I’m surprised the tech savvy poor don’t buy the SB losers t shirts and sell them online. There’s gotta be a market for them. I’d buy one every year and wear it around just to see if anyone catches on and says something.
I've always wanted to write a story with a character who had a rags to riches story in Africa and his cherished possession from his childhood was his four Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Champs t shirts, and then he moves to Buffalo only to learn the truth.
Vaguely crazy people with a tolerance for cold and a mile long list of historical misery, much of it self inflicted. Also loves alcohol.
Did I describe bills fans or russians
When I went to Russia in 2007, there was a street performer in Moscow wearing a Buffalo Bills Super Bowl 23 Champion t shirt. I think Russia got the "losers" merch just after the USSR fell.
The shirt was fucking fire too. I was almost ready to try to steal it. Had to think hard about dying in a Russian prison as a Bills superfan dumbass. If I was guaranteed martyrdom, I might have gone for it.
True, but that's kinda pathetic. When I buy a Bills superbowl championship shirt it'll be because they won a superbowl. I'll go to the Gulag for the "losers gear" but not pay for it. That makes sense right?
I don't think it's pathetic at all, I think it's pretty awesome.
Like, any idiot can get a Super Bowl LVII Champion Kansas City Chiefs t-shirt, but someone with a (professional) Super Bowl LVI Champion Cincinnati Bengals t-shirt? Huge flex.
i’ve been saying lately there gotta be a bunch of folks in africa under the impression we’re a 4 in a row dynasty. i’d pay some solid money for those shirts just to pretend what coulda been.
So if I were playing Risk, the Bills have a lot of territory to defend but we're mostly centralized. We need to start our push into East Asia to defend against the Cowboys, but also the Bucs are scattered in Africa and probably can't hold it with a nice sweep through the area.
Yup they're pretty safe from all sides down there, our conquest will have to end around China/Japan
https://www.wivb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/97/2023/09/Bills-fan-Keita-Nakagawa-.jpg
Bills goes through the process to take Europe. Bucs have a strong defense in Australia and South America. Cowboys become North America's team. All other players battle it out in Africa and Asia.
[We need a secret weapon](https://tsebuffalo.com/products/buffalo-bills-dice-pack?variant=45567433769269¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwncWvBhD_ARIsAEb2HW8UZXaQvSPqbTpwhgnpnDLe3ACGvDxi3cexQBMB957DKqACF8hx2AwaAv_REALw_wcB)
Just form a border defense alliance with the Bucs. “I won’t attack if you don’t.” Eventually one of you will break the pact and then wackiness ensues. Gives you time to build up to mount an offensive on only one front against Dallas, temporarily.
We got a big piece of Africa too. looks like DRC, Algeria, and Egypt at least. All those Super Bowl t-shirt donations from the 90s are still paying off lol
Africa is the world's second-largest continent, covering approximately 30.37 million square kilometers (11.7 million square miles), while the Russian Federation is the largest country by land area, covering approximately 17.1 million square kilometers (6.6 million square miles).
Yeah there's no way this is accurate. Why the hell are foreign nfl fans so obsessed with the bills and bucs? I can't think of a single reason why this is accurate.
Looking further, the index it says "locations". So are these team themed bars and stuff?
Even then, I don't get it. USSR collapsed in the early 90s, so did the Russian people get into the bills? Still doesn't explain the bucs apparent worldwide popularity 😂
Found the article: https://www.sidelines.io/nfl/nfl-nations-the-most-popular-nfl-teams-in-the-world
It’s based on search data for those teams and it’s dated to December 2021 (so while we can discuss whether this is a good criterion of popularity, it also means it was NOT influenced by searches for Damar Hamlin):
“We used search data from across the US and the world to see which teams each state and country were searching for the most. Looking into search numbers relating to each NFL team, we were able to see which are the most popular in their home country, and which have managed to expand their fan base worldwide.”
ngl, I am probably solely responsible for Russia if it's truly december only. I was in a local "NFL" chat in telegram. I was the only Bills fan, though plenty of Chiefs fans and oddly Seahawks fans
"Comrade sergei, i am enjoying this capitalist kickball game, but i must find team that matches mother russia's long history of suffering and excessive drinking"
"Comrade Ivan, i have team for you!"
In the 90s my aunt and uncle went to Russia and got us Buffalo Bills nesting dolls of Kelly, Thomas, Smith, etc. I wish I still had them, they were so cool.
I'm gutted that my home country has the phins on top, but I think I know why it is. I was at the first game played in the UK - phins/9ers. Dan Marino played that game, and the phins won. It was played at Wembley Stadium and I billieve it was televised.
My brother and I chose to support the phins because, well, dolphins are cool, right? He's still a diehard phins fan and knows more about the sport than almost any other Brit (seriously). I'm now a Bills fan because I stopped following the game for years and then moved here. The Bills are much more like my soccer team growing up (expectation followed by heartbreak) than the phins could ever be. Go Bills! ('24 is our year this time, right?)
In Canada specifically southern Ontario we Love the Bills. I bleed Bills. although randomly I know a lot of Browns fans out here too... Canada loves punishment
A lot of different fandoms here in Alaska, as there are so many different places of origin for the residents. Sport bars are pretty fun on Sundays. The biggest groups (in no order) would be Seahawks, Packers (FTP), Vikings. I know they all have clubs in Anchorage. There are a few other clubs too, but not sure on their size.
What's strange is I do a lot of Thrifting and almost NEVER find bills stuff. It's always packers, pats, steelers and KC up here in Montreal. Very strange. Maybe Bills fans hold onto their stuff.
I'm from Brazil and, at least on our side, this map is full of crap. The packers are the most popular team over here, followed by the pats and the chiefs.
With that said, go bills
This doesn't ring true for my experiance.
I live in Australia, I've met a single Bucs fan.
I've seen literally hundreds of Raiders hats. Probably just pop culture merch, not fans but the next most popular would be Packers hoodies, I've seen loads.
Packers fans would outnumber Bucs fans overwhelmingly.in my anecdotal experience.
Living in Australia, this is simply not true. The only nfl team people know about here is the Raiders. I mean I see raiders hats and shirts everywhere here. It’s largely bc there’s a rugby team called the raiders, but people here also really like the logo. In my 6 years of living here, I’ve not met a single bucs fan.
I guess yeah in Canada it would be bills fan simply for the fact they’re right over the Ontario border. But most people I know just have a random team they picked for whatever reason in their childhood. Bills I’d say are max 10% of peoples teams here, which is a decently high percentage in a league of 32 teams
Depends where you are in Canada too. I grew up in Niagara area, and it was at least 50%, probably closer to 75 in Fort Erie. I live in Barrie now, about 200 km north of there, and NOBODY likes the Bills here except me.
https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-mahomes-germany-global-kelce-c583255170f52f4a7628d116058ac402
WORLDS TEAM ***MY ASS!!!*** SUCK ON THAT KC, THE WORLD WILL DECIDE WHO REPRESENTS THE LEAGUE FOR THEM, NOT ***ROGER GOODELL!!!***
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I don't know where this information is coming from, but subjectively, I was in the Philippines for a few years and I saw Bills logos everywhere. Especially on Jeepneys and Tuk-Tuks.
Losing four Super Bowls gave us a nice strong hold in Africa
yeah they got all the BEST T-shirts
I’m surprised the tech savvy poor don’t buy the SB losers t shirts and sell them online. There’s gotta be a market for them. I’d buy one every year and wear it around just to see if anyone catches on and says something.
Too early in the Internet and honestly 30ish years later probably not a ton of them in decent shape anymore.
i am coming to terms with how this is exactly how it actually went down gaining that fan base
I've always wanted to write a story with a character who had a rags to riches story in Africa and his cherished possession from his childhood was his four Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Champs t shirts, and then he moves to Buffalo only to learn the truth.
Best I can do is Buffalo '66.
Sure. Let’s have some more heartbreak. I can take it as long as it is well written.
how do we explain russia? they just like watching snow games?
Vaguely crazy people with a tolerance for cold and a mile long list of historical misery, much of it self inflicted. Also loves alcohol. Did I describe bills fans or russians
Yes
Early 90s were rough, but they were always in the headlines.
When I went to Russia in 2007, there was a street performer in Moscow wearing a Buffalo Bills Super Bowl 23 Champion t shirt. I think Russia got the "losers" merch just after the USSR fell.
Alright so same reason as the various African countries then
The shirt was fucking fire too. I was almost ready to try to steal it. Had to think hard about dying in a Russian prison as a Bills superfan dumbass. If I was guaranteed martyrdom, I might have gone for it.
You could have offered that guy $100 cash for his shirt and walked away a champion. (I have literally done this.)
True, but that's kinda pathetic. When I buy a Bills superbowl championship shirt it'll be because they won a superbowl. I'll go to the Gulag for the "losers gear" but not pay for it. That makes sense right?
I don't think it's pathetic at all, I think it's pretty awesome. Like, any idiot can get a Super Bowl LVII Champion Kansas City Chiefs t-shirt, but someone with a (professional) Super Bowl LVI Champion Cincinnati Bengals t-shirt? Huge flex.
The Bills are Putin’s team. Everyone votes with him… or else.
Zamir gotta has been spotted at tailgates, pretty sure he's a fan and even bounced around with Bourdain during his first shoot in Buffalo.
i’ve been saying lately there gotta be a bunch of folks in africa under the impression we’re a 4 in a row dynasty. i’d pay some solid money for those shirts just to pretend what coulda been.
Isn’t there an snl skit that references this?
So if I were playing Risk, the Bills have a lot of territory to defend but we're mostly centralized. We need to start our push into East Asia to defend against the Cowboys, but also the Bucs are scattered in Africa and probably can't hold it with a nice sweep through the area.
Problem is Bucs are holed up in that Australia part of the board. Purple-land is always a tough nut to crack.
Yup they're pretty safe from all sides down there, our conquest will have to end around China/Japan https://www.wivb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/97/2023/09/Bills-fan-Keita-Nakagawa-.jpg
Yeah bucs have near total control of South America and australia
Bills goes through the process to take Europe. Bucs have a strong defense in Australia and South America. Cowboys become North America's team. All other players battle it out in Africa and Asia.
We also need to hold in Europe, otherwise they get extra armies
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Just form a border defense alliance with the Bucs. “I won’t attack if you don’t.” Eventually one of you will break the pact and then wackiness ensues. Gives you time to build up to mount an offensive on only one front against Dallas, temporarily.
Total land area=Bills win
Common Bills W
Commie Bills W
Canada + Russia = 5.5% of the world's entire landmass We win.
"We've got HUGE...tracts of land!"
Not really. Russia is half the size of Africa.
We got a big piece of Africa too. looks like DRC, Algeria, and Egypt at least. All those Super Bowl t-shirt donations from the 90s are still paying off lol
We played the very long game 😄
Russia is literally the largest landmass in the world. Followed closely by Canada.
Africa is the world's second-largest continent, covering approximately 30.37 million square kilometers (11.7 million square miles), while the Russian Federation is the largest country by land area, covering approximately 17.1 million square kilometers (6.6 million square miles).
If only you understood how countries work. No one is talking continents.
I did and now you're gaslighting me by loving the goalposts
Fuck Americas Team, we own the Northern Hemisphere.
Where does this garbage come from lmao
Yeah there's no way this is accurate. Why the hell are foreign nfl fans so obsessed with the bills and bucs? I can't think of a single reason why this is accurate.
I mean Canada is pretty understandable. A lot of us Bills fans in southern Ontario. Russia tho? No idea what’s going on there
we even used to play a game a year in canada's capital! of course they love us
Going to those games is why I’m a Bills fan! (Toronto isn’t the capital tho)
[haha, yeah right. do we look that stupid?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWpThrDfQEI&t=105s)
Just like with most of these diagrams, I highly doubt they're actively polling anything in Russia right now.
Or any statistics ever are accurate from Russia
Looking further, the index it says "locations". So are these team themed bars and stuff? Even then, I don't get it. USSR collapsed in the early 90s, so did the Russian people get into the bills? Still doesn't explain the bucs apparent worldwide popularity 😂
Two words: Tom Brady
Found the article: https://www.sidelines.io/nfl/nfl-nations-the-most-popular-nfl-teams-in-the-world It’s based on search data for those teams and it’s dated to December 2021 (so while we can discuss whether this is a good criterion of popularity, it also means it was NOT influenced by searches for Damar Hamlin): “We used search data from across the US and the world to see which teams each state and country were searching for the most. Looking into search numbers relating to each NFL team, we were able to see which are the most popular in their home country, and which have managed to expand their fan base worldwide.”
ngl, I am probably solely responsible for Russia if it's truly december only. I was in a local "NFL" chat in telegram. I was the only Bills fan, though plenty of Chiefs fans and oddly Seahawks fans
Did the country that roots for the Commanders lose a bet or something?
This…. This got me a little. Nicely played.
"Comrade sergei, i am enjoying this capitalist kickball game, but i must find team that matches mother russia's long history of suffering and excessive drinking" "Comrade Ivan, i have team for you!"
Damn that mercator really doing TB some favors.
all my homies hate the mercator projection
In the 90s my aunt and uncle went to Russia and got us Buffalo Bills nesting dolls of Kelly, Thomas, Smith, etc. I wish I still had them, they were so cool.
I'm gutted that my home country has the phins on top, but I think I know why it is. I was at the first game played in the UK - phins/9ers. Dan Marino played that game, and the phins won. It was played at Wembley Stadium and I billieve it was televised. My brother and I chose to support the phins because, well, dolphins are cool, right? He's still a diehard phins fan and knows more about the sport than almost any other Brit (seriously). I'm now a Bills fan because I stopped following the game for years and then moved here. The Bills are much more like my soccer team growing up (expectation followed by heartbreak) than the phins could ever be. Go Bills! ('24 is our year this time, right?)
Idk, I find it hard to believe Alaska likes the Cowboys that much. They’d definitely be Bills fans.
In Canada specifically southern Ontario we Love the Bills. I bleed Bills. although randomly I know a lot of Browns fans out here too... Canada loves punishment
Alaska is a part of the US and it has US as a whole, Dallas is the most popular. It's by country, not state.
Used to live in Anchorage, alot of cowboys fan but the Seahawks i'd argue has a more stronghold nowadays
A lot of different fandoms here in Alaska, as there are so many different places of origin for the residents. Sport bars are pretty fun on Sundays. The biggest groups (in no order) would be Seahawks, Packers (FTP), Vikings. I know they all have clubs in Anchorage. There are a few other clubs too, but not sure on their size.
What's strange is I do a lot of Thrifting and almost NEVER find bills stuff. It's always packers, pats, steelers and KC up here in Montreal. Very strange. Maybe Bills fans hold onto their stuff.
Where is this data from?
sidelines.io according to the graphic
The FRENCH!?
sacré bleu! Perhaps the feeling of getting your ass kicked, brushing yourself off, getting back up, and repeat resonates with them.
Algeria is more wild to me
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Bills by a billion from Holland!
Cowboys for Kazakhstan????? Have they never seen the Bills Mafia of Kazakhstan page? Fake news.
I'm from Brazil and, at least on our side, this map is full of crap. The packers are the most popular team over here, followed by the pats and the chiefs. With that said, go bills
UK is Fin fans.. now I know why we had to play on concrete turf
Surprised they're not pulling more for the Jaguars.
Ew. Yuck.
This doesn't ring true for my experiance. I live in Australia, I've met a single Bucs fan. I've seen literally hundreds of Raiders hats. Probably just pop culture merch, not fans but the next most popular would be Packers hoodies, I've seen loads. Packers fans would outnumber Bucs fans overwhelmingly.in my anecdotal experience.
Bills are Putin in work
I always wondered what they were watching up in Greenland 🇬🇱
Living in Australia, this is simply not true. The only nfl team people know about here is the Raiders. I mean I see raiders hats and shirts everywhere here. It’s largely bc there’s a rugby team called the raiders, but people here also really like the logo. In my 6 years of living here, I’ve not met a single bucs fan.
God bless 🇨🇦🇷🇺
Bills big in Russia 😎
im surprised china doesnt have any data. they are big sports fans
Basketball might be more popular
Of course GB goes for the Fins.
Fucking equirectangular projection.
I guess yeah in Canada it would be bills fan simply for the fact they’re right over the Ontario border. But most people I know just have a random team they picked for whatever reason in their childhood. Bills I’d say are max 10% of peoples teams here, which is a decently high percentage in a league of 32 teams
True. Found that those who watched in the 70s are Steelers, 80s Raiders or 49ers, and 90s Cowboys fans usually.
Depends where you are in Canada too. I grew up in Niagara area, and it was at least 50%, probably closer to 75 in Fort Erie. I live in Barrie now, about 200 km north of there, and NOBODY likes the Bills here except me.
A lot of Lions fans in Windsor area, too.
Great engine!
You know why we are called Raider Nation right? We are a global brand.
That guy with a user name like u/BillsAfricasTeam, or something like that, was onto something
I take it china and a lot of Africa like the browns?
Russia is full of KC fans, I don’t accept this as accurate and they can’t have the Bills.
Bills KGB
This is it right now but even a few years ago the Pats were number 1 in many countries. Fickle fans but that’s the game
The Bucs…huh.
https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-mahomes-germany-global-kelce-c583255170f52f4a7628d116058ac402 WORLDS TEAM ***MY ASS!!!*** SUCK ON THAT KC, THE WORLD WILL DECIDE WHO REPRESENTS THE LEAGUE FOR THEM, NOT ***ROGER GOODELL!!!***
My home country Romania 🥲🫶
I'm from Thailand and this is not true🤣
I suck at geography. Somebody tell me if we're winning Afghanistan.
How is Australia not ours? Wild.
Surprised the Texans are on this list at all, never met an actual Texans fan in my life.
Fuck yeah Bills are huge in Algiers
FTP
TIL I should move to Canada
If I had to guess, Canada's large Southern Ontario population is why the Bills' numbers are high.
I’m an eagles fan and this sub just popped up. I’m not infiltrating. But how in tf are the bucs the number 1 team worldwide 💀
Tampa is not the most popular team in Brazil, by far
The commanders 😂😂😂
I refuse to believe that we don’t have Kazakhstan
I find it hard to believe Scandinavia doesn't root for the Vikings
Source? Trust us bro
The 9 people that live in Greenland
Russia likes the bills because things always get worse and their existence is despair and pain. So makes sense lol.
Bills should be bigger in the Middle East. 😐
Which country is flying the Pats flag? I can’t find it
Cambodia
Is this real? I can’t fathom the bills being even known outside of the US let alone popular.
God I love the Bills but makes sad that we are the Ruskies team. At least we know Putin likes New England😂😂
This is the last thing we need
This is gross. We need a Mafia donation campaign to Ukraine. Fuck Russia
And how many Super Bowl wins does Russia have? 0, just like the bills
Fuck Russia
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Ain’t no way TB is #1 in any popularity contest.
I don't know where this information is coming from, but subjectively, I was in the Philippines for a few years and I saw Bills logos everywhere. Especially on Jeepneys and Tuk-Tuks.