It’s Super Bowl week, and several studies and fan surveys involving football have been released ahead of the big game.
One survey released by WalletHub sought to determine the best and worst cities for football fans, and Dallas was rated the second-best, just ahead of Green Bay and trailing Pittsburgh for the top spot.
“Dallas is the second-best city for football fans because it hosts the most valuable football franchise in the entire country – the Dallas Cowboys, worth a staggering $9 billion dollars,” WalletHub writes. “That value isn’t just for show, either. The Cowboys have the second-highest number of Super Bowl wins, at 5, tied with the San Francisco 49ers. Dallas has the highest number of NFC East division championship wins, too.”
The survey considered 249 U.S. cities with at least one college or pro football team and compared them based on 21 metrics, such as performance, championships, monetary value, fan engagement, total head coaches in the last decade, stadium capacity, and attendance.
Pittsburgh has more Super Bowls than Dallas and slightly more overall success with its college football program than Dallas in the last four decades.
The cities were further categorized into city sizes, where Dallas remained second to Pittsburgh among the U.S. markets with a population of 300,000 or more. Green Bay edged Buffalo for the top spot among mid-sized cities, while Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was named the best football city with fewer than 100,000 people.
Houston came in at No.26, while Waco was among the 10 worst.
WalletHub also released findings on Super Bowl data.
Tickets for Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas are about $2,000 more than the average ticket price of the last five years, going for around $8,500 each on the resale market. As such, 16.2 million people will be watching the game at a bar or restaurant, and it is expected to bring more than $1 billion in economic impact for Southern Nevada.
The cost of 30-second advertisements for the Super Bowl has also increased by a whopping 192%.
This year’s Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers features 14 total appearances by the teams, who also met in Super Bowl LIV.
According to WalletHub, 71,835 people are expected to attend the game — the most since 82,529 attended in New Jersey in 2014.
