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To: Don01022 who wrote (86981)9/25/2025 12:43:21 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 90444
 
Ahh... good catch. Of course, the only people who still like the Steelers these days are retirees who live in the Phoenix area who use bongs.

In all seriousness, growing up in CT, you would think all my friends were Jets or Giants fans. Wrong. Many were Cowboys, Steelers, Miami, and San Fran fans. Obviously those were the top teams back then. I therefore asked ChatGPT to give me the modern day equivalent:

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Here’s the best data-backed top 10 for “most fans outside the home city,” using county-by-county dominance from Vivid Seats plus corroborating national fan-map datasets. Only Vivid Seats publishes hard county counts (for the top three); the rest are based on consistent multi-source dominance outside home markets.

Top teams by nationwide county dominance
  1. Dallas Cowboys — 290 counties (No. 1 nationally). Vivid Seats+1

  2. Kansas City Chiefs — 262 counties. Vivid Seats+1

  3. Minnesota Vikings — 207 counties. Vivid Seats+1

  4. Green Bay Packers — broad non-local footprint in multiple fan maps (Upper Midwest + scattered counties nationally). noahveltman.com+1

  5. Pittsburgh Steelers — strong diaspora footprint well beyond western PA on social/Twitter county maps. noahveltman.com+1

  6. New England Patriots — sustained nationwide presence from the Brady era; show county wins far from New England in social data. TIME

  7. San Francisco 49ers — sizable non-local county wins across the West and nationally on social maps. noahveltman.com

  8. Philadelphia Eagles — broad travel/road presence and non-local support; strong in multiple regions outside Philly. Stock Titan+1

  9. Denver Broncos — wide geographic spread across the Mountain West outside Denver’s metro counties. noahveltman.com

  10. Las Vegas Raiders — persistent national (and West-coast) following that shows up in non-local counties and travel metrics. Stock Titan

Notes & caveats

  • Vivid Seats gives exact county counts for the top three only (Cowboys/Chiefs/Vikings). The rest of the ranking reflects consistent non-local dominance across county-level social datasets and national “fan-footprint” reports (so treat 4–10 as best-supported, not exact-count). TIME+4Vivid Seats+4Vivid Seats+4

  • County dominance can overweight sparsely populated areas; it measures geographic spread, not absolute fan headcount.

- Jeff


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