[Alberta's Child]

If you measure attendance as a percentage of seats available, Tampa ranked #25 and Jacksonville ranked #27 I the NFL in 2015. The five worst teams (#28 through #32) were Cleveland, Tennessee, Washington (alarming, considering the size of the market and the team's playoff spot), Oakland, and St. Louis. Even Dallas only ranked #26, which shows how transient the NFL fan base is when the costs are high.

The numbers I would find most disturbing as an NFL executive are the Giants (#18) and Jets (#21). These two teams play in the biggest market, and they used to have waiting lists for season tickets that numbered in the tens of thousands and took decades to clear.

[discostu]

Notice those are all bottom feeder teams, the only two of which who’ve made the playoffs recently largely doing so because somebody has to win the NFC East. I think all those teams are under 500 for the 21st century, most WAY under. Plays right into what I said, watching your team get killed isn’t fun, especially not when it’s expensive.

Of course with all the money they get from the TV contracts, attendance is really pure gravy money.