The Pittsburgh Steelers closed 2024 with a five-game losing skid and a humbling early exit from the playoffs. The City of Champions, however, did manage to clinch its Stairway to Seven this winter in at least one way.
For the seventh year in a row, a national poll ranked Pittsburgh as the best city for football fans.
WalletHub, a personal finance website, used 21 metrics to calculate its gridiron heirarchy, which it announced online Monday. For Pittsburgh, some of those categories left competing cities in the dust — number of Super Bowl wins and AFC divisional championships, for example. Or number of coaches in the past 10 seasons.
Dallas ranked second and Boston, third.
Kansas City, whose Chiefs will take on the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday in hopes of securing the league’s first-ever Super Bowl three-peat, came in fourth.
“Living in one of the best football cities means much more than attending games and watching your hometown team on TV every weekend in the fall,” Chip Lupo, a WalletHub analyst, said Monday.
“Faithfully following your team on social media, spending big on tickets and merchandise, and taking part in local traditions are just some of the factors that make the best football cities stand out,” Lupo added. “Having a football team with a winning culture and multiple championships doesn’t hurt, either.”
