By Joseph Pompeo

It’s Sunday afternoon, people are ordering wings, getting their jerseys from the closet, and putting their phones on silent. It’s 1 o’clock and fans have settled down on their indented couches…. at least 81% of the La Roche community are.

One hundred students and faculty members at La Roche University took a survey on the National Football League (NFL). This survey took place after Week One of the NFL; here is what the survey found.

La Roche University is in Pittsburgh, where the Steelers play, down the road from Acrisure Stadium. Over half of the school are Steelers fans, 58 percent, and 4 percent are Browns fans, one of the biggest rivals of the Steelers.

Every Thursday, Sunday, and Monday the National Football League shows games on ESPN, NBC, and Fox, but how many hours does the La Roche community spend watching these games?

One game usually takes three hours, unless it goes into overtime. 53 percent of the La Roche community watches at least one game while 20 percent watches two games, six hours. However, 10 percent do not watch any NFL games.

When you turn on a game do you use streaming services, a TV provider, or listen to it from a radio? Well, 69 percent of the La Roche community watches games from a TV provider. Only 2 percent listen to games on the radio.

Usually during a game, you’ll have that one friend who is always checking their fantasy team. 30 percent of the school community does.

After Week One we witnessed the tyranny from the 49ers beating the Steelers 30-7. Luckily, Steelers fans still have high hopes with 13 percent of the La Roche community saying they’ll win 10 out of 17 games.

17 percent think they will win eight games and 10 percent think they will only get one win. The pie chart is pretty split between a winning season and a losing season.

Last year Patrick Mahomes won the Most Valuable Player Award (MVP). This year 42 percent of the La Roche community thinks he will win it again. T.J. Watt, linebacker for the Steelers, got 3 percent of the votes.

Two players got voted most for the Offensive Player of the Year (OPOY) and the Defensive Player of the year (DPOY). Tyreek Hill got 42 percent to win OPOY. T.J. Watt got 67 percent to win DPOY.

While one side of the rookies was pretty even, with Bryce Young getting 36 percent of the votes for Offensive Rookie of the Year (OROY); Jalen Carter got 54 percent of the votes wiping out all of the other Defensive Rookie of the Year (DROY).  

33 percent of the La Roche Community thinks that the 49ers will win the Super Bowl. Only 5 percent think that the Steelers would win. Even after Aaron Rodgers’ injury, 8 percent of the community thinks the Jets will win.