Chiefs Dethrone Cowboys As Most-Hated NFL Team, Data Shows

According to social media data, it is the Kansas City Chiefs who are the league's most-despised team, not the Dallas Cowboys.

The Dallas Cowboys have been the NFL's most-popular team for many years, but at the same time, they've also become arguably the league's most-hated team.

It's not too hard to see why many have grown to despise the Cowboys. Their fanbase is without a doubt the largest in the league, as they earned the nickname of "America's Team" for a reason, and those fans can be very loud at times. As such, they get the most media coverage as well, and overexposure leads to contempt.

However, there's a new challenger to the Cowboys' title of the most-hated NFL team. According to data from Bet Online, the Kansas City Chiefs have drawn the ire of the most NFL fans recently, not the Cowboys.

Bet Online looked at over 120,000 posts on X to determine which team received the most negative comments, and found that the Chiefs came out on top with well over 10,000 such comments. In comparison, the Cowboys received roughly 9,000 negative comments, putting them solidly in second place.

Keep in mind that this data is also from before the Super Bowl, so the gap is probably even larger now.

It wasn't that long ago when the Chiefs were seen as the new blood of the NFL after years of dominance by the New England Patriots, but as Harvey Dent said in The Dark Knight, "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." 

Kansas City has been in the past six AFC Championship Games and four of the past five Super Bowls, winning three of them. Combined with the constant attention on Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, the latter of whom has gained even more attention for dating Taylor Swift, and perceived unfair treatment by the officials, and it's easy to see why so many have turned on the Chiefs.

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Perhaps the Cowboys could reclaim the "coveted" title with a Super Bowl victory of their own, but for now, the Chiefs are the new evil empire of the NFL.