What Is The Most Liked NFL Team?

The NFL is one of the most popular sports leagues in the United States, and many fans have strong opinions about which team is the best. While there are a few teams that stand out as the most liked, there is no clear consensus about which team is number one.

Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) North division. It is the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, dating back to 1919, and is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. Home games have been played at Lambeau Field since 1957.

The Packers are the last of the “small town teams” which were common in the NFL during the league’s early days of 1922 and 1960. Founded in 1919 by Earl “Curly” Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, the franchise traces its lineage to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896. Between 1919 and 1920, the Packers competed against other semi-pro clubs from around Wisconsin and Michigan, before joining the American Professional Football Association (APFA), now known as the National Football League (NFL), in 1921. Although Green Bay is by far the smallest major league professional sports market in North America, Forbes ranked the Packers as being worth $1.188 billion in July 2016, making them fourth among NFL franchises after Dallas Cowboys ($4 billion), New England Patriots ($3.2 billion), and Washington Redskins ($2.85 billion).

New England Patriots

There is no other team in the NFL that has enjoyed as much success as the New England Patriots over the past two decades. The team has won six Super Bowls, and their fans have become some of the most passionate and loyal in all of sports. It’s no surprise, then, that the Patriots are also the most liked team in the NFL, according to a recent poll.

Pittsburgh Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC.

In contrast to their status as perennial Super Bowl contenders, the Steelers have an extensive history of bad luck in the playoffs. They have lost more conference championship games (8) than any other team and are tied with the Denver Broncos for the most losses in AFC Championship Games (5). They have had five coaches since 1969 – Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher, Kevin Gilbride, Bill Cowher again, and Mike Tomlin – each of whom has led them to at least one conference championship game. Almost uniquely among major professional sports teams, they have had no primary owner: The Rooney family holds 32% of stock while several small shareholders own most of the remainder.

Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team is headquartered in Frisco, Texas, and plays its home games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which opened for the 2009 season. The stadium took the place of the partially demolished Texas Stadium, which served as the Cowboys’ home from 1971 through the 2008 season.

The Cowboys joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1960. The team’s national following might best be represented by its NFL record of consecutive sell-outs. The Cowboys’ streak of 160 sold-out regular and post-season games began in 2002. The franchise has made it to eight Super Bowls, tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Denver Broncos for second most Super Bowl appearances in history, just behind the New England Patriots record eleven Super Bowl appearances. This has also corresponded to eight NFC championships, most in NFC history. They are also the only NFL team to record 20 straight winning seasons (1966–85),in which they missed only four playoffs during that 20-year period since the AFL–NFL merger (1970).