Football’s back! Here at Yahoo Sports, we’re dissecting every element of every team, from QBs to coaching staffs to front offices. Every element, that is, except for one: the fans.

Look, it’s easy to be a fan of the Patriots. If you’re pulling for the Steelers or Cowboys, you’ve got plenty of company. Fans of the Eagles, Ravens, Broncos and Saints get rewarded with regular playoff visits and, every so often, a big win. Chiefs fans today find themselves with premium seats on the slickest new bandwagon in the NFL.

So they’re all doing fine. But what about the fans of less-than-successful teams? What about fans who’ve had to eat, uh, junk from their teams, season after season? Which have had decades of loyal fandom rewarded with tanking, missed drafts, blundering coaching decisions, and generational incompetence? The higher the expectations, the richer the history, the more painful it is when a team trips over its own facemask.

So, for the third season in a row (here’s 2017, here’s 2018), let’s run down our Most Tortured Fan Base contenders. If you know a fan of one of these teams, show ‘em some love. They’re going through a rough patch.

Have you ever fallen in love with someone, helped them through tough times, encouraged them as they pulled themselves together … and then watched in horror as they ditched you and ran off with someone else? My friend, I sure hope you haven’t, but if you have, there’s a lucrative therapy business waiting for you in Oakland in 2020. If there are any Raiders fans left in Oakland, there won’t be there much longer. You know the story here: The Raiders are pulling up stakes after this year and heading to Vegas. This, after they’ve gone all-in on Jon Gruden as the face and master of their franchise. The Gruden Gambit might work, it might not, but here’s how it’ll shake out — Oakland’s getting the shaft while Vegas gets whatever might blossom. Is that fair to Oakland’s fans? Hell no.

Last year’s Most Tortured rank: 8

Yahoo Sports 2019 preview rank: 30

Green Bay’s fans are among the greatest in the NFL, loyal through some of the most bitter cold and non-premium stadium conditions in the league. They’ve also had two of the greatest quarterbacks in history on their roster over the last quarter-century, and they’ve won exactly two Super Bowl championships. Now they’re starting over fresh, yet again, with Aaron Rodgers running the show … sorry, capitulating to a new head coach. Granted, Green Bay is the only team on this list that could realistically vault itself to a Super Bowl win this year, but if that doesn’t happen, well, there aren’t too many Wait ’til next year!s left in Rodgers’ career. When they’ve got some CFL-level QB bumbling to five-win seasons a few years from now, spare a kind thought for the Lambeau faithful. Plus, if they ever visited another stadium and see what the NFL fan experience is like in 2019 outside of Wisconsin, hoo boy, would they be ticked.

Last year’s Most Tortured rank: 10

Yahoo Sports 2019 preview rank: 9

Man, has a window ever opened so wide and slammed shut so hard as it has for the Vikings? Just 18 months ago, Stefon Diggs was eluding the Saints and bringing salvation to an entire chunk of the country. Now, after a just-barely-over-.500 season and an uncertain future with Kirk Cousins under center, the Vikings are sliding into that also-ran status. Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? Vikings fans can tell you right about now. Between the still-pretty-new stadium, the SKOL chant, and the afterglow from that Saints Miracle, Vikings fans are still in denial about the real trouble they’re in, like a guy happily ice fishing in July.

Last year’s Most Tortured rank: 1

Yahoo Sports 2019 preview rank: 16