A little behind the scenes before really jumping into this post: We get a number of emails from a number of sources with ideas of things we could write about. Many are from other media outlets with stories, podcasts or videos on their site that they wish to have aggregated.
Others are as weird as this one. The title of the email: “Cleveland Browns Fans Among NFL’s Baldest Brotherhoods.”
As a male in his mid-40s who would be accurately described as balding (the fohawk is the new combover, folks), I
felt personally attacked, but I also immediately thought the stress of loving a team that has lost much more than it won had to be the culprit.
Nope, can’t blame the Browns for that, according to this survey of 3,000 male NFL fans, as the Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys and Indianapolis Colts (mostly successful franchises) are in the top 10:
Cold weather seems to be a pattern, as all but the Cowboys are from the northern part of the country. Interestingly, the earliest onset (27) falls to the fans of the Las Vegas Raiders, while those who follow the Los Angeles Rams don’t see balding start until 36 years old.
It is also likely that the small sample size (less than 100 fans per team on average) skews the data, but the creativity of the idea was enough for us to post here.
What are funny, comment section appropriate, reasons you can think of about why each of the top 10 fanbases above are balding?
Share your creative thoughts with us below
