Denver Named One of WalletHub's 2015’s Best Cities for Football

With Super Bowl XLIX just days away and football being the most followed sport in the U.S., the leading personal finance social network WalletHub followed up on its Super Bowl XLIX By the Numbers infographic with an in-depth analysis of 2015’s Best & Worst Cities for Football Fans.
To identify the best cities for football fans, WalletHub analyzed 142 U.S. cities with at least one college or professional football team based on 11 key metrics, ranging from the number of NFL and college football teams to average ticket prices.
 

	Best Cities for Football Fans			Worst Cities for Football Fans
	1	Green Bay, WI		133	El Paso, TX
	2	East Lansing, MI		134	Norfolk, VA
	3	Pittsburgh, PA		135	Lexington, KY
	4	Denver, CO		136	Winston-Salem, NC
	5	Tuscaloosa, AL		137	Albuquerque, NM
	6	San Francisco, CA		138	Colorado Springs, CO
	7	Dallas, TX		139	Akron, OH
	8	Cincinnati, OH		140	Mobile, AL
	9	Boston, MA		141	Tulsa, OK
	10	Minneapolis, MN		142	Las Vegas, NV

Key Stats

• The performance level of the NFL team is four times higher in Denver than in Jacksonville, Fla.
   
• The performance level of the college football team(s) is 11 times higher in Columbus, Ohio, than in Moscow, Idaho.
   
• The average ticket price for an NFL game is two times higher in Boston than in Cleveland.
   
• The number of sports bars per capita is 37 times higher in Morgantown, W.Va., than in Evanston, Ill.
   
• The viewership rate for NFL games is three times higher in Green Bay, Wis., than in Oakland, Calif.