Which NFL Teams With the Most Frequent Flyer Miles?

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I’m going to preface this whole thing as STUPID, but I’m posting it anyway.

Maybe a team’s performace is linked to how far it has to travel. The players get tired when they have to travel so far every year.

Since NFL realignment, I believe the following teams will travel the most miles on average.

I used MapQuest. I only calculated the distance from the city of one team to the cities of their division rivals. I assumed that all games outside each division over multiple seasons would average out in the long-run.

Here goes:

  1. St. Louis Rams
  • to Seattle: 2119 miles
  • to San Francisco: 2055 miles
  • to Arizona: 1503 miles
  • TOTAL: 5677 miles
  1. Dallas Cowboys
  • to New York: 1546 miles
  • to Philadelphia: 1468 miles
  • to Washington: 1328 miles
  • TOTAL: 4342 miles
  1. Miami Dolphins:
  • to New England: 1488 miles
  • to Buffalo: 1387 miles
  • to New York: 1275 miles
  • TOTAL: 4150 miles

The Giants, on the other hand, only have to travel 1868 miles.

Then, you have your total NFL slackers, the Green Bay Packers, who only have to travel 976 miles.

It’s no wonder the Cardinals are doing better because they no longer have to travel to the East Coast for division games. :wink:

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How you doing with so much time on your hands? :slight_smile:

Actually, I find this sort of stuff fascinating. Cool.

Jman

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I was going to mention the Cardinals prior to the realignment, but then I remembered that they never have any extra mileage in the postseason :wink:

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How did Indianapolis end up? Before I opened the thread I was guessing St. Louis, Miami, Dallas, then Indianapolis in 4th.

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Those are the only numbers I had time to add up.

Feel free to crunch your own numbers and contribute them to this thread.

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During the course of the full season, the Seahawks will easily fly the most miles. This has happened almost every years since they joined the league. The local sports reporters use this as the reason the Seahawks have not been able to attract some of the top free agents when they become available. The same holds true for the Mariners and Sonics too.

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Sorry, I thought you had calculated all of them. Okay, let’s see:

AFC South

INDIANAPOLIS 2285 total miles
to JACKSONVILLE 884 miles
to TENNESSEE 288 miles
to HOUSTON 1113 miles

JACKSONVILLE 2353 total miles
to INDIANAPOLIS 884 miles
to TENNESSEE 599 miles
to HOUSTON 870 miles

HOUSTON 2839 total miles
to TENNESSEE 856 miles
to INDIANAPOLIS 1113 miles
to JACKSONVILLE 870 miles

TENNESSEE 1743 total miles
to HOUSTON 856 miles
to JACKSONVILLE 599 miles
to INDIANAPOLIS 288 miles

Boy, was I off - only third in there own division, so at best 6th in the league (and probably lower).

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When a team has back-to-back road games, will the team always fly “home” after each game, or will it fly from one road game directly to the next?

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NFL teams always go home for the week, and generally fly into the away city on saturday–sometimes friday.

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It is not a good comparison to use map quest to add up miles… Those are ground miles. The teams fly. Map Quest doesn’t even use the best ground routes.
Randy

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Now let’s discuss the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors’ flying miles for conference games. Minimum ~3000 miles each.

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Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Cincinnati are all fairly close and that’s the worst division.

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Doesn’t Portland’s being kind of close help the Sonics travel schedule somewhat?

For the M’s and the Seahawks no one else is nearby- of course they have to travel a lot, which is why the “realign so the Mariners do not have to travel so much” argument never made any sense.

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The Sonics and Blazers only play each other 4 times a year. When the Grizzlies moved to Memphis from Vancouver, the Sonics travel distance increased a bunch. One 5 game road trip for the Sonics later this season has them going first to New Jersey, then to Boston, Miami, Detroit then Indiana. That is one of the reasons the Sonics have their own airplane.

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I have serviced that Bac 1-11 many times. Usually only cities that have an NBA and NHL team have their own aircraft, but not in this case however.