Kansas City Chiefs fan base ranked 27th in the NFL

In a way, these teams with massive season ticket waiting lists are the most supportive of their fans. Considering, the results of a recent study by a pair of Emory University professors might come as a bit of a surprise-but a happy surprise, for Dallas fans: The study finds that the Cowboys have the best fans in football.

The researchers attempted to quantify a team’s “fan equity” by comparing a team’s revenue with its performance on the field and the size of the team’s market.

So you can think of it more as how easily fans are sold on a team and less about the most avid fan bases.

The “best” fans in the National Football League according to Emory: 1. An explanation of study’s methodology can be found here.

The Packers, Steelers and Seahawks aren’t charging their fans enough money, and that’s why their fans will never be as great as the Cowboys’. And teams like them “will do better when we switch to non-financial metrics such as social media following”. Sorry guys.

This is the third year in a row they’ve tried to make a determination, as fan bases wax and wane with their support, some cresting and bottoming in relation to winning stretches and losing spells. If it was the last five years, the Seahawks would probably rank near the top.

Bringing up the rear, from 28th to 32nd, are the Bills, Jaguars, Raiders, Browns and Dolphins.

Hecken says the NFC’s best uniform – and the NFL’s, for that matter – is the Packers’ green and gold: “classic old-school looks that have remained basically unchanged since the team won the first Super Bowl in 1967”. In the Browns’ case, it probably also doesn’t help that the team was deactivated for three seasons after Art Modell moved the original franchise to Baltimore.