather than immediately being able to recall the winner, had it been a real city, with real teams that actually deserved the name "Title Town," most of us will respond with something like, "Oh, some hick town in Georgia, I can't remember the name."

[Celtic Fan Forever]

The most important thing to take away from this is that we still beat out New York.

That sounds good enough for me.

And LA, can't forget them