By Jane Kwiatkowski Radlich
It doesn’t seem to matter how the games go, Buffalo Bills fans roar – or groan – with gulps of beer.
The website VinePair ranked Buffalo Bills fans as the most intoxicated in the National Football League, based on an analysis of smartphone-linked Breathalyzers.
The Bills scored a .076 percent BAC, just under the legal threshhold of .08 percent for drunken driving.
Fans of the Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles weighed in with .069. Trailing were fans of the Cleveland Browns, 0.064; Arizona Cardinals .062; and San Diego Chargers, .0618.
Data for the BACtrack Consumption Report was collected anonymously from users of the BACtrack app, which syncs with BACtrack Mobile and BACtrack Vio smartphone Breathalyzers.
BAC results were collected from 6 a.m. Sundays to 5:59 a.m. Mondays from Sept. 13 through Oct. 25.
The website reports that NFL fans’ average BAC levels do not correlate with a team’s record of wins and losses. Fans of the Tennessee Titans, a team with one win and six losses, would seem to have reason to drink excessively. Their BAC was 0.021 percent.
Fans of the undefeated Cincinnati Bengals recorded a 0.015 percent BAC, earning the distinction as the most sober of all football zealots. So they’re sober enough to enjoy the team’s victory formation during the last plays of the game.
Like players, the fans bring their game up a notch in the regular season, according to the website. Two-thirds of NFL team fans have a higher average BAC during the regular season compared to the preseason.
VinePair isn’t the first to annoint Bills fans as the drunkest in the NFL.
In his book “Ultimate Football Road Trip,” Sean MacDonald wrote about spending the 2013 football season on the road. He visited every stadium in the NFL, and he said the majority of Bills fans were “simply trying to get as drunk as possible.”