Which team are you rooting for in Super Bowl LI?

[Crumpets]

Falcons - hate the Patriots, the team doesn't really have any terrible characters or scandals AFAIK, and I have a couple friends in Atlanta.

[Crumpets]

Patriots because they're from the more liberal area.

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[Crumpets]

So I was inspired by this thread to try to figure out the rough political leanings of the different fan bases (although I agree that NFL fandom would probably skew Republican as a whole. So I'm plugging the votes of these county breakdowns for the different teams from 2014 into excel with the 2016 election results:



I'm working my way from West to East and here's what I have so far:

Raiders - D+38
49ers - D+28
Chargers - D+11
Seahawks - D+10
Cardinals - R+4
Broncos - R+11
Chiefs - R+25

The only problem is that the map is from 2014, so the Rams, Chargers, and Raiders were all still at their old locations. I have a lot more data, though, and some of the results are pretty interesting. For example, third parties did well enough in Broncos territory that trump didn't manage a majority of the vote, despite winning by 11 points. I might give this it's own thread at the end.