A study was recently conducted to find the most NFL-obsessed states in the US. It should make big NFL news for fans. The results are surprising, as five of the top ten most obsessed states ranked are not home to an NFL football team.
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Per a press release, onlinecasinos.com wanted to find out which state had the most NFL searches, which they deemed would constitute the most NFL-obsessed state. The state with the highest rate of NFL searches per its population is Delaware, with over 60,000 searches per 100,000 people:
Delaware topped the rankings with a massive 60,582 searches per 100,000 people, making it America’s most NFL-obsessed state, despite the fact it isn’t home to an NFL team. In total there are 616,974 searches for the top 50 NFL-related terms on average every month.
Out of the 50 terms that were used in the analysis, the most common search in Delaware over the past 12 months was “NFL score”. That makes it just one of six states where the top league-related search is for “NFL score”, rather than simply “NFL”. The other states that follow the same pattern are South Carolina, Mississippi, West Virginia, Montana and Wyoming.
The states with the fewest searches per population aren’t a huge surprise. Alabama is 50th. Oklahoma is 49th. Those two states have no NFL team but have college football powerhouses with the University of Alabama and the University of Oklahoma, respectively.
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Tennessee is something of an outlier in the NFL world. The Volunteer State is home to the Tennessee Titans. However, they rank 45th in searches per population, the worst of any state in the US that is home to an NFL team. The Titans might want to start winning some big playoff games if they want their fanbase to improve.
NFL News: The top ten most NFL-obsessed states
Per onlinecasinos.com, below are the top ten rankings for the most NFL-obsessed states:
| State | Average monthly NFL-related searches | Population | Searches per 100k | |
| 1 | Delaware | 616,974 | 1,018,396 | 60,583 |
| 2 | Nevada | 1,871,688 | 3,177,772 | 58,899 |
| 3 | Maryland | 3,507,188 | 6,164,660 | 56,892 |
| 4 | Pennsylvania | 7,057,152 | 12,972,008 | 54,403 |
| 5 | North Dakota | 423,836 | 779,261 | 54,389 |
| 6 | New Mexico | 1,124,380 | 2,113,344 | 53,204 |
| 7 | Colorado | 3,046,784 | 5,839,926 | 52,172 |
| 8 | Hawaii | 743,901 | 1,440,196 | 51,653 |
| 9 | South Dakota | 468,519 | 909,824 | 51,496 |
| 10 | Minnesota | 2,931,387 | 5,717,184 | 51,273 |
Four of the top ten states don’t even have a population of one million people. But they seem to enjoy watching a game played in big cities.
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