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Study: Eagles fans are better than your teams' fans

Don't take my word for it... that was the finding of Forbes magazine.

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They've been called passionate and they've been called classless, but if you're selling tickets or merchandise you don't really care. Eagles fans are the most loyal in the NFL, based on attendance variance and ticket sale waiting lists.

And devotion keeps the cash registers ringing.

They explained their basic methodology.

Our final rankings were a combination of a few factors: How closely related fan attendance patterns were to winning percentage. We used what statisticians would note as the P > |t| value and checked for the mathematical confidence of that assessment; as well as the slope of the line as it went from zero wins to 16 possible wins. The sharper the slope broke downward for every point the team lost, and the faster it broke upward for every win, the less loyal fans were deemed to be. Results were controlled for league wide attendance variation.

Eagles fans topped the list with the redskins and packers rounding out the top 3. Not surprisingly, Dallas fans did not make the top 10. Could it be because of the disappearing act they do when their team doesn't play well? Could it be because most Dallas fans you meet have never even been to Texas let alone tried to buy season tickets?

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Awesome!

I just had an argument with someone at work the other day about whether or not the Eagles had the best fans in football. Now he can go argue with Forbes!

http://vimeo.com/1590229

by 700 Level on Sep 3, 2008 12:43 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

always good to have a trump card.

by Whodie126 on Sep 3, 2008 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

whatch it

trump can sue you for the use of his name

by NickPampani on Sep 3, 2008 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Tell me something I don't know....

Everyone who knows anything about football knows that the Eagles fans are the most dedicated….

by Filth2Fury on Sep 3, 2008 1:09 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Could it be because most Dallas fans you meet have never even been to Texas let alone tried to buy season tickets?

That statement hits the nail on the head.

by captain nodar on Sep 3, 2008 1:34 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Speaking of Season Tickets...


http://www.ticketwaitinglist.com/

“Since those on the waiting list are entitled to two seats, that number probably means fewer than 10 people graduate off the waiting list each year, the Eagles say.”

“The average renewal rate of Eagles Season tickets is 99.7 percent.”

Ouch.

Looking Mean in Kelly Green

by goodfella46er on Sep 3, 2008 3:05 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

steelers fans

aren’t in the top 3? i find this surprising.

"That's a [expletive] play!"

by psudrozz on Sep 3, 2008 4:00 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Steelers Fans

There is some real front-runnerism among some Steelers fans, and the diehards don’t want to admit it.

by Andrew B on Sep 3, 2008 8:33 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

+1

Dallas Sucks

by yophillybro on Sep 4, 2008 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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