Eagles fans outnumbered New England Patriots supporters when Philadelphia won their first Super Bowl title in February of 2018. Could Eagles fans dwarf Kansas City Chiefs supporters Sunday as Philly tries to take down another dynasty?
Front Office Sports noted on their Instagram account that those using the ticketing app TickPick have been much more likely to be from Pennsylvania than Missouri:
There are some qualifiers that need to be mentioned here.
First of all, this is a sponsored post and while TickPick is no doubt selling legitimate tickets to Super Bowl LIX, the three official ticketing partners of the NFL are Ticketmaster, SeatGeek and Sports Illustrated Tickets.
Secondly, while the Chiefs play in Kansas City, Missouri, they are right on the border of the state of Kansas. So they are likely to have a sizable portion of their fans coming from Kansas as well. Also, when you go to the Super Bowl five times in six seasons, you build up a national following of fans across the country.
Then again, the Eagles have been one of the most successful franchises over the last 25 years, and this is their third trip to the Super Bowl in the last eight seasons. There are also plenty of Eagles fans in the states that border Pennsylvania who aren't counted in this graphic.
Still, if this graphic is any indication, it will likely be an Eagles-heavy crowd in New Orleans, and the Caesars Superdome is a stadium that typically provides one of the strongest home-field advantages in the sport. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs certainly aren't going to melt under that pressure, but you would still rather have the crowd on your side than not, particularly in a dome.
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