Comments on: Packers Fans Aren’t Most Loyal In NFL

By: David grenier

David grenier — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:04:07 +0000

As a Steelers fan in Patriots country, I have to concur that most Pats fans are bandwagoners. The Red Sox are the only team around here that has any real loyalty. Growing up everyone were fans of the New York teams, or not football fans. It’s only in 2001 that suddenly the Pats became a thing. Everyone forgot about basketball in the 90s and first half of the 2000s until the Celts got good again. Everyone forgot hockey until this year. Folks here just jump on the bandwagon of whatever team is winning.

When I lived in Pittsburgh in the 90s football was religion, and everyone was a Steelers fan, even the types of folks who normally don’t like sports. Green Bay is my second favorite team (and I’m not going to complain about the Superbowl, you guys played awesome and beat us fair and square) because the fan bases of both teams are so similar. You go to any sports bar on any Sunday anywhere in the country and I will gaurantee you will see someone sporting black-and-gold or green-and-yellow. I can’t say the same for the Pats, Colts, or Jets… and I certainly don’t see it being that way in ten years if all of those teams have a string of bad seasons.

That being said, my guess is this report is really a marketing report talking about fan density in a specific media market. That’s not really the same as loyalty, and doesn’t measure the true fan base of teams like Pittsburgh and Green Bay (and maybe, ugh, Dallas) that are truly national.

By: Ben Jammin

Ben Jammin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:39:22 +0000

Are all of you high? What about the Browns? THEE most loyal fan base in ANY sport. Try going through 46 years of not winning a championship and see how loyal you are to your team. Yeah, none of you can actually understand it unless you are a Browns fan. Also, having to deal with having your team shipped away to another city? B**** please.

By: Doodler

Doodler — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:26:59 +0000

I believe that this study was biased…fact is that Packer fans travel better than any other NFL fan base…including the well traveled Steeler nation…that was proven in the superbowl this year…more Packer fans showed..although it was close..I dont care what the haters think, I know the facts and the nation does too…some just choose to ignore it

By: DevilDon

DevilDon — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 05:31:52 +0000

Fans come in all sizes, shapes and ages. I watched this team through the 70′s and 80′s so nobody can ever question my loyalty.
You could question whether they’d ever see another Super Bowl they were that bad for years. I know the Packers have had alot of success, but they’ve also had alot of really hard times. Pittsburgh fans seem to want to forget that franchise was around for a long time, they just concentrate on the present, Packers fans don’t have that problem, we remember it all, the glory, the greatness.
Packers fans are the best with visiting fans, because we understand.
The only franchise I’d even consider close is Pittsburgh, but it’s obvious the best fan base in the world is Packer fans.

By: nurseratchett

nurseratchett — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:09:51 +0000

Ridiculous!!!!

Blasphemy!!!

Pack fans tailgait in blizzards, keep the stadium to capacity until the end of every game with a fuck you to the wind chill, and no team could ever have the waiting list for season seats such is that in Green Bay.

GO PACK GO!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Boston

Boston — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:11:26 +0000

I’m posting again just because I can’t stress enough how terrible Pats fans are. Easily in the bottom 10 of the league.

By: Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:02:57 +0000

in 06, we get shut out 34-0 by the patriots…our fans didn’t leave.

in the playoffs, brett favre meltsdown and throws a billion interceptions…our fans didn’t leave.

in 2010, The Patriots blow out the bengals in wk1, the patriot’s fans leave at halftime….wk2 tom brady calls out his own fanbase…

By: Jdog

Jdog — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:47:07 +0000

Does this poll consider Packer fans before or after the deadwood jumped ship with Favre?

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By: J.R. Augustine

J.R. Augustine — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:00:54 +0000

I’ll bet all those teams put together don’t have the same waiting list as Packer fans.