Business First, a Buffalo-based business journal, releasedthe results of a study that gauged NFL Fan Support for the lastten years. Support factors (high average attendance, high percentof capacity, low attendance fluctuation) accounted for two-thirdsof a team's score; difficulty factors (low winning percentage, alarge number of seats per 100,000 population, high ticket cost per$10,000, chilly December temperature) accounted for one-third of ateam's score. Denver's top score of 100 is the benchmark for theother teams' ratings. ATTEND FLUX = Difference between best/worstannual attendance totals. WIN % = Team's winning poercentage from'85-94. SEATS/100K = Stadium seats per every 100,000 metroresidents. $/10K = Ratio of '94 average ticket price to every$10K of local per capita income. DEC. TEMP = The 30-year averagehigh temperature for December.
| RANK | TEAM | SCORE | AVG.
ATTEND | %
CAP | ATTEND
FLUX | WIN
% | SEATS/
100K | $/10K | DEC.
TEMP |
| 1 | DEN | 100 | 72,134 | 94.9 | 6.20% | 0.582 | 3,651 | $14.31 | 46.2 |
| 2 | CLE | 95.18 | 71,781 | 90.2 | 13.00% | 0.525 | 2,716 | $13.01 | 36.4 |
| 3 | NYG | 88.76 | 70,986 | 92.3 | 9.10% | 0.623 | 391 | $13.06 | 41.4 |
| 4 | GB | 88.33 | 53,358 | 93.1 | 12.80% | 0.431 | 7,903 | $12.74 | 28.6 |
| 5 | PHL | 87.61 | 61,878 | 93.3 | 10.50% | 0.544 | 1,082 | $17.23 | 43.2 |
| 6 | BUF | 85.26 | 70,247 | 87.5 | 52.10% | 0.566 | 6,725 | $17.33 | 33.6 |
| 7 | CHI | 76.48 | 60,114 | 90.2 | 6.00% | 0.635 | 796 | $13.83 | 35.3 |
| 8 | IND | 75.78 | 54,476 | 90.4 | 16.90% | 0.396 | 4,233 | $12.61 | 70 |
| 9 | NO | 75.71 | 62,568 | 90.1 | 29.10% | 0.56 | 5,301 | $14.77 | 70 |
| 10 | WAS | 73.47 | 52,685 | 94.5 | 8.40% | 0.566 | 816 | $14.23 | 45.2 |
| 11 | DAL | 73.19 | 58,404 | 90.6 | 23.80% | 0.522 | 1,543 | $15.14 | 58.7 |
| 12 | SF | 72.82 | 61,065 | 94.4 | 8.80% | 0.745 | 1,084 | $15.28 | 56.5 |
| 13 | CIN | 72.6 | 52,317 | 87.3 | 25.40% | 0.403 | 3,238 | $14.12 | 41.8 |
| 14 | SEA | 71.57 | 57,640 | 88.3 | 15.00% | 0.459 | 2,108 | $11.92 | 70 |
| 15 | PIT | 71.43 | 52,602 | 89.1 | 16.90% | 0.522 | 2,477 | $14.64 | 37.3 |
| 16 | MIA | 67.85 | 62,329 | 83.8 | 17.80% | 0.579 | 2,206 | $15.22 | 76.6 |
| 17 | MIN | 67.35 | 56,202 | 89.5 | 13.50% | 0.56 | 2,406 | $12.79 | 70 |
| 18 | KC | 65.74 | 61,737 | 79.1 | 41.00% | 0.528 | 4,828 | $13.92 | 40.4 |
| 19 | NYJ | 63.94 | 60,233 | 78.3 | 20.70% | 0.45 | 391 | $9.17 | 41.4 |
| 20 | SD | 61.97 | 51,086 | 84.2 | 27.60% | 0.453 | 2,339 | $16.61 | 66.1 |
| 21 | NE | 53.48 | 48,367 | 79.1 | 35.40% | 0.428 | 1,118 | $14.24 | 39.3 |
| 22 | HOU | 53.47 | 49,680 | 87.5 | 37.10% | 0.516 | 1,576 | $14.92 | 70 |
| 23 | RAM | 50 | 52,388 | 75.9 | 29.40% | 0.447 | 459 | $13.77 | 66.5 |
| 24 | TB | 44.81 | 47,235 | 63.6 | 32.00% | 0.27 | 3,526 | $15.24 | 72 |
| 25 | DET | 44.69 | 56,143 | 69.9 | 45.90% | 0.434 | 1,532 | $13.98 | 70 |
| 26 | ARZ^ | 40.52 | 47,882 | 65.9 | 39.40% | 0.357 | 3,155 | $14.56 | 66.4 |
| 27 | ATL | 39.23 | 46,457 | 73.3 | 47.90% | 0.355 | 2,278 | $12.36 | 70 |
| 28 | RAI | 38.77 | 55,261 | 63.1 | 23.10% | 0.547 | 451 | $14.80 | 66.5 |
| (^) Arizona's statistics are since the team's move in 1988. |
