It's way more than that players, and folks. Just go to a game and look around. Grey heads and middle class people and youngsters everywhere make up most of the crowd. Magnify this even more for football, where you are filling 81,000 seats. A small percentage is students. It's the every day working people and their families who make up most of the crowd. I know - I'm one of them.
Win and they will come, and the distance doesn't matter.
And believe me I don't come to see or hear JDew. I'd rather they parted with this guy.