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30,000+, thats more fans than a few teams get at their actaul games. I've been a steeler fan my entire life, was 11 for super bowl XXX and cried my eyes out after that loss. thought i may never get to see them here again. 10yrs later, I am in complete euphoria. The love steeler fans have for their team i would imagine is pretty unique. so this is an honest question, are there better fans than steeler fans?

 
They broke the nfl record this year for local ratings. It was held by the Packers from a few years ago. Even in the average/bad years Three Rivers was sold out. I love watching the packers because their fans remind me alot of the Pittsburgh base of fans.

30,000+, thats more fans than a few teams get at their actaul games. I've been a steeler fan my entire life, was 11 for super bowl XXX and cried my eyes out after that loss. thought i may never get to see them here again. 10yrs later, I am in complete euphoria. The love steeler fans have for their team i would imagine is pretty unique. so this is an honest question, are there better fans than steeler fans?
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30,000+, thats more fans than a few teams get at their actaul games. I've been a steeler fan my entire life, was 11 for super bowl XXX and cried my eyes out after that loss. thought i may never get to see them here again. 10yrs later, I am in complete euphoria. The love steeler fans have for their team i would imagine is pretty unique. so this is an honest question, are there better fans than steeler fans?
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I still put Green Bay at the top of the list.Good luck at the SB.

 
30,000+, thats more fans than a few teams get at their actaul games.  I've been a steeler fan my entire life, was 11 for super bowl XXX and cried my eyes out after that loss.  thought i may never get to see them here again.  10yrs later, I am in complete euphoria.  The love steeler fans have for their team i would imagine is pretty unique.  so this is an honest question, are there better fans than steeler fans?
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I still put Green Bay at the top of the list.Good luck at the SB.
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Ill give GB their due respect, there are some great fans over there. I will also give props to cleveland fans. As a steeler fan in their division, i know how bad they are, always have been, always will be. Their fans stick through it all. very impressive.
 
The Steelers certainly have great fans. So do the Packers, Redskins, and several other teams. But let's not forget the one thing they all have in common - sustained success.I tip my hat off more to Browns fans.

 
The Packers sold out an intra squad scrimmage 2 years in a row now during the pre-season at Lambeau.Yes I said Intra-squad scrimmage.

 
I'm more impressed by a Browns fan or a Detroit fan or an Arizona fan that continues to stick by their team. Pittsburgh is a large market team that's had continued success over three decades. Seems like an easy team for a fan to like :shrug: . Overall though I think Pitt has a lot of true football fans as opposed to other popular teams where some of their fans have a tendency to be misinformed/non-informed about football in general.I'm under the assumption that we are isolating this discussion to football fans because european soccer fans are off the charts loyal and active (and to some degree a bit mental ;) ).

 
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Detroit Lions.

26-59 over the last 5 years

1 playoff win in 50 years

NO subpar bowl apperances

SELL OUT EVERY GAME
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SELL OUTS, YESAttendance? NOT EVEN CLOSE. There were alot of empty seats during the Lions game I saw on TV each week. I espicially remeber the Vikings game, the place looked half empty.

 
Detroit Lions.

26-59 over the last 5 years

1 playoff win in 50 years

NO subpar bowl apperances

SELL OUT EVERY GAME
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SELL OUTS, YESAttendance? NOT EVEN CLOSE. There were alot of empty seats during the Lions game I saw on TV each week. I espicially remeber the Vikings game, the place looked half empty.
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I am a Cowboys fan so the Steelers are my mortal enemy but I think the Steelers have one of the best fan bases of any sport. Great fans.

 
Detroit Lions. 

26-59 over the last 5 years

1 playoff win in 50 years

NO subpar bowl apperances

SELL OUT EVERY GAME
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SELL OUTS, YESAttendance? NOT EVEN CLOSE. There were alot of empty seats during the Lions game I saw on TV each week. I espicially remeber the Vikings game, the place looked half empty.
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The Ford family is buying up the extra seats.
 
Some of the best no doubt. I think Packers, Chiefs, Lions, and Browns fans are just as enthusiastic but in three cases just have less to show for it. Giants, Pats, Raiders, and Broncos also have really good fans but I'd put them a notch below the others based on observations over time. You can tell who has the best fans when they stink for three or four straight years. I left out a few other teams but we'd be here forever.

 
Detroit Lions. 

26-59 over the last 5 years

1 playoff win in 50 years

NO subpar bowl apperances

SELL OUT EVERY GAME
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SELL OUTS, YESAttendance? NOT EVEN CLOSE. There were alot of empty seats during the Lions game I saw on TV each week. I espicially remeber the Vikings game, the place looked half empty.
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:no:
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The Ford family is buying up the extra seats.
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They sold out this year 15 minutes after opening up to the public. So this is incorrect. I know, I was trying to get tickets to the lousy Ravens game and had to get them on E-Bay.
 
Better? :lmao:

It's called you live in Pittsburgh and have nothing better to do...see the Midwest.
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All I need to know about "sports fans" on the West Coast:LA (NFL): Gone since 1994.

LA Galaxy (MLS-soccer): 2005- Averaged over 25,000 fans per game, including 8 sellouts (27,000 fans).

 
http://www.realfootball365.com/nfl/article...rbowl300106.php
Steelers are in many ways the "real" America's teamBy Darrell Laurant ; 01/30/06In this age of mobility pro football fans often find themselves a long way from the team of their dreams. You'll discover Minnesota Vikings' supporters among the snowbirds of Florida, Indianapolis Colts' supporters working the oil rigs of Louisiana, Atlanta Falcons diehards in San Francisco.Nevertheless, there seem to be only four NFL clubs with a viable claim to the title "America's team." One is the Dallas Cowboys, who actually called themselves America's Team at one point before a backlash developed. The others are the Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers. (sorry, Dolphins, Broncos and Giants fans).All NFL teams have fan clubs but the Packers, Steelers, Raiders and Cowboys have fan armies. Cheeseheads and Terrible Towels have become American institutions, and the sinister-looking Oakland Raider logo is worn proudly by teen-aged mall rats across America.So which of those four standard bearers is currently the most popular pro football team in America? No contest -- the one that's still left standing. There's no question that thousands of football fans have clambered aboard the Steeler bandwagon ("Big Ben! Big Ben!") as their own teams have fallen by the wayside.After all, it's hard not to be seduced by the way in which Bill Cowher's team made it to the Super Bowl, winning three straight post-season games on the road.On the road, but not without friends, because Steelers fans show up in force wherever their team plays. In the next-to-last regular season contest at Cleveland, there was almost as much black and gold in the stands as brown.Pittsburgh radio personality Scott Paulsen has an interesting theory about this. Recently, he spelled it out on one of the Steeler fan sites:"The last memories most unemployed steel workers had of their towns had a black and gold tinge. The good times remembered all seemed to revolve, somehow, around a football game. Sneaking away from your sister's wedding reception to go downstairs to the bar and watch the game against Earl Campbell and the Oilers -- going to midnight mass, still half in the bag after Pittsburgh beat Oakland -- you and your grandfather, both crying at the sight of The Chief, finally holding his Vince Lombardi Trophy."And then, the mills closed. Damn the mills.""One of the unseen benefits of the collapse of the value systems our families believed in – that the mill would look after you through thick and thin – was that now, decades later, there is not a town in America where a Pittsburgher cannot feel at home. Nearly every city in the United States has a designated “Black and Gold” establishment. From Bangor, Maine to Honolulu, Hawaii, and every town in between can be found an oasis of Iron City, chipped ham and yinzers. It's great to know that no matter what happened in the lives of our Steel City refugees, they never forgot the things that held us together as a city -- families, food, and Steelers football."But there's more to this than simply the yearning of displaced persons -- otherwise, the New Orleans Saints would have been America's team this season.And it's not as though the Pittsburgh Steelers win all the time -- except for an unsuccessful appearance in the 1995 Super Bowl (Neil O'Donnell is still equated with the devil in Western Pennsylvania after feeding three interceptions to Larry Brown of Dallas that day), the franchise has been solid but unspectacular since 1979. There are no superstars on this year's squad, either.Yet something about this team breeds loyalty. Do a Google search for "Steeler bars" -- places where Pittsburgh football is shown on Sundays and no one would dare turn the channel -- and you'll come up with literally hundreds. There are 22 such establishments in Georgia, for example. And you can root for the Steelers with like-minded lunatics in such unlikely places as New Zealand, Costa Rica, Belfast, Shanghai and Iraq (on an American military base).The town of Washington, PA, a Pittsburgh suburb, even changed its name to Steeler, PA for Super Bowl week.“It's not really official or anything,” the mayor said. “We're going to change back after the game.”But then again, if the Pittsburgh Steelers win, anything is possible.
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2 generations have become diehards due to the Steelers good fortunes. Their fanbase is similar to the Chicago Bulls, whose message board memberships boggle the mind. Moral of the story, if your team has had a dynasty, the fans will follow...

 
Weather.com shows a 52 degree high yesterday and 46 today - they call that freezing in Pittsburgh? Try grilling brats in a Lombardi ave. parking lot when its -20.

 
Weather.com shows a 52 degree high yesterday and 46 today - they call that freezing in Pittsburgh? Try grilling brats in a Lombardi ave. parking lot when its -20.
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The rally that the OP mentions was last Friday, when it was 16 low / 40 high. Maybe not Green Bay cold, but not incorrect to say freezing.
 
Weather.com shows a 52 degree high yesterday and 46 today - they call that freezing in Pittsburgh? Try grilling brats in a Lombardi ave. parking lot when its -20.
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The rally that the OP mentions was last Friday, when it was 16 low / 40 high. Maybe not Green Bay cold, but not incorrect to say freezing.
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Actually, it was a pretty nice day last Friday. As a matter of fact, given what the weather can be like here in late January, it was a REAL nice day here on Friday. Calling it "freezing" is a pretty big stretch IMO.
 
Weather.com shows a 52 degree high yesterday and 46 today - they call that freezing in Pittsburgh? Try grilling brats in a Lombardi ave. parking lot when its -20.
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The rally that the OP mentions was last Friday, when it was 16 low / 40 high. Maybe not Green Bay cold, but not incorrect to say freezing.
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Actually, it was a pretty nice day last Friday. As a matter of fact, given what the weather can be like here in late January, it was a REAL nice day here on Friday. Calling it "freezing" is a pretty big stretch IMO.
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I wasn't there, just going by this .
 
Weather.com shows a 52 degree high yesterday and 46 today - they call that freezing in Pittsburgh? Try grilling brats in a Lombardi ave. parking lot when its -20.
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The rally that the OP mentions was last Friday, when it was 16 low / 40 high. Maybe not Green Bay cold, but not incorrect to say freezing.
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Actually, it was a pretty nice day last Friday. As a matter of fact, given what the weather can be like here in late January, it was a REAL nice day here on Friday. Calling it "freezing" is a pretty big stretch IMO.
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I couldn't agree more. I just wore a light jacket to work that day. My wife and I both commented when I got home from the office what a beautiful day it was and that the Steelers were fortunate to have such a nice day for their pep rally.Still, 30,000 was an impressive number.... but they didn't fight the ice and sleet to be there.

 
SI estimated there were about 15,000 Steeler fans at Invesco for the AFCC a week ago Sunday. That's just unbelievable.I went to a game in Jacksonville last season (the Sunday Night showdown) and the stadium was probably damn near split 50/50 Jags and Steelers fans. On the way from the parking lot to the stadium, there were two Jags fans surrounded by about 15-20 jersey-clad Steelers fans (myself anf my GF included) - and I heard this exchange :Jag Fan #1 - "What city are we in again?"Jag Fan #2 (shaking his head) - "This......... this is f---ing embarrassing, man."I asked the guys if this was commonplace to see the home fans overwhelmed in Jacksonville, and they gave me a resounding "no." One guy said he'd never seen anything like it in Jacksonville.Steeler fans ARE the best fans, I am convinced. No one has more fans all over the country, and no fan base travels like the Steelers.

 
SI estimated there were about 15,000 Steeler fans at Invesco for the AFCC a week ago Sunday. That's just unbelievable.

I went to a game in Jacksonville last season (the Sunday Night showdown) and the stadium was probably damn near split 50/50 Jags and Steelers fans. On the way from the parking lot to the stadium, there were two Jags fans surrounded by about 15-20 jersey-clad Steelers fans (myself anf my GF included) - and I heard this exchange :

Jag Fan #1 - "What city are we in again?"

Jag Fan #2 (shaking his head) - "This......... this is f---ing embarrassing, man."

I asked the guys if this was commonplace to see the home fans overwhelmed in Jacksonville, and they gave me a resounding "no." One guy said he'd never seen anything like it in Jacksonville.

Steeler fans ARE the best fans, I am convinced. No one has more fans all over the country, and no fan base travels like the Steelers.
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I was there too and the lot we were tailgating in was almost all Steeler fans.
 
are there better fans than steeler fans?
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Yes.
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MSU fans :thumbup: Pack a 72,000 seat stadium to capacity, often beyond capacity, to watch a team that has 5 winning seasons in the last 15 years. I still remember watching the 2002 Notre Dame game while standing in an aisle at the top of an extremely overcrowded student section, just a week after the embarassing blowout loss to Cal.

 
SI estimated there were about 15,000 Steeler fans at Invesco for the AFCC a week ago Sunday.  That's just unbelievable.

I went to a game in Jacksonville last season (the Sunday Night showdown) and the stadium was probably damn near split 50/50 Jags and Steelers fans.  On the way from the parking lot to the stadium, there were two Jags fans surrounded by about 15-20 jersey-clad Steelers fans (myself anf my GF included) - and I heard this exchange :

Jag Fan #1 - "What city are we in again?"

Jag Fan #2 (shaking his head) - "This......... this is f---ing embarrassing, man."

I asked the guys if this was commonplace to see the home fans overwhelmed in Jacksonville, and they gave me a resounding "no."  One guy said he'd never seen anything like it in Jacksonville.

Steeler fans ARE the best fans, I am convinced.  No one has more fans all over the country, and no fan base travels like the Steelers.
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I was there too and the lot we were tailgating in was almost all Steeler fans.
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We might have been in the same lot.......
 
Alright, alright. I am the person to start this thread. I finally got a little time to come back and read through this thread. I cant believe i got my ### jumped on for saying "freezing". Just a way of saying it was cold. Obviously, for any of you in Pittsburgh, this has to be a record setting jan. weather wise, its been beautiful. And yes, it was a very nice day on friday, which is why i went to the pep rally in a hoodie and my '96 Bettis jersey (got it when i was 11 before he even played a preseason game for us, worn it to every steeler game ive been to, and most games i watch on tv, it looks all old, tattered, and very awesome). It got pretty cold though as the night went on. But at times, you couldnt even see the fans, all you could see were the terrible towels waving, it almost brought tears to my eyes. STEELER FANS ARE THE BEST THERE IS, HANDS DOWN.

 
Alright, alright.  I am the person to start this thread.  I finally got a little time to come back and read through this thread.  I cant believe i got my ### jumped on for saying "freezing".  Just a way of saying it was cold.  Obviously, for any of you in Pittsburgh, this has to be a record setting jan. weather wise, its been beautiful.  And yes, it was a very nice day on friday, which is why i went to the pep rally in a hoodie and my '96 Bettis jersey (got it when i was 11 before he even played a preseason game for us, worn it to every steeler game ive been to, and most games i watch on tv, it looks all old, tattered, and very awesome).  It got pretty cold though as the night went on.  But at times, you couldnt even see the fans, all you could see were the terrible towels waving, it almost brought tears to my eyes.  STEELER FANS ARE THE BEST THERE IS, HANDS DOWN.
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:towelwave: Believe
 
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