Were Hartford Whalers fans mostly Yankees or Red Sox fans? ?

Question

Were Hartford Whalers fans mostly Yankees or Red Sox fans? ?

Answer 1

3 Yankee fans and 2 Red Sox fans = 5 total fans. No wonder they left Hartford.

Answer 2

Being from Hartford I can tell you that when the Whalers were around it was pretty much 50/50. The Red Sox were in the midst of their 86 year slump and the Yankees were going through one of the few extended unimpressive stretches in their history. I was a huge Yankees and Whalers fan because my father was from NYC. Currently the Hartford area is overrun with Bandwagon Red Sox fans in pink baseball hats. I would say that Connecticut fans are very fickle due to the location between MA and NY, the percentage of fans of each fluctuate with the success of each city. Its probably 65-35% Boston now due to the Patroits, Celtics, and Red Sox, but in the late 90's early 2000's it was probably 70% NY.