{"id":194425,"date":"2025-09-02T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194425\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:23:09","slug":"connecticut-sun-fans-support-possible-hartford-relocation-per-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194425\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Sun fans support possible Hartford relocation, per survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The support for keeping the Sun in Connecticut amid speculation of a possible relocation \u201ccomes from all over the state\u201d and \u201cmany fans support the idea of a possible Hartford relocation\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/29\/connecticut-leaders-push-to-keep-sun-in-state-criticize-leagues-handling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/29\/connecticut-leaders-push-to-keep-sun-in-state-criticize-leagues-handling\/\">if the team remains in the state<\/a>, according to Maggie Vanoni of the NEW HAVEN REGISTER. Even some who live closer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/25\/mohegan-tribe-faces-hurdles-over-connecticut-sun-sale-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/25\/mohegan-tribe-faces-hurdles-over-connecticut-sun-sale-restrictions\/\">Mohegan Sun<\/a> \u201cunderstand that Hartford may be the best site for the Sun.\u201d The CT Insider ran a reader survey that received over 60 responses that \u201ccame from all across the state and beyond, including New York, Massachusetts and even Georgia.\u201d Survey results showed that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>88.89% said that they \u201cwould \u2018likely\u2019 attend Sun games in Hartford if the team were to move the 45-minute drive up Route 2.\u201d <\/li>\n<li>85.71% said that it was \u201c\u2018unlikely\u2019 that they would travel to Boston to see games if the team were to move out of state.\u201d <\/li>\n<li>63.49% said that they have been \u201cfans of the Sun for about two decades,\u201d while 23.81% have become fans of the team \u201cwithin the past five years.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Vanoni wrote the WNBA \u201cmay prefer the team in another market, such as Houston, but there is support throughout New England for moving the team to Boston.\u201d The majority of the survey responses said that they were \u201cagainst a move to Boston, but many understood the need to move the team to a bigger, more lucrative market\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/sports\/article\/wnba-connecticut-sun-relocation-fans-thoughts-20823850.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NEW HAVEN REGISTER, 8\/31<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The support for keeping the Sun in Connecticut amid speculation of a possible relocation \u201ccomes from all over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1339,62,67,132,68,232,1707],"class_list":{"0":"post-194425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wnba","14":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115135395158228704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}