Do you realize the Bills play a game a year in Toronto because their fan base stretches all the way to Canada? How is that a bad thing?
But yet you laugh at the Saints, who fanbase is basically the Gulf Coast Region (Stretching to Florida) and same team who was top 5 attended team on road. You have no one what you talking about.
But yet you laugh at the Saints, who fanbase is basically the Gulf Coast Region (Stretching to Florida) and same team who was top 5 attended team on road. You have no idea what you talking about.
I know that. That's why I said Top 10. Saints will never have a following like a Cowboys, Steelers, Packers, or Niners. However, I'm not going to front that on our fanbase is deep (overlook, tbh.) We got mad fans in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and DC. Mainly because the most New Orleanians found better pastures outside the boot. Add that to the regional territory, it pretty good.
The Falcons have a core fanbase, its not their fault that ATL is mostly transplants. They now starting to win consistently, the transplants starting to convert over. If this happen in 80s or the 90s, they would have the Niners following tbh.
@ Browns, Bills, and Pats having fan bases around the nation. Saints is supported more nationally than those three. Pats is regional but betcha you won't find one outside of new england repping hard since the Tony Eason days. You can find a Saints fan reppin since Dave Wilson in Texas, ATL or DC
And that's why the Falcons aren't in the discussion. They basically CAN'T be in the discussion because they simply have t been around long enough. Add te transplant factor and you have an extremely young fan base. 3rd in Atlanta behind the Braves and that college football team in Athens.
The Falcons' peak was probably in the early 90's when Deion had MC Hammer and all that but that didn't last and even if it did, there were franchises whose fan base was deeply rooted decades before that.
The Falcons have no place in this discussion and that's jut the reality.
I'll always respect the Saints fans for showing up wearing paper bags on their heads. At least they were there.
But the top 10, in no particular order, is probably Cowboys, Redskins, Packers, Steelers, 49ers, Browns, Bills, Patriots, Raiders and Bears.
@AVXL this has nothing to do with attendance since 2008 and everything to do with overall support across the nation since the inception of the NFL.
While I respect your opinion,
I beg to differ. I've never been to Boston yet I've met plenty of Pats fans. I meet Bills fans in every city I go to.
First off the initial discussion of this thread for mebwas about top 10 Coli NFL fanbases. That's why the Falcons & Saints were mentioned b/c they are two of the top fanbases on this site. In general, no the Falcons aren't among the top NFL fanbases, but that was never the point. You kept slip sliding & moving the goal posts on the discussion when all you really were doing was parroting tired cliches on Atlanta sports & Atlanta fans.
And I will continue to correct you that the Falcons are the most popular pro team in Atlanta. I'm born & raised in Atlanta and follow all the teams closely. Falcons get more support than the Braves
The Thrashers situation was complicated b/c even tho there wasn't good attendance, the team was barely a decade old & spearheaded by terrible management & ownership (hello Atlanta Spirit Group). There were more factors at work for why it didnt succeed including the NHL.
I see you didn't respond to what a fanbase is either. No need now. You can take your uninformed ass & keep it moving tho
Wrong. I told you exactly what a fan base is, and it's not based on attendance since 2008. Don't get mad at me because no one gives a fukk about the Falcons.
This isn't to be taken as Gospel but to just give yall an idea of where the browns are with their fan base. These numbers aren't exact cause the browns are in the six figures easily now. The rankings are interesting 
