The Wall Street Journal conducted a study that ranked the grammar for all NFL teams based on posts on the official team's website. Here are the rankings:
Grammarly, an automated proofreading company, can use algorithms to check writing for more than 400 types of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors. Armed with this, the Count did the one thing that made the most sense: Make Grammarly rank each NFL fan base on its writing skills. To do so, they reviewed 150 reader comments that were at least 50 words long from the news section of each NFL team website (12,728 total words, on average, per team). The Redskins finished dead last with 16.5 mistakes per 100 words—roughly 30% worse than New Orleans Saints fans, the NFL's second most typo-prone fan base.
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Go Panthirs!
For anyone that listens to even a smidge or sports talk radio around DC, this is not surprising.
"smidge or sports talk"
I see what you did there
Hey now....I resemble that remark!!
I think some of our TKP inside jokes would flat-out break the Grammarly algorithms.
Someone needs to make an analysis tool for this site.
We could call it "Dorkerly".
I already wrote one, see?
My dork magic pussy touchdown was indeed not denied out by the kinky pool.
I have no issue with this sentence whatsoever.
Packers, the educated man's team.
Beat me to the GO PACK GO tagline.
Also, I'm actually surprised to see the Cowboys so far down the list. Then again maybe my idiot best friend of a Cowboys fans is skewing my insight...
I've been a fan my whole life, and it seems like around here there is a large population of rednecks who root for the Skins. Probably not so much in NOVA, but in Richmond a large portion of Redskins fans are middle-aged, handlebar mustache-wearing motorcycle drivers. Maybe I'm the only one who picked that up, but I wasn't surprised to see we have a rather error-prone fan base.
middle aged facial hared Motocycle drivers arre sumhow less edmucated than college sophomores?
Soury eye'm too dum to speel.
Can't see how that makes me a redneck either.
You need to catch hold of them stereotypes in your head before they leak out into public.
Stop by my brewery and I'll discuss some things with you over a beer. Proximity will help you see more clearly.
edit: BTW, it's "Motorcycle riders", not "drivers".
Umm... You are a delivery boy and you "ride" a skooter... Get your head on straight!
You may call it a scoot but not a skooter.
And be careful with that delivery boy thing, there are women on this board too you know.
I knew I was gonna get torched for this comment, just wasn't sure how bad. Leg for you, sir.
I'm guessing that the term "Redskins" is perhaps not a recognized term in the software? Might have something to do with it.
Have you been to Prince George's county? I'm not surprised.
I took several courses that covered polling with Dr. Brians at Tech (RIP) and MAN would he have had a field day with this embarrassing methodology.
This is Buzzfeed material at best.
Congrats, 1k Legs! I'll make it 1,001.
Thank you sir.
Two points:
1) fans drop HTTR all over the place like it's a real word, which probably doesn't help. Same goes for "who dat"/"geaux" anything
2) I would respectfully submit that Washington is worse at football than their fans are at spelling. They're really, really bad
LOL at the redskins! Though to be honest as an engineer I can barely speak proper English so I can't get too high and mighty on this subject...
it's obvious the Redskins need to bring more Hokies to the organization like Seattle is doing.
...but I want Hokies to be successful.
D-Hall is successful despite " bad spelling " redskins.
Pardon my tybos...
Billy Blanks?
This is interesting but how many people posting on fan sites are actually fans of that particular team? I bet a lot of posts on the Washington board have to do with their mascot name and there are probably a fair number of posters who are not actually fans of the team. I also think that the fan sites with the most traffic will tend to have the most errors, but that those errors may not necessarily be products of the fans for the respective teams. I think this 'study' is pretty general and you can't really draw any real conclusions from the results.
Disclaimer: I am not a fan of the Washington football team
The G-Men are in right in that meaty part of the curve - not showing off, not falling behind.
Well, at least we're #1 at something other than being OFFSEASON CHAMPS.
"Well, at least we're #1 at something other than being
OFFSEASON CHAMPS."PRE SEASON SUPER BOWL CHAMPS, FTFY. We've gone 4-0 every preseason for like the last 5 years. Sad really.
probably because Washington is the only team to play their starters for the whole game?
Still surprised to see their starters able to finally beat backups. Shows real progress.
How in the actual fuck did we beat out the fanbase that communicates entirely by the phrase "who dat?"
...just trying to keep winning off the field I suppose
This makes you wonder, how can he keep his hair looking like that, when his head is so often up his own ass? I really hope McCloughan fixes our front office in a big way.
Flawed as this methodology might be, there's a bigger difference between 1 and 2 than there is between 11 and 32. Impressive work, Redskins.
Cowboys, Eagles, Steelers are in the better half? Yeah right, and those brilliant Detroit Lions fans. No wonder Jets are up there, they spell at every game. J-E-T-S. Thats about the extent of their spelling prowess.
The reason Detroit had the fewest was the methodology:
Kinda hard to get to 50 words with an illiterate fan base.
I knew watching the Redskins would kill brain cells!