Cincy Jungle · Jul 1, 2019
Collegiate report has Bengals in NFL’s bottom five fanbases
David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports A recently released annual report on NFL fanbases is not loving the Cincinnati Bengals. The research was conducted by Emory University’s sports analytics professor Michael Lewis. He ranked Cincinnati as the league’s 28th best fanbase.
Hey, it’s better than 32nd, right?
The Bengals were ranked above the Jaguars, Titans, Chiefs and Rams in that order. That said, Lewis ranked the teams based on three categories which were all summed up in an overall rank.
Fan equity, social equity and road equity was at the crux of the rankings.
Here’s how a fanbase was judged by Lewis via those three aforementioned categories.
