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Travel Tip: Which U.S. Cities Have the Most Sports Fans?

Image Credit: Mike Morbeck

Locations in this article:  Green Bay, WI New Orleans, LA Pittsburgh, PA
Image Credit: Mike Morbeck

Image Credit: Mike Morbeck

With a full fall sports season approaching, it’s always a fun idea to do a road trip to a sporting event. But which are the best and worst cities in the U.S. for sports fans?

The personal finance website Wallethub.com decided to find out.

Its staffers researched 341 cities—both large and small—and used criteria like ticket price, a team’s overall performance, even the number of sports bars. The results might surprise you.

For starters, there’s Green Bay, Wisconsin…no surprise here. In fact, the entire city seems addicted to the Packers. Viewership of Packers games is three times higher in Green Bay than any other U.S. city.

What about New York? The average ticket price for an NBA game in New York is three times more expensive than in New Orleans.

Are you a college football fan? Northwestern’s home city lost out to West Virginia. Morgantown has 38 times more sports bars per capita than Evanston, Illinois.

Hockey fans might want to head to a Penguins game. The survey found that NHL fans in Pittsburgh are 28 times friendlier and more engaged than those in New York.

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