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Best Cities For Football Fans 2020: Charlotte Makes The List
A new report ranked more than 240 U.S. cities based on different levels of football fandom. See how Charlotte finished.
With the Super Bowl right around the corner, football fans across the nation are gearing up to watch the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
You might consider yourself an avid fan of the sport, but have you ever wondered how Charlotte compares with other metros across the country in its football passion?
The personal finance website WalletHub recently released its “2020’s Best & Worst Cities For Football Fans.”
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Charlotte finished No. 23 on the overall list:
- Professional Football Rank: No. 23
- College Football Rank: No. 190
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ranked as the best city for football fans in the United States, according to WalletHub, followed by Boston, Massachusetts, and Dallas, Texas.
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Here are some other highlights from the report.
The worst city for football fans in the nation? That uninspiring honor went to Brookville, New York. The bottom five were rounded out by Valparaiso, Indiana, Providence, Rhode Island, Davidson, North Carolina, and Ithaca, New York.
Buffalo, New York, finished as the city with the lowest average ticket price for an NFL game in the country. New York City edged out Los Angeles for the city with the least-engaged NFL fans in the nation.
The ranking compared more than 240 U.S. cities with at least one college or professional football team across 21 key metrics of fan friendliness, including average ticket price, number of NFL championships and college football fan engagement.
Each relevant metric was then listed with its corresponding weight, and the cities were graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the best possible city for a football fan.
Here are the 10 best football cities for fans, according to WalletHub.
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 63.11
- Boston, Massachusetts: 56.15
- Dallas, Texas: 53.44
- Green Bay, Wisconsin: 53.22
- New York, New York: 48.38
- New Orleans, Louisiana: 47.8
- Miami, Florida: 46.63
- San Francisco, California: 45.64
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 43.26
- Oakland, California: 42.59
The full report on football fandom is available at WalletHub.
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