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If you had the power to bring a new pro-sports franchise to your city, in a sport it doesn't already have... what sport would you pick?

Also, what city, and what would you pick for the mascot?
>> Anonymous
Minnesota already has every sport that matters.
>> Anonymous
Oklahoma City Bombers - Basketball
>> Anonymous
I'm in NJ...i have a team in the 4 major sports except baseball, and i dont really follow baseball anyway.
>> Anonymous
>Oklahoma City Bombers

I don't think that name would fly.
>> Anonymous
>>39243
terrible...
>> Anonymous
>>39251
New Jersey has the Devils and the Nets and that's it.

Everything else is just New York occupation. New Jersey is the France of America.
>> Anonymous
A hockey team in Cleveland.
>> PhilKenSebben !KHc9Lz/HZU
EUGENE, OREGON ARE YOU READY FOR AN MLB FRANCHISE!

Of course we will be building a dome and demolishing your precious downtown mall to do it.

The Eugene Rain-somethings
>> Anonymous
>>39252
>Oklahoma City Bombers
>I don't think that name would fly.
It's no worse than Chicago Fire.
>> Anonymous
Oklahoma City Nothings
>> Anonymous
>>39259
If you tried to knock down ONE tree in Eugene, the hippies would stone you to death.

Portland would get one first. Oregon's only real city.
>> Anonymous
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I know the thread is "in a sport it doesn't already have," but if I had a few billion dollars lying around, I'd put an AL franchise in Houston.

The three largest cities in the U.S. get two baseball teams (NY, LA, Chicago), so why not the 4th largest city? It's not like there isn't room... it takes like 2-3 hours to drive across the damn city.

Not sure of the name, though. Something to counteract/rival the Astros, like Zephyrs or... Blue Sox, or something.
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The Sacramento Solons NFL Team

We'll actually just take the worthless 49ers. I still wouldn't be a fan what with my lifelong loyalty to the Green Bay Packers
>> Anonymous
>>39271

Despite the shit they are now, the 49ers have alot of history there. I don't think they will move anytime soon. Its like seeing the Steelers or the Cowboys move.
>> Anonymous
Women's Basketball.
>> Anonymous
>>39275
What city & what mascot?

Cuz I'm wondering why, as batshit nuts as Mark Cuban is, he hasn't brought the WNBA into Dallas...
>> Anonymous
I'd want some kind of basketball team in Virginia, preferably Richmond
>> Anonymous
NEVADAFAG WANTS ANYTHING SHORT OF THE MLS AND THAT CURLING BULLSHIT.
>> Anonymous
Oklshoma (City) Bandits, seeing as we're stealing Seattle's team
>> Anonymous
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NFL to Memphis and the mascot would be "The Spades"
>> Anonymous
The Toronto Bills.

Oh it will happen sooner or later Buffalo. Trust me, it will...
>> Anonymous
>>39364
It's not stealing. You're just borrowing it until OKC money runs dry and Stern moves them to Las Vegas.
>> Anonymous
>>39377
Nevadafag again. Fuck yeah.
>> Anonymous
El Paso Patriots for MLS PLOX.
>> Anonymous
I've always been suprised that Las Vegas never got any sports franchises.
>> PhilKenSebben !KHc9Lz/HZU
>>39265
Fuck Portland, it's too fucking crowded.
>> Anonymous
The Vancouver Seahawks, Seattle sucks we'll take Billy Greene as our QB with Keynan Parker as running back, lol high school players.
>> Anonymous
Does Virginia have ANY major sports teams?
>> Anonymous
Another hockey franchise in Toronto. We don't want the NFL, because we like the CFL. And why would we want the bills anyways, it's just another shit team to go add to the repetoire of championship-less teams we have (other than the Rock, which kick lots of ass).
>> Anonymous
>>39466

DC is part of virginia i guess
>> Anonymous
>>39437
If anything they'll probably just integrate the CFL into the NFL or something, so they'd probably stick with the Lions.
>> Anonymous
Not my city, but fucking dismantle the SE Division of the NHL and move them up to northern/Canadian cities. I'm not picky as to which ones get picked just so long as the Jets come back.
>> Anonymous
>>39485
I think they would change the Lions name though since Detroit has it already, GO SALMON!
>> Anonymous
>>39495
lol, the CFL used to have two Roughriders, why not two Lions?
>> Anonymous
>>39487

Winnipeg Jets, Quebec City Nordiques, Hartford Whalers, Cleveland Barons

Also, Phoenix should move to Anchorage, Alaska
>> Anonymous
>>39498
Because it will be gay when the Lions play the Lions.
>> Anonymous
>>39507
Phoenix should move to Anchorage, Alaska

LOL, that'd never work. And Ohio already has a team, they don't need another in Cleveland. I'd suggest a new market like Seattle, Oregon, or maybe Wisconsin.
>> Anonymous
>>39509

they'd probably get a higher attendance than Phoenix.

change Cleveland Barons to the Milwaukee somethings and we have a deal.
>> Anonymous
Atlanta already has the 3 big US sports, and nobody cares for having a MLS club cause if anyone wanted to watch soccer they wouldn't want to watch Americans play.
>> Anonymous
>>39375
Oh fuck you. The Bills are the only thing keeping the entire populace of Buffalo, NY from committing a massive group suicide. Seriously, don't joke about that.
>> Anonymous
>>39507
>>39487
Fucking amen. There is no justifiable reason for any hockey team being located south from the 40 latitude line.
>> Anonymous
I already used this power to bring a MLS team to Philadelphia. ;D
>> Anonymous
>>39530
Congratulations on your MLS expansion team. I live in Chicago so I already have the Fire, but I want a MLS team in Milwaukee. We need a closer team than the Crew so we can have easier away game invasions. Also, maybe a team that doesn't suck as much as the Crew so we can have a proper midwest rivalry.

See you in 2010 yet to be named Philadelphia kickball team!
>> Anonymous
>>39709
I propose the new team shall be known as the Philadelphia Cheese Steaks.
>> Anonymous
>>39425
Jerry Bruckheimer is hellbent on getting an NHL franchise there. God knows why, there's a fuckton of things to do in LV, I can't imagine 'go see a hockey game' ranks high on that list.
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>> Anonymous
>>39524
Supposedly it will potentially maybe in the distant future eventually bring in profits to expand the NHL to 'new' markets. Which is total bunk, since despite two (three if you're willing to expand this to the PAcific division) Cup wins attendance isn't going up, more and more desperate 'fan giveaways' are being made, and virtually all of these teams have been steadily losing money ever since they were formed.
>> Anonymous
Oakland Oaks in the MLS.
>> Anonymous
>>39711
Smart money's on Philadelphia Athletic or Philadelphia Independence.
>> Anonymous
>>39713
Pro sports are pro sports, people will always show up. And with no major-league competition, an NHL team would do just fine there. New York teams have no problems getting people to their games, even for the shiity ones.
>> Anonymous
>>39721
>Pro sports are pro sports, people will always show up.
The Southeast division proves this untrue.

It's been shown time and time again that these southern teams are shit at gaining any kind of popular support, how is adding yet another one going to remedy anything?
>> UZ !kHzD4It5Tc
I think Denver has a team for every pro sport known to man. We have 2 major league lacrosse teams, for god's sake.
>> Anonymous
>>39727

It's actually worse than that. Teams in the south have been getting very good lately (last three cups: Anaheim, Carolina, and Tampa Bay), and people STILL don't show up. They can't even get bandwagon fans.
>> Anonymous
>>39425
Sports gambling fears.
>> Anonymous
I wish the Nationals went to Puerto Rico or the DR or somewhere instead of DC. Yawn DC.

Moving an international team to the US hurt the credibility of baseball, when it's prestige was already in a downward spiral. If they had moved from Montreal to the Carribean, you'd have seen it suddenly become an EXTREMELY popular team, and made a stronger argument for the international appeal of baseball.

Instead, they moved it to DC, where franchises go to die.
>> Anonymous
>>39713

well i think thats one of the major reasons why i think its a good place.

LV already attracts shitloads of tourists each year, they might as well go "hell we're already here, lets go see a hockey game".
>> Anonymous
>>39874
Good for a minor league team, terrible for a major league team.

Major league teams make money from rabid local fan bases who pay lots of money for shit like premium cable services to see it in HDTV. The money's in the TV, not attendance. Tourists who might see a hockey game for shits and giggles aren't gonna pay the bills.
>> Anonymous
>>39874
But that's my point, the last thing on those tourists' minds is to watch sports. If you're visiting Las Vegas you'd rather go see a hockey game instead of the shitloads of casinos and strip clubs that you WENT there for? Wut?
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>>39868
Redskins say "what's up?"
>> Anonymous
I WANT A SHIRLING LEAGUE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gu3mbl8SAk
>> Anonymous
Milwaukee could use an NBA team.