Ranking the new NFL hashtags from first to worst

The @NFL and @Twitter release new emojis for all 32 teams. @TwitterSports #RiseUp #DawgPound #FinsUp #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/LCKgogtfwc
— Good Morning America (@GMA) September 7, 2016

As NFL fans know, Twitter released hashtags for each team Wednesday. The hashtags themselves automatically attach an emoji, the same way the Rio Olympics hashtags did. But instead of simply running with their team nicknames, many clubs went in another direction. Some of these were inspired by years of team history and tradition. Some … were not. Some of the emjois look great. Others, not so much. WTOP ranked all 32, using completely arbitrary tiebreakers only an institution like the NFL could be proud of. WTOP broke down rankings into five categories: originality, likability, likelihood of fan usage, troll proofness, and an emoji score. For the fan usage metric, we used a combination of how natural the hashtag is with the estimated peak usage 24 hours after the hashtag was released. This should have helped to filter out those using the bad ones ironically or to make fun of them from Wednesday. So here we go — all 32 teams, ranked from first to worst …