Boston may have just celebrated another Patriots' Super Bowl title, but they are apparently still bridesmaids to the real City of Champions. WalletHub.com recently conducted a study to find the best city for football fans. The website "compared more than 240 U.S. cities with at least one college or professional football team across 21 key metrics. Our data set ranges from number of NFL and college football teams to average ticket price for an NFL game to fan friendliness." Pittsburgh was ranked as the No. 1 city in American for pro football fans, with Boston coming in as the runner-up on WalletHub's list. Green Bay, Dallas and New Orleans rounded out the top five on the list.

Nicknamed "The City of Champions," Pittsburgh is regarded as one of, if not the, most passionate football city in American. The center of this passion is the Steelers, the team win the most Super Bowl victories (six) in NFL history. A baseball town for many decades, the pendulum turned in the early 1970s, when a rookie named Franco Harris helped the Steelers win their first playoff game in franchise history in 1972 with his "Immaculate Reception". Two years later, Franco and eight other future Hall of Fame players helped the Steelers win their first of four Super Bowls in a six-year span. Not only were the Steelers the first team to win three Super Bowls (in January of 1979), they became the first team to capture four Vince Lombardi Trophies after defeating the Los Angels Rams in Super Bowl XIV. The '70s Steelers are still regarded as the greatest team in the Super Bowl era.

Steelers fans pregame before the team's Week 17 matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals.

The success of that team captured the imagination of the entire city, as fans of a certain age can still reel off the starting lineup of those great 1970s team. The Steelers of the 1990s ushered in a new era of Steelers' fans, with future Hall of Famers Rod Woodson, Kevin Greene, Dermontti Dawson, and Jerome Bettis gave a younger generation of Pittsburgh fans their own players to cheer for. A decade later, the Steelers of the 2000s won the franchises two most recent Super Bowl trophies while continuing the franchise's legacy of excellence. And while they haven't added to their collection of Super Bowl trophies since 2008, Pittsburgh has continued to be one fo the most consistently successful teams in the NFL, with four division titles and zero losing seasons this decade.

Pittsburgh is also home to the Pitt Panthers, the 1976 national championships and one of the hotbeds for future NFL stars that includes Steelers' Pro Bowl running back James Conner, 2018 NFL Defensive Player of the Year candidate Aaron Donald and future Hall of Fame receiver, Larry Fitzgerald. Pittsburgh is also home to some of the most successful high schools teams in the country, as the Steel City, from top to bottom, is second to none when it comes to it's greatness as a football town.