What Are The Most Rowdy NFL Sections?

By Bill Speros Aug 11th, 2025 12:37 PM EDT

They are called the twelves, this flag is for the fans of the Seattle Seahawks. (Alamy Images)

When you’re betting an NFL game, home-field advantage is more than just travel time and turf—it’s the crowd. The right section can turn a 3rd-and-3 into a delay of game. The wrong section can make you rethink wearing an opposing jersey.

Some NFL fan zones have become legend. Cleveland’s old Municipal Stadium had the snarling “Dawg Pound.” In Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium, fans booed Santa, pelted the field with debris, and even served time in the in-stadium jail. Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium doubled as a blue-collar madhouse on the Monongahela as 50,000+ voices backed the Steel Curtain.

Those cathedrals are gone — Boom. Boom. Crash.— replaced by corporate comfort and conformity. But pockets of chaos still exist, and savvy bettors know the difference between a polite golf clap and a four-quarter roar. Today, the Kansas City Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium “Sea of Red” still shakes decibel meters, while the Buffalo Bills’ infamous “Hammer Lot” faithful bring pregame energy that carries into every snap.

Most Rowdy NFL Sections by Team

Bookies.com built a scoring system to find the NFL’s loudest, most engaged fan sections. That could rattle an opponent and potentially affect the outcome of a game.

Bookies.com developed a scoring system to find out what the rowdiest sections at each NFL stadium are – and ranked them according to how loud and engaged each of those sections gets compared to the rest of the league. We located each section in every stadium based on reports from Reddit.com and RateMySeat.com, then factored in how loud and rowdy these fans can get based on reports from StadiumJourney.com, EPSN.com and TotalProSports.com. Some sections were more specific than others, due to reports of hyper-specific sections or a general region where the energy is shared amongst local fans.

Rank	Team	Section	Total Score
1	Seattle Seahawks	Hawk’s Nest	76
2	Kansas City Chiefs	Northeast Section	72
3	Philadelphia Eagles	200s Level	65
4	Green Bay Packers	South End Zone	62
T5	Pittsburgh Steelers	End Zone Upper Deck	59
T5	Buffalo Bills	End Zone Section	59
7	New Orleans Saints	100s (Saints Side)	57
8	Minnesota Vikings	West Corner End Zone	55
9	Dallas Cowboys	Standing Room Only Area	48
10	Baltimore Ravens	527–529 Section	47
11	Denver Broncos	South Stands	46
12	New England Patriots	Lower-Level Sideline	41
13	Las Vegas Raiders	Black Hole Section	37
14	Cleveland Browns	Dawg Pound Section	36
15	Detroit Lions	Lower-Level End Zone	35
16	New York Jets	Lower-Level Sideline	31
17	Arizona Cardinals	Upper Corner Endzone	30
T18	Cincinnati Bengals	Canopy Crazies Section	29
T18	Indianapolis Colts	Lower-Level End Zone	29
20	New York Giants	End Zone Section	28
21	Chicago Bears	330–335 Section	27
22	Houston Texans	Bull Pen Section	21
23	San Francisco 49ers	C135–140 Section	20
24	Jacksonville Jaguars	North End Zone	17
25	Los Angeles Chargers	Standing Room Only Section	16
26	Los Angeles Rams	Upper 340s	15
27	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Buccaneers Cove/Pirate Ship Area	14
28	Tennessee Titans	Lower 100s Level	12
29	Miami Dolphins	Upper-Level Corner	11
30	Atlanta Falcons	200 Level	9
31	Washington Commanders	Upper Level 400s	8
32	Carolina Panthers	540–543	6

Betting takeaway: In the right section, the crowd can be worth a hidden half-point on the spread or a key third-down stop that cashes your under.

Breaking Down The Data

The Hawks Nest is located behind the north end zone in at Lumen Field in Seattle. The section contains bleacher-style seating and can hold about 3,000 fans. Those fans are near the stadium’s biggest video board, conversely putting them close to the action when replays and other video encouragements are posted. They serve in many ways as an energetic catalyst for the 12^th Man.

The Kansas City Chiefs have won 3 Super Bowls in the past 6 seasons. That sort of success spawns plenty of noise. The fans in both the upper and lower levels of the Northeast Sections of Arrowhead Stadium are the rowdiest.

While Lincoln Financial Field lacks the bare-bones ugliness, sterility, and zoo-like atmosphere of The Vet, fans in 200 level throughout the stadium do their best to continue the mayhem wrought by their ancestors.

The current-day “Dawg Pound” section in Huntington Bank Stadium, however, offers a pale imitation of its predecessor. It ranks 14^th.

Gillette Stadium lands near the middle of the pack at No. 12. Its predecessor in Foxboro bore several names over the years. What was eventually known as Foxboro Stadium met the wrecking ball after the infamous “Tuck Rule Game.” Things got so “rowdy” in Foxboro back in the day. When the Patriots met the Jets on Monday Night Football in October of 1976, more than 60 fans were arrested due to scores of alcohol-fueled brawls that occurred throughout the night. And 35 were hospitalized. Fans had to be handcuffed to chain-link fence. There would not be another Monday Night Football game in Foxboro until 1980. That night, the booze-fueled mayhem returned. More than 50 fans were arrested and more than 100 were thrown out of the stadium.