Buffalo Bills best-looking NFL team, study says

By any statistical measure, the Buffalo Bill are coming off an ugly 2010 season, going 4-12 and finishing last in the AFC East.

But by college researchers' calculations, the Bills are far from ugly - in fact they are the most attractive team in the NFL.

That's right. The Bills have been deemed the handsomest squad in the league, according to a study commissioned by the Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper asked researchers at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania to analyze the facial structure of 320 NFL starters - five players on offense and five on defense. Owners and head coaches were also put under the microscope since they were considered by the newspaper to be "two of the most-photographed personalities on any team."

WSJ: The NFL's Best-Looking Team

A computer program sized up the photographs in terms of facial symmetry, which is widely viewed by researchers as a barometer for attractiveness. After scanning the images, the Bills were rated the "hottest" team, while the Kansas City Chiefs were deemed the least attractive.

As the Journal notes, the Bills were awful last year and the Chiefs were a playoff team. So being tall, dark and handsome in real life may actually mean you are overmatched, underwhelming and ugly on the gridiron. As the newspaper notes: "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. 'People are drawn to more symmetrical objects.'"

Amazingly, quarterbacks did not rate as the most attractive in the study. That distinction actually went to kickers. So step aside Tom Brady, Mark Sanchez and Drew Brees. The ladies actually prefer Stephen Gostkowski, Nick Folk and Garrett Hartley.