I think it's because our teams had the best win loss records most of the year, plus the Guiness noise thing probably annoyed them as it should have.

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What's twitter?

I think it's because Seahawks fans and their team are giant ****ing douche nozzles who everybody hates and other fans are insanely jealous of the class exuded by the Chiefs team and its fans.

I know a ton of people that hate Pete Carroll but I would think NE or Dallas could pull akC any day In a hatred poll.

Well there's not much you can hate about the Raiders... They're all in jail.

The data was from the last 4.5 years, so I'm not sure how much the past few months would swing it.

Makes no sense. How can you hate on losers?

Was this a study of just NFL refs or did it include all sports?

Embrace it.

**** the haters.

I blame it on Pete Prisco

ROFL

Yeah, has to be. On every poll-based analysis of this I've ever seen, the Chiefs don't even register on the radar of hated teams.

Kind of an interesting indicator of how sentiment analysis can draw false conclusions, honestly.

Yeah, this makes no sense to me. Shitty teams aren't hated. Especially smaller-market teams in the Midwest. This is supposed to be based on data from the past 4 1/2 years, so anything that happened this season is less than 25% of the time frame.

And so the teams with a negative number--that means there is more positive sentiment about them outside of their market than in it? Who knows how the **** they measured this--it don't make sense to me. The methodology is probably explained somewhere, but I don't care enough to look into it.

Actually, now that I'm reading it more closely, it's a measurement of the DIFFERENCE between in-market and out-of-market sentiment, not overall +/-. In other words, there are two possible impacts of each bar:

1. The team is particularly disliked outside its home market.
2. The team is particularly liked inside its home market.

In other words, the Chiefs and Seahawks may be at the top of the list just because their home markets have been REALLY positive about them.

Either way, it's a tough analysis to draw anything meaningful from.