NFL's Funniest Fanbases Ranked: All 32 Teams Rated for Comedy in 2025-26

By Jim Tomlin

Feb 5th, 2026 5:15 PM EST

A Bills fan wearing a Grinch mask is about right for a franchise that has come so close to a title so often. (Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images)

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The NFL takes itself very seriously – Protect The Shield and all that.

But that doesn’t mean fans have to be so serious. Even as NFL betting peaks this Sunday with the Super Bowl 60 matchup between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, the whole point for fans should be to have fun.

So we set about ranking the NFL’s funniest fans, with the methodology explained below.

NFL’s Funniest Fanbases Ranked

The NFL's Funniest Fans Matrix scores all 32 fan bases across four categories on a 1-10 scale. Self-Deprecation measures a fan base's ability to laugh at their own suffering – think Browns bag masks and Lions’ existential dread. Internet Troll evaluates meme creation and online chaos, where the Lions' social media team reigns supreme. Trash Talk assesses in-person heckling and roasting ability, with Eagles fans leading the charge. Absurd Traditions rates the weirdness of gameday rituals, from Bills Mafia table-smashing to Packers cheeseheads. Rankings were compiled using social media engagement data, viral moment tracking (2020-2025), and national media coverage of fan culture. Teams are classified into tiers from S (33+) to D (below 21), with half-point increments breaking ties based on recency and national recognition.

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Why Would an NFL Fanbase Be Funny?

It's easy to draw a definite pattern.

We are just speculating, but it’s easy to draw a definite pattern.

Look at the top three teams on our list: The Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns. What do they all have in common?

First, none of those teams have ever won a Super Bowl. The Bills, famously, made it to the big game four years in a row in the early 1990s. Buffalo lost all four in excruciating fashion. As for the Lions and Browns, they were the two best teams in football ... in the early to mid 1950s. Neither franchise has ever won a Super Bowl or even played in one after 60 years. Don’t bother asking Browns or Lions fans what it feels like to be kings of the NFL; they likely would have to ask their parents or grandparents. They are in permanent “wait until next year” mode for NFL futures considerations.

Second, all three teams play in cold-weather cities, with only Detroit playing indoors (teams fourth through sixth on our list also play outdoors in cold weather). Football is unique among sports because being asked to survive snow drifts and freezing temperatures during games is normal as a fan. In fact, it’s a badge of honor. You must have a sense of humor to not only subject yourself to that weather for several hours to yell for (or at) your team, but to pay hundreds of dollars for the privilege.

Third, all three of our top teams have far more successful archrivals. The Lions are in the NFC North with the Green Bay Packers, who have earned a record 13 league championships since 1929 including four Super Bowls – remember, Green Bay is called Titletown. The Bills are in the AFC East with the New England Patriots, the best franchise of the 2000s with six Super Bowls and aiming for a record seventh on Sunday. Who else owns six Vince Lombardi Trophies? The Pittsburgh Steelers, which is a fact that grinds Browns fans’ gears to no end.

In our No. 1 spot for NFL's Funniest Fanbases ranked, Bills Mafia exemplifies everything about being rabid NFL fans with a sense of humor even when their team has come so close to a title before breaking their hearts every year. What else to do but laugh ? Or trash talk online? Or send one of your buddies flying through a folding table like he's CM Punk ... right, Buffalo fans?

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