What’s sometimes amazing in sports, is that, to a lot of people, the dislike for a particular team is stronger than the love one has for their team. Think about it. No matter what sport you’re a fan of, there’s that one team you truly despise.
Many things can drive this disdain for rival teams. Location, history, specific players or coaches, or even just a hatred for one team's success. But I’m not here to talk about any of that.
What drives a lot of people nuts about certain teams in the NFL is that team’s fans. These diehards and fair-weather frauds can drive fans of opposing teams absolutely insane. Whether it be their obnoxious antics, insufferable entitlement or just straight up scumbaggery, the people that cheer for certain teams can simply be the worst.
So I decided on Championship weekend that I’d try and piss off a few people and rank the worst fanbases in the NFL.
A quick disclaimer, this is according to me and has no data involved. Simply my opinions. If you don’t like them? Well, go suck a railroad spike and thanks for the click!
Here we go, the top five worst fanbases in the NFL according to Blind Owl:
5- Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs are number five on the list and actually they’re the newest team to crack the top five. The big difference here to the other teams is that I have no issue with the lifelong, diehard KC fans. As a matter of fact, I kind of respect them. Even though they’re one of my Broncos’ biggest division rivals, I have no ill will towards the old school fans. It’s just a good old fashioned division rivalry with a good amount of history and mutual respect.
My issue with the Chiefs fan base nowadays has more to do with the fair weather, celebrity fans. With the Chiefs having a great run as of late, all of these “fans” are coming out of the woodwork claiming they’ve been a fan for years. Bullshit. We have one person and one person only to blame for this. Taylor Swift. Travis Kelce bumping uglies with the most popular musician in the world has morphed the hatred of the Chiefs from just jealousy to a disdain for the elites that pretend to cheer them on for a few clicks and a chance to be on screen with Tay Tay. This nonsense has also led to a strange Kelce-Swifty cult that has resulted in a lot of unearned fame. I mean come on, Jason Kelce has a late night show that is abysmally unentertaining and his wife has launched a podcast. Her only talent is being married to the brother of the guy that is plowing Taylor Swift.
It’s become way too much and completely insufferable. I think I speak for everyone when I say Go Bills today.
4- Dallas Cowboys
This one is almost the exact opposite of the Chiefs. It all starts with the stupid label that the Cowboys have had for quite some time now. Calling them “America’s Team” has become like dragging wood screws over a chalkboard to me. The Cowboys haven’t been a truly winning franchise since I was born in the early 90s. If you asked Cowboys fans every year if their team is going to win the Super Bowl, they’d inevitably say yes. Then the national media seems to go right along with it and puts them on TV every week, just so they can put up a couple of big wins over inept opponents. Then they’ll collapse midway through the season and do what they’ve done since the 90s and whine about something that kept them out of the playoffs…again.
The worst part about Dallas fans is, if you asked them why they’re constantly on TV and get huge expectations from everyone, they’ll just say, “We’re the Cowboys. We’ve earned it.” No. Your team is bad, has been bad for a while, and will continue to be bad as long as Jerry Jones and you simpletons are hanging around. Cowboy fans are the snobbish, old-money, country club elites of the football world. They’ve got more money than god because of what happened in the past, and spend it just to be mediocre. They should be pissed about that, but they have a blue-beard arrogance that makes most of us hate them.
3- New England Patriots
THis entry is a product of where I live. As a non-Patriots fan living almost smack dab in the middle of New England, I’m surrounded by these people. Now, a lot of my poor feelings come from the absolutely unprecedented 20 year run of success that hijacked football for the majority of my formative years. If I had to hear “You just hate us, cause you ain’t us” one more goddamn time I was going to drown someone in a keg of Sam Adams Boston Lager. But I dealt with that by just waiting for them to fall off. I had to wait much longer than I thought, but that time has come. The Patriots are finally the bottom feeders of the NFL again, and I couldn’t be happier.
And yet, somehow, Patriots fans have become more annoying now that they stink. I didn’t think it was possible. I mean, the Patriots were the doormat of the league for the better part of their existence, then they were great, now they’re bad again. These spoiled fans are acting like it’s the end of the world. They have one of the top owners of all time, the best coach of all time and the best QB of all time and they have turned on two thirds of them and lost the QB to Tampa Bay. Shameful. Couple that with the holier-than-thou attitude with which the local media covers the team and how fans treat others. Now they also have a “second coming” mentality with every bad QB they’ve rolled out in the past few years. Cam Newton was going to breathe new life into the team, then he sucked. Mac Jones was the savior. He blows. Now Drake Maye has shown a few flashes that he might be alright and they’ve already anointed him as football Jesus. Now they’re hiring all of Bill Belichick’s disciples and trying to turn the clock back to 2004.
Patriots fans, do me a favor, ask Cowboy fans how continually trying to recreate a bygone era has gone for the last 30 years. It’s what’s going to happen if they keep this mentality going.
2- Philadelphia Eagles
Alright now we’ve come to the elite tear of the worst fan bases. I can confidently say that the worst overall group of people that cheer for a football team. I mean just in general, Eagles fans are just awful. They claim to live in the city of “brotherly love” and yet they seem to hate almost everyone. These assholes have booed children, hall of famers, their own team legends and even friggin Santa Claus. Disturbing to say the least. They've had a better than everyone attitude for decades now, even though they didn’t win a Super Bowl until Tom Brady and the Patriots out-thought themselves and let Nick Foles look like a star.
These troglodytes trash their city when they lose, when they draw, and even when they win. They’re totally soulless pukes that have driven great players from their team just because they can’t have a little patience. It’s no surprise that their team routinely chokes in big spots and the fans immediately turn on great players and coaches that could’ve brought them success. They’re also insulted by almost everything. I’m shocked that Philly fans haven’t tarred and feathered their mayor for misspelling Eagles. WHich is another thing. Any team that needs to continually spell their team's mascot is full of morons that feel a 3rd grade education is “higher learning.” These New York and Boston wannabes can go pound sand. Hopefully the Commanders beat the piss out of those choke artists later today.
1- New York Jets
Ah yes. We’ve come to number one and who I consider the worst fanbase in the NFL. Jets fans can be summed up in one simple phrase. Unearned arrogance. Jets fans just carry themselves like the upper echelon of the NFL, when the only time they’ve ever won the Super Bowl was in Super Bowl 3. And as far as Super Bowls go, it was as flukey as they come. Since then, there have been big expectations, followed by subpar football and missing the playoffs. They’re not even the most successful team that pretends to play in New York.
What comes with the unearned arrogance is a true dedication to douchiness. The Jets insist on continually hiring the “next big thing” coaches and not going with established guys that bring a positive culture to teams. Forget coaches, their owner Woody Johnson is the king of ineptitude despite having enough money to buy a Lombardi trophy. He actually refused to acquire Jerry Jeudy because his Madden rating was too low. And these moron fans still think every year is their year. The douchiness of the people in charge is no match for the QBs they bring in hoping for a get good quick scheme. Brett Favre, Zack Wilson and Aaron Rodgers just to name a few.
I’d say they win as badly as they lose, but they never win so I can’t. Even the media is entitled like in New England but without all the pesky success to go along with their elitist attitudes. At least Philly fans have at least tasted success. Jets are just as bad but somehow look down their noses at everyone. You idiots got a good head coach in Robert Saleh fired because your overpriced douchebag QB stunk. A true dumpster fire of an organization that has its fair share of fair weather fans to go along with their stupid diehard ones.
Oh yeah! Jet fans are also another group of preschoolers that feel the need to continually spell their team's mascot. You know a group of people are smart when they keep spelling a four letter word just to make sure they can still do it. They even have to put it on the jumbotron when they do it. I think that says it all.
The Jets will NEVER have success and I welcome the suffering of their terrible fan base.
So there it is. My top five worst NFL fan bases. Do you agree? Disagree? Let me know your feelings on social media or feel free to reach out via email at blindowlblogs@gmail.com.
If you don’t hear from me for a while, I wouldn’t put it past those mouth breathers in Philly or New York sending death threats. I may end up in the East River or buried underneath one of the telephone poles the police have to grease every time the Eagles win a game.
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