Now that Super Bowl Sunday has passed and Valentine’s Day is up next, what better way to tie the two occasions together than by highlighting a survey that asked NFL fans a rather odd question:
“Would you choose a Super Bowl win over finding true love?”
What percentage of Detroit Lions fans would choose a Super Bowl win over finding true love?
According to the survey, the Detroit Lions’ single fanbase led the NFL with a whopping 74% of respondents saying that they would rather win the Super Bowl than find true love!
For the record, the next highest average amongst the fanbases of every NFL team was the Los Angeles Chargers, of whom only 60% would rather hang the Super Bowl banner than find their soul mate.
Another interesting takeaway from the survey was that single Michiganders led the nation when the same data was broken down by state rather than fandom!
When asked if they would rather have their favorite NFL team win the Super Bowl or find true love, 78% of single Michiganders said that they would rather the Super Bowl win.
Funny findings from the study
According to the study, the average response of all the single NFL fans from across the United States that they questioned was that 48% of them would forgo true love to see their team hoist the Lombardi Trophy.
Interestingly though, the average response among women was 51% while the average among men was only 48% – which means that based on this study, women (on average) place a higher value on a Super Bowl win for their favorite team than men do!
How did they get this data?
According to the study’s methodology, Wetten.com conducted an independent survey of 2,000 single football across the country.
The survey involved a few basic questions including what team they were fans of, what state they currently resided in, and whether they would prefer to see their favorite team win the Super Bowl (this year or in a future season) or find their one true love.
The respondents to the survey that were included in the study had an average age of 38.4 years old and had a rough gender breakdown of 55% male, 44% female, 0.5% non-binary, and 0.5% ‘unspecified’.