Which NFL Team Has The Most Foul-Mouthed Fans?

By Bill Speros May 27th, 2025 2:15 PM EDT

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In the raucous world of professional football, fandom is often defined by passion, loyalty—and sometimes, profanity. 

Which NFL team has the most foul-mouthed fans? 

Bookies.com analyzed a sample of 1,000 user comments from each of the 32 official NFL team subreddits (via Reddit.com) since the start of last season to determine which fanbase has the most profane fans – at least when it comes to voicing their opinions in public. 

Your winner . . . the New York Jets. 

The last time the Jets won a Super Bowl, man had yet to land on the moon, Lyndon Johnson was president, and no one had ever heard of MRIs or cell phones.

That was January of 1969. 

Gang Green has led fans on a 50-plus-year journey of frustration ever since. 

What has a half-century of failure done to their souls? How can they express the pain? The anger? 

Profanity. 

It might not be the most refined of reactions. But it helps. 

Here is our ranking of NFL fan bases based on the use of profanity on their respective team subreddits in the past year. The teams are ranked in descending order from the most-used profanity to the least-used per 1,000 posts. 

Jets Fans No. 1 When It Comes To Using Profanity 

And the Jets fan base ranks at No. 1 when it comes to the frequency of profane language. 

The late George Carlin set the standard for profanity with his infamous "Filthy Words" routine from the 1973 album “Occupation: Foole.” It riffed on a list of seven curse words the FCC banned on radio and television. 

We used those words – and their derivatives – as the baseline for our survey. 

Last season, the Jets offered their fans plenty of reasons to opt for those seven dirty words. 

Among the lowlights: 

• Getting spanked by former Jets No. 3 overall pick Sam Darnold and the Vikings in a 23-17 loss across in London as Aaron Rodgers threw 3 picks.
• Firing head coach Robert Saleh and GM Joe Douglas 
• Losing 9 of 10 and 11 out of 13 games midseason
• Clinching their 9^th consecutive losing season in Week 13
• The decision to move on from Rodgers in February 

Not all profanity skews negative. Undoubtedly, joyful expletives followed the firings of Saleh and Douglas. 

Among the threads found on the Jets subreddit: “(Expletive) Woody” – i.e. owner Woody Johnson; “I’m (expletive) speechless” – posted during the Jets' 37-15 loss to the Steelers on Oct. 20; and the classic “I can’t take it anymore.” 

That includes the following: 

“I chose this team because my dad liked it, and I will die with this team, but I just can’t anymore, man, this team loves to hype me up and (expletive) me over and over again, along with every other dedicated fan. “

Eagles Fans Celebrate With Expletives

But there is also joy in profanity. To wit: the No. 2 team on our list: the Super Bowl 59 champion Philadelphia Eagles. 

Now, given that profanity is part of the daily nomenclature for many whose DNA lies in the Northeast, this may not come as a complete surprise. 

But the Eagles struggled early in 2024. They were 2-2 at their Week 5 bye, having lost a pair of games to NFC foes. 

That bye gave their fans plenty of opportunity to unload their frustrations on social media, talk radio (on tape delay, of course), and in their subreddit. 

After the bye, the Eagles won 10 straight and iced the NFC North. Philly tush-pushed past Green Bay 22-10 in the Wild Card Round. Ironically, that score matched the unsuccessful vote by NFL owners led by the Packers and Commissioner Roger Goodell to overturn said Tush Push on May 21. 

The Eagles would demolish Kansas City 40-22 in the Super Bowl. 

Bills Fans Express Their Pain At No. 3 

The pain of the Bills Mafia manifested itself in our survey at No. 3. 

The Bills’ high hopes crashed at the feet of Patrick Mahomes and Taylor Swift in the AFC Championship Game. It was Buffalo’s fourth postseason loss to the Chiefs in five seasons. 

It triggered this missive:

“My (expletive) aunt has never followed football before, like 3 years ago, because her newest bf is a big football fan. She just HAD to pick the Chiefs and now posts all the (expletive) time on Facebook about her favorite team. She can name 3 players on the Chiefs: Mahomes, Kelce, and Swift. I hate her.”

That loss came a week after Josh Allen’s all-world performance against the Ravens in the Divisional Round. Ravens coach John Harbaugh called Buffalo a “city of losers” prior to that game. 

That unleashed a fusillade of profanity on every available platform. 

But not nearly as much as losing to the Chiefs – again. 

And the least profane fan bases in the NFL?

Kansas City and Green Bay

Taylor Swift and Vince Lombardi wouldn’t have it any other way. 

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