DICK’S Sporting Goods Jersey Report measures the NFL pulse of the nation

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of DICK’S Sporting Goods for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.

I am originally from South Africa where I am used to South African sports such as Cricket and Rugby and so when I moved to the USA, I was told that I would need to start learning all about The National Football League or the NFL.

My education began with the all-knowing-Yoda-Wikipedia where I learned that the NFL “is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America. The NFL’s 17-week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing 16 games and having one bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular season, six teams from each conference (four division winners and two wild-card teams) advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, played between the champions of the NFC and AFC.”

Now that I know the background, I want to find out who are the favourites.Which teams are hot and which players are the ones to watch. The problem is that each person has their own personal preference and since I can’t survey the whole of the USA, how can I get a sense of whose who?

This is where I was told about the DICK’S Sporting Goods Jersey Report  which is a ranking report of the top selling jerseys in the USA. Brilliant! DICK’S sells every kind of NFL Jersey and fans around the country buy them.  The jerseys that are the top sellers are the ones that are favourite and the must-watch players. This is an ideal way to get the pulse of the nation as DICK’s created a type of  “popularity contest” in  the NFL and it is ingenious !

What is cool is that the report is based on online and in-store sales data and is constantly being updated. The report can be sorted by all sorts of metrics such as overall Top 10, offence, defense, rookies and teams and you can divide that into “this week”, 30 days or Season (which starts on draft day) . What’s more is that each week the DICK’S team digs into the data to find an interesting piece of data.  As an example, “rookie Casron Wentz is leading the NFC in jersey sales”.

DICK’S Sporting Goods Jersey Report  has even got its own auto-updating widget so I can embed it here and keep my eye on it.

I live in Dallas, so naturally, I am looking to see where the Dallas Cowboys are in this report. I click on Teams and This Week and boom – the Dallas Cowboys are number 1 in the report !

I click on Top 10 and This Week and I see that Ezekiel Elliott from the Dallas Cowboys is in the number 1 spot…

I think I am onto a winner here so I headed over to DICK’s and added my purchase to the list to see if I can keep the Cowboys at the top. Check out DICK’S Jersey Report, Facebook page and Instagram for more info and cool gear too !