Wendy Williams. Steve Wilkos. Buffalo, NY. Hartford, CT. Tallahassee, FL. Lexington, KY. German Shepard. French Bulldog. Lucky Charms. Captain Crunch. Rice Krispies. Hot Wings. Potato Skins. Chips and Salsa. Corey Feldman. Brad Pitt.
George Clooney. Pee Wee Herman. Answer these questions before you tailgate and we'll let you know which team you should be cheering for. Would you rather cheer for a team that plays in a warm or cold climate? Or a team that plays in a dome? Is it important to you that the team you cheer for has been successful in the league historically throughout their existence? Is it important to you that the franchise you cheer for have a reputation as an honest organization?
Do you prefer to cheer for an organization that has changed cities multiple times? Or one that has stayed in the same location their whole existence? Created by John Rockerton. Is it important to you that the team you cheer for has been successful in the league recently?
Texans fans feel like Cowboys fans who just happen to live in Houston. Do fans in H-Town actually care? Deshaun Watson is exciting, and J. Watt will be wearing a gold jacket five years after he retires. The team was only a few years removed from a near-miss in the AFC championship game when it sank to the bottom of the standings just in time to select Peyton Manning first overall.
What was their prize for being so bad? Only Andrew Luck, hyped as the best quarterback prospect since, wait for it, Peyton Manning. Colts fans are much the same. Can you think of one defining quality that jumps out? Now that Luck has retired, the team is just kind of there. Just like their fans. Oh, and they used to pipe in noise at the old RCA Dome.
Big negative points for that. Christian McCaffrey is fun, and then what? Here again lies a franchise whose fans might care more about college sports than they do about the pro football team that plays in town. The Panthers have had nice runs here and there, but they fail, as so many teams near the bottom of the heap do, at one of the most basic tests: keeping opposing fans out of their building.
Panthers fans are Colts fans with better weather, food and beer. You have to feel for Chargers fans because most of them are concentrated about miles south of where they actually play.
Chargers fans in San Diego still care about the team but were victims of the all-too-typical stadium standoff with owner Dean Spanos. But hey, Justin Herbert should be exciting, or maybe he'll just end up like every other Chargers player; injured. Will the fans notice? Maybe by accident! Ford Field is always filled with silver-and-blue-clad fans, and they all seem to be at least somewhat invested in the outcome of the game.
But something always seems missing; at the moment, it is a competent head coach. Lions fans and Matthew Stafford are a lot alike: Stafford is a former No. He looks the part, and at times his stats are great, but there is something obviously missing. When you look at his career record — , as of this writing — it seems about right. Lions fans show up, and they cheer, and at times they cheer loudly.
Cincinnati is and always will be a baseball town. Despite that, Cincy fans care and often root boisterously if their team is giving them something to cheer for. But years of skinflint ownership by Mike Brown have beaten them down. Cincy made the playoffs five straight seasons, from through , and won the AFC North twice in that span.
If you think of their setup, Titans fans should be lower on this list. The Super Bowl appearance feels even further back in the past, and last year's surprise run to the AFC Championship Game always felt like it was going to end at the hands of Patrick Mahomes. If the team is really good, Titans fans will be out in force to support it.
Tennessee fans seem too nondescript to place any higher here. Sorry, Titans fans — I think. Bills fans are close to jumping the shark, assuming that shark is soaked with booze and about to be lit on fire.
When the game is actually going on, Bills fans are mostly just run-of-the-mill, though even as I type that, I seem to recall an incident where a rather salacious foreign object was thrown on the field by a fan. The craziest Buffalo fans are the ones drawing all of the headlines — so what about the rest of them? Do they exist? Are they rowdy? Do they care if the team someday moves to Toronto?
This was a tough group to place. The worst Niners fans get into parking lot altercations and conduct themselves like schoolyard bullies, or worse. The rest of the fans are pretty good though. They seem to genuinely care about the team, and should have good reason to after last year's Super Bowl near-miss.
Though this year's team has already been gutted by injuries, the 49ers should be good for the foreseeable future, which means Niners fans should climb this list. That could be a function of population or just a commentary on the fact that not nearly as many people care about the team as its staunchest supporters would have you think. Something pure and unadulterated.
The people that like the team really, really like it. Washington fans care deeply about their team and also harbor lots of anger toward owner Daniel Snyder. He's equal parts frustrating and embarrassing, and most of the fans just want to get back to the glory days of the late s and early s.
Washington fans might lead the pack in terms of unreasonable, unfounded optimism about their team.
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