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OK, maybe my Cleveland Browns won't win the Super Bowl this year, particularly after our horrendous pre-season at the center position, but as I've been saying for years we do have the NFL's top-ranked fans. Now it's official:

The Cleveland Browns stumbled to a 6-10 record last year, their third straight losing season. Browns Stadium was sold out for every game.

The Kansas City Chiefs entered the season with high hopes, but missed the playoffs for the second year in a row. Arrowhead Stadium was sold out for every game.

The Philadelphia Eagles plummeted to a 6-10 mark, their worst since 1999. Lincoln Financial Field was sold out for every game.

Such steadfast support is the reason why Cleveland, Kansas City and Philadelphia are 1-2-3 in Bizjournals's new rankings of National Football League fan loyalty. (Click here for the top-to-bottom standings of all 32 teams.)

The study set out to identify the NFL's best fans. Not the ones who turn out in strong numbers for a winning team, but the ones who stay loyal even if their team is losing, the weather is frightful or their local market is small.

Cleveland fans earned first place by routinely packing their 73,000-seat stadium despite the dismal play of the Browns -- who have won only 36 of 112 games since 1999 -- and a climate that is among the coldest in the league.

Kansas City and Philadelphia received high marks for consistently drawing capacity crowds in both good seasons and bad. K.C. has averaged 77,300 fans per game since 1996, while Philly has filled 99.8 percent of available seats. Both figures rank second in the NFL over the 10-year span.

Rounding out the top 10 in the fan rankings are the Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills, Houston Texans, Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens and Washington Redskins.

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Right behind the Browns on the support list are Philadelphia, Kansas City, Denver and Green Bay. All attract capacity crowds game after game, year after year.

The runners-up to Cleveland in the difficulty standings are Buffalo, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Arizona. All are small to medium-sized markets whose teams have posted losing records during the past decade.

At the bottom of the overall fan loyalty rankings are the Oakland Raiders, whose average attendance is second-worst in the NFL since 1996, even though they play in one of the league's largest, most affluent markets. Unfortunately, the other members of the Holy Trinity of the NFL, the San Diego Chargers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, don't do as well in the rankings, which I find very odd in the Steelers case. This will be the subject of considerable sports talk in Pittsburgh, which in my opinion is the top sports market in the country based on ticket sales, merchandising and level of fan interest.

Full rankings are here.

After serving 10 days of a six-month sentence, the dumpster divers in Steamboat Springs, Colorado that we wrote about last week have been released. My thanks to an anonymous poster for pointing out a website called Colorado Freedom, which was set up last week to track this story. The activity of this site as well as the protests of many Steamboat Springs townspeople led to the release of the two young men charged with burglary for taking rotten fruit from a dumpster.

The Denver Post wrote in today's edition that David Siller and Giles Charlé were freed on Wednesday. Asst. District Attorney Kerry St. James, who during the prosecution said "I'm going to send a message to the community," cooked up a release deal after he became an international laughingstock. The story gained worldwide attention when it was featured last week on the Drudge Report, a website visited by 14 million people a day.

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