The Wall Street Journal, which asked the school to conduct the study, reports that researchers looked at 320 football players — five from each team's offense and defense along with two of each club's most-photographed players — and looked at their facial symmetry, which is frequently used as a metric for attractiveness.
The Bills had a symmetry rating of 99.47. On the other hand, the Chiefs were found to be the least attractive team.
Researchers found that the Buffalo Bills, one of the league's suckiest teams, were the NFL's most handsome club. The paper reports: "To be clear, we're not saying there's any proven connection between winning football teams and good looks. If anything, it may be an inverse relationship: Teams with particularly attractive players might be guilty of favoring people who are more presentable than talented. Jennifer VanGilder, a professor of business economics at Ursinus who oversaw the research, said the lure of hiring pretty faces is unconscious."
Surprisingly, the paper says, the most attractive members of teams aren't the quarterbacks. So, which position had the prettiest guys? Kickers! Yes, the loser of the football team. The ugliest players are wide receivers.
Regardless of whether Matt Cassel is a hunk, we can all agree that this is probably not the boost these guys need after a disastrous preseason.
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Who ever said that being pretty made you a football player was wrong. When you are a true football player and you care about the game then your being pretty or how you look doesnt matter. How you preform and winning is the only thing that should matter, not oh my gosh i broke a nail or did i need to cut my hair for this game or man those tights make you look fat not phat, lol. Wow how the game has changed and whoever did this research was probably a female. This by a true player of the game.
hey...if we can't win by beating them, tackling and sacking them...hitting them high, taking their legs out from under them...couple of chop blocks, and late hits..facemask or two..
then by God, our Chiefs will just out UGLY them...
a win is a win is a win...I'll take it..!
This is the most asinine study I've ever heard concerning football . This has nothing to do with our most beloved and popular American sport . Don't waste our time you shit heads on this meaningless study you rocket scientist ! Duh !
Win or lose, I will always be a CHIEFS Fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets Go Chiefs!!!!
what a patently ignorant, useless "study". Of course, since it comes from Rupert Murdoch's rag, it just makes sense.
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Do people get paid to do this kind of writing? There are architects, engineers, plumbers, electricians, brick masons, etc. who can't get work and these rummies brobably get $100,000.00 a year at some college to do this crap.
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