Which major U.S. cities don't have a professional team in any major league sport, but need one?

des moines needs a hockey team and boise needs a football team. fuck jacksonville, move em to boise

BRING FOOTBALL TO TULSA

Cleveland

What about the Admirals?

too soon dude. Fucking anaheim

>all of these layover cities ITT

Liberals don't watch sports

Charleston

But the shithawks usually have a big turnout

t. Bridge & Tunnel chump

the issue is that it needs to be actually major and not already have a team nearby (So no Austin, anything in the south, or Albuquerque because thats not major)
If its not completely major then it growing super fast can be acceptable. Right now that leaves St. Louis, Las Vegas (Raiders have this) and potentially San Diego if the Chargers leave for expansion in football. You can also have a franchise in Toronto/Mexico City if you want to go outside.

For baseball Las Vegas could probably host the A's rather than Oakland which is a shitty area for them, somewhere in North Carolina, and Montreal (assuming they don't get dicked with TV deals like last time). I predict that the A's will go to Las Vegas with the Raiders and the Tampa Rays will become the new Expos

North Carolina already has teams though

But the nationals are the expos

Why are all the big markets liberal cities then?

Cmon guys, applaud the hue with some (You)s. This was funny

Pittsburgh needs an NBA team

Vegas

Vegas is getting a hockey team and possibly an NFL team

Other than Las Vegas and Albuquerque.... can't really think of any.

Though being a Masshole, I'd argue that Worcester could field a team to give Western and Central Mass a team to gather round... as a counter to Boston's centrality in New England sports. Central MA alone gives you 2.6M+ fans.

>Austin

I couldn't even tell you a thing about there other than it's supposedly the one place in Texas where liberal gays live

I couldn't tell you a thing about San Antonio other than the Spurs either

Tacoma is in the Seattle metro.

oklahoma might as well be. we only just recently got the thunder and we have to put up with watching texas or misery

Literally Louisville.

L I T E R A L L Y Louisville.

I mean, they're the one locality that really fucking deserves one.

There really are no cities that are relevant and not part of another team's "area". But certain cities really deserve teams in another sport. How on earth does San Antonio not have a football team or a baseball team?

Relocate Jaguars to Mexico City when???

The Alamo is in San Antonio.

That's pretty much it.

TACOMPTON love on Cred Forums

The only thing is that some large cities have so much goddamn regional clout and presence that other deserving cities are essentially overlooked. Shit, look at New York state, other than the Bills, it's all NYC.

Granted.... Boston and Philly are very close by yet they are not considered part of NYC's "sports region" but still...............

no thanks
lots of people here dont even like sports

Relocate them to San Antonio or El Paso, it's basically Mexico with fewer murders.

...

conservatives don't understand the world outside of their echo chamber. don't ask.

>Shit, look at New York state, other than the Bills, it's all NYC.

That's because the NYC area makes up like 80% of the state's population.

...

Boulder, Colorado
Honolulu, Hawaii
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Lincoln , Nebraska

I don't think any of those are major US cities, though.

m8, the New York City Metropolitan statistical area basically has like 75% of all of NY state's population though, so i think NYC's situation makes sense, especially seeing that they have 2 of each team in every league, even MLS.

There are more murders commited in the border area than in Mexico City because of the Cartels up north.

Maybe Monterrey would be a nice choice, biggest city in northern Mexico.

>those flyover who cities
>major

Diego bls.

Everywhere in Texas that isn't Houston is Cowboys country. Austin doesn't need a football team.

It might be good for them to have a basketball team, though. Move the Thunder there, rename them the Twisters.

Top 100

Not a US city, but I would like to see Vancouver BC get an NBA team again. I think they have a better market for it now.

kek, i didn't even need to post cos you beat me to it. Alot of people don't realize how empty and redneck dominated NY state is outside of NYC.

Fair enough. Boulder is definitely a no, though with Denver like 30min away.

>Austin
What would they play?
How to be a hipster and catching aids?
Austin is just fags hipsters and politicians, no one in the rest of the state would miss it were ISIS to blow it up.

Oh yeah, didn't think of nyc's population

Dude, you sound really deluded about the world around you. What are you angry about?

I paid your mom for 2 hours and only got 45 minutes before she ran off naked into the night with my money. Of course im fucking angry.

What about a football team between Austin and San Antiono?

Am I wrong?

Maybe get off the internet for a while and take a walk. I'll have a talk with my mom, but in her defense, you can really only spend so much time on a tiny dick.

>American """"""banter""""""""

About Austin? Yes, you are empirically wrong about both of your statements.

Virginia is the most populated state with no major team. so them

The largest Metropolitan area in the US without a major sports team is El Paso, Texas and has been for a very long time

that would never happen, the amount of natural land that the city refuses to grow is the same reason the high ways are fucking 2 lanes.

Austin does not need a major sports team.
>spurs down south
>cowboys, mavs, rangers, stars up north
>rockets, astros, texans east

UT is enough and enough sports bars to cover the other half, it's nicer having a mix of fans to shit talk then to have 1 specific team a city falls behind.

i meant to say the amount of land the city refuses to cut, besides its the only city in the united states for formula 1 they'll just bank off that.

Austin has F1

Orlando has the largest metro area without a major sports team I believe. Quebec City is the largest canadian metro without a major league sports team

>Magic
>Orlando City
>without a major sports team

Almost the opposite acutally. While El Paso is the 2nd largest city without a major sports team (discounting fort worth) their metro area is 61st in the country, behind metro areas like Hartford, Providence, and Fresno. Largest metro area without a major league sports team is Austin

>Grand Rapids
Everyone not from upper peninsula root for Detroit's team

Unless you're a fucking cuck who had the misfortune of having a Chicago mother or Wisconsin father

Vegas is the only "major" city I can think of without a major team but they're getting a hockey team so..

>mlels
>major leagues

Pick one

Colorado Springs would be under consideration before Boulder would.

>Des Moines needs a hockey team
This

Watching the Rough Riders can be painful and I'd rather die than bandwagon Waterloo.

Nah you have to root for either Cleveland or Philadelphia. :^)

Tidewater Virginia wins. They have no nearby teams, closest ones are in DC. On top of that they don't even have major college teams to go see. At least places like Louisville, Omaha and Austin have power conference sports teams.

Not big enough
Too close to Indianapolis and Cincinnati
College sports hog too much attention there

Honolulu

I'd welcome that as I always can't fucking sleep and would love watching games in the middle of the night

What, no love for the /tribe/

Is Alaska even relevant?

Should just give it to us or the Russians desu

Brazil

I said for baseball

B A N T Z

You are retarded, the NYC Metro has like 60% of NY's population. The entire MSA isn't in NY

Louisville could work for NBA, but it's too close to Indy and cincy for football or baseball.

Otherwise Las Vegas, but they're getting an NHL team anyway.

i watch, and play, sports

t. liberal

Jerking off to cuckold porn isn't a sport

The Thunder is the best name in sports though. Twisters sounds like some arena football team from Kansas

No other cities "need" a sport. Many of the cities right now can't keep a team other than football. Look at how many empty seats are in regular season games for the other three sports.

do they even like basketball in Kentucky?

Dallas dominates NFL market cap in Arkansas, I doubt a team in Little Rock could be very successful.

are you serious?

>do they even like basketball in Kentucky?

This is maybe the dumbest question ever asked on Cred Forums.

Kentucky, Indiana, Kansas, and North Carolina all fucking love basketball. Those are the only four states where college basketball reigns as the #1 most watched sport, and there's no reason to think it wouldn't carry over to the NBA

we need new cities instead

im going to start my own city in montana it will become huge and we'll get all the teams

>tfw the northwest front will never come to fruition

Nevermind the US.
What about Quebec City?

>tfw betman stacks his joke of a world tournament against Canada. Making us split our players, compete with whole contimets etc.
>tfw betman brings an expansion nobody asked for to an American city that doesn't give a fuck about hockey, on a league that is crippled by having too many teams. Instead of just letting it be or at least bringing back a Canadian team.
Fucking why does he hate us bros?

nobody will want to play in Quebec and the market isn't big enough to compensate for that

God damn, this is good bait. I know what it is and I'm still replying to it.

I imagine most people would rather play for Canadian fans, than a bunch of tourists chearing on the away team.
Besides QC is a pretty big market, it's a lwrge city by Canadian standards, and if you consider what Canadian teams can sell tickets for v.s. Shit like florida or even LA/Anaheim.

St. Louis

This.
They got robbed.
I understand it from a business perspective.
But as a sports fan, L.A. Does not fucking deserve the Rams

ITT: retards

A city's population is irrelevant. The size of the TV media market is the only relevant figure.

The largest TV market without a major team is Hartford. Assuming it's impossible to break into that market because NY and Boston, its West NC. Austin and Vegas follow after these.

I don't know anything much about Austin, but Vegas seems a good play to me because it will just keep growing.

>my hockey economics are 20 years old
Canadian teams have higher taxes and exchange rate risk to deal with too. But mostly that doesn't matter because of the cap. You could have 5 more teams and decent management could pull it off, but the product is shit compared to when there were 22-25 teams and retards like you think it has to do with tactics or goalie pads instead of the talent pool drying up.

>need
no city "needs" a pro sports team.It might be good for tourism but unless they're really successful they'll usually be a burden to the city.

Trump?

>Absolute cancer post
Come on, that banter was pretty top.

Every state capital should have a professional team. So that would include Pierre, Billings, Madison, Anchorage. I refuse to believe that any of those are smaller than fucking Charlotte.

fucking Norfolk sucks. No sports at all.

Keep telling these idiots they need to defect from the Shitskins to the Panthers

uh, because, because....

REEEEE SHILL thank you for correcting the record reeeeeeeeeeeeee

>implying texass needs any more teams of any sport

Boulder = Denver

>Boulder, Colorado

probably not going to happen, but damn that would be awesome

Boise

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>BTFO
>didn't quote a comment

put down the firewater before you comment next time Nanook