5 Worst NFL Fan Bases
4. Seattle
Seattle was a baseball and hoops town in the ‘90s and today is a soccer and college football town.
In between, Hawks fans love to have it both ways: Poor us, we had Rick Mirer and sucked for a long time, let’s be self-deprecating, detached, and pragmatic about it. But show these clowns the tip, and it’s combative machismo that shoots from the bro-nads.
The team’s homefield advantage stems from pre-sets that have nothing to do with the fans: geography as it relates to other NFL cities, climate, a recent rise in hard-hitting defensive backs, and engineering that brought a synthetic loudness to CenturyLink Field.