San Antonio Raiders? Are you excited.

The July 30th Breaking News:

24 out of the 30 on the vote by owners would be required for approval.
That would make for 2 Cali and 3 Texas teams.  The lonely Niners and Chargers.  Sans Los Angeles.


http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000371203/article/raiders-mark-davis-met-with-san-antonio-city-officials

So, really maybe not?:
http://deadspin.com/report-raiders-sniff-around-san-antonio-as-possible-re-1612982307


San Antonio News Link

bizjournals.com

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Some Teams Best Shared in the Big 3,..and Five ...that I can think of anyhow... .

I believe poised to expand (geographically) as a franchise.

NFL:
Jets      Damn near anywhere:  L.A., London, Portland
Bears   Omaha of the Midway
Rams    anywhere out west really
Raiders  Anywhere west coast, even Las Vegas
Saints     New Orleans and Louisville share a river highway.
Jaguars  I wouldn't care if they packed up altogether.  There's that eastern metropolis called Toronto.

NBA:
Grizzlies   w/ St. Louis?
Jazz
Pelicans   w/ a namechange and a move to Louisville, also.  Or Nashville?  Wouldn't the New Orleans and Nashville Jazz be nifty?

In terms of popularity, I believe most desired would be the Celtics and Lakers. Some would kill for this.  I would salivate of the thought of the Cincinnati Celtics.  I wish the Jazz moniker would go to New Orleans and maybe have the Salt Lake City Lakers, freeing up a franchise to go back to Seattle or some such.  Wouldn't the Clippers be a good share for Seattle?  I also made a post of some international sister cities for these franchises (but have yet to make a full list).

MLB:
Indians   w/ Indianapolis?  The Engines?
Pirates     Columbus?  I would love the rivalry and hate with the Indians and Reds.
Angels      with the city of Sacramento's northern California abode
Athletics   with Portland
The Rays of anywhere else.
Astros of Austin.  And Rangers.  If San Marcos would build a 35k seat gem for central Texas, including San Antonio, have both teams park here periodically.  Drive a thirst for market.

 
NHL:
No offense to Arizona, but you're in Arizona.  I'd like some Westside Coyote action for Portland and Seattle as well.  While we're at it, an appearance or two in Las Vegas would be a helluva "home" camp stint.  A Great Lakes Milwaukee franchise should be in existence before Miami.  Let's just go with the Florida Lightning.  Nashville, share the south with ATL.  I'd have to shout some love to the land up north and let them have their Toronto2 and Quebec City or whatever expansion.  I would love for the C-Bus B-Jacks to roll into Cincinnati like a quarter of the time for camp, even sharing with Cleveland if I had to.
I feel that MLS has a way to go across the map already.  And yes, I'd love the same C-bus situation for Cincinnati again for the Crew.

Obviously, these are my prejudiced views.  But as prejudiced as I am, I've never mentioned moving or sharing the Cardinals of St. Louis.  Or the Squeelers.  Nor do I dictate to rename the Browns the Land o' Lakes ButterBrownies.  I love to hate.

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Baltimore: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

For oh-so-lonesome of a long time there was only the Baltimore Orioles to preach about, alongside some Redskin lovin' and bitter Colt thoughts.

There's no NBA or NHL franchise in Baltimore.  It's like Cincinnati in that regard.  They're Big Two cities.
Perhaps Baltimore's biggest reason for the lack of an NBA team is it's proximity to the nation's capital, literally it's next door neighbor.  Ditto for the emissary of Canadian ice.  The Colts were gone for years before finally an NFL team came back to grace the weekly venue of the Bay.  The Redskins kept them at bay for so long.

The NBA or MLS isn't there either, like it isn't for Cinci, St. Louis and Pittsburgh.  But, like I've been preaching throughout my blog, the next expansion could be a two-town team, and in this economic climate maybe that's the feasible option for a relocation, co-location or expansion.  For instance, let's say that for the Athletics to stay in Oakland, they share the team with Portland and become the West Coast A's.  Just a thought for your Beltway Bullets or Wizards.  Or your Eastern Battalion b-ball team with Pittsburgh.  Or something.  Get creative.  Come up with some thoughts.  Of course a lot of reality can negate my dream schemes.  But I think it's all a good contingency plan.  Let's say that the Cavaliers had very dismal attendance in Cleveland in today's climate.  They could spread the gate to Cincinnati and Columbus and survive as an Ohio named franchise.


This article about the Baltimore climate feels like a ditto for Cincinnati to me:
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-10-16/sports/bs-sp-baltimore-nba-1017-20131016_1_new-arena-nba-development-league-baltimore-arena

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American City Jets. American Coast Jets. East Coast Jets. Shuffling Shake Up for the NFL and Maybe NFL London

New York is way more than a two horse town.  So is Los Angeles.

I wouldn't mind seeing the Los Angeles Jets.
Share both coasts and there's a new America's Team in town.
I wouldn't mind the Atlantic Ocean Jets playing in NYC and London.
I wouldn't mind seeing the East Coast Jets playing in the Meadowlands and in Jacksonville, freeing up the Jaguires place mark to be moved elsewhere,....like Canada or Portland.

For sanity's sake, I'd choose the American Coast Jets doing the whole Jersey, L.A. and or Portland thing.

What kind of portability is in the name Jets?  Especially with another Giant in town.  That pesky Giant name likes to be in real close proximity to other franchises in a bay area.

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NFL in More Territory. No Expansion Necessary. My typical blender of ideas like the Midway Bears

What's your vote?
Where do they play?  Home games.  Where their camp games are housed in the season?  Take a look.

Midway Bears
 Chicago and Omaha
 Interesting places for some pre-season action?:  Iowa City, Witchita

Western Rams.... or the Westward Rams
  St. Louis and OKC
  Interesting places for some pre-season?:  Idaho, Montana.  interesting to think about Austin/San Antonio


Just another thought but I wouldn't mind the Washington Warriors playing some home camp games outside of the D.C. area, like in Morgantown.

West Coast Raiders
  Los Angeles, Portland and Las Vegas
  Interesting places for some pre-season?:  Albuquerque, SLC.  Maybe El Paso

Norde Force ((old Jacksonville team))
  Camp throughout CFL Canada

Southern Belles or Southern Saints
  New Orleans, central Alabama (Maybe Mobile instead?), Louisville and Jacksonville. 

Norde Force so as not to stir nationalism,...blatantly anyway.  A referenced wink and a nod to the Mounties.  I believe the CFL would survive as the national team hops coast to coast in Canada 8 weeks out of the year.

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NFL for Portland, Las Vegas, SLC, Boise and Albuquerque. Then San Antonio and Austin. Just a Thought

Los Angeles should maybe just have the Raiders back.  Or the California Raiders could be housed in two camps, one SoCal, one in NorCal.  Perhaps existing Oakland and some new digs in L.A.

The Western Rams could play in the towns mentioned in the title, namely Portland and Las Vegas.  The Texas Cowboys are probably happy being called Dallas.  After all, it has a ring to it that has been echoed in our head.  And everywhere with maybe the exception of Buffalo, nobody cares for old school teams to be renamed the New York State Yankees.  But the Texas Cowboys playing for San Antonio and Austin outside the congregation's confines of Jerry Jones Cathedral would be nice.  I've blogmentioned before, something in between on I-35 like San Marcos for the Central Texas population hub.  Perhaps the Rams could dabble in El Paso or a Cowboys home game (AT LEAST SOME PRESEASON) could take place there.

So, some camp games or "home" games for the Rams could still be played in St. Louis.
I also thought that the West Coast Raiders in Porltand, Oakland, Vegas and L.A. wasn't a bad idea.
But anyway, one game a year in Utah, Idaho and New Mexico could leave some lackluster behind in the Gateway to the West city and bring NFL loyalty to more cities.

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NFL for Oklahoma City, Witchita, Omaha, Little Rock and Des Moines

A team named the Heartland Stampede.  A travel home camp team for the heart of the country

First season:  two games in either Tulsa, Norman, or Stillwater Oklahoma.  Two in Iowa City.  Maybe one or two in Little Rock, Lawrence, Kansas and Omaha.

Utilize some of the big college football stadiums.  Maybe anchor the franchises more with two towns having 3 home games a piece and single special games in another town.  I could see Des Moines and Oklahoma City building stadiums to win this nod from the NFL.  These cities could get 3 home games.  In another year, a camp game in the Heartland region could take place in Little Rock and Witchita one year and then Omaha and then a special carnival setup game in the western Dakota oilfields the next.  Better than nothing.  And places can show the NFL that they're ready when it's time.

Bakken Field Flares from Space. Burning Natural Gas as a Waste in North Dakota.

Since expansion isn't really hip or business savvy at this time, maybe St. Louis should be thrown in said mix and we talk about the Gateway Rams or Heartland Rams or just stick with the Stampede theme and have an interesting rivalry with Kansas City in the middle of enemy camps.


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Midland Marauders?  Click post below:
Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL

Kansas City: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

Out of the Big Five Sports , Kansas City has 3.

They tout the Big 2, that being what I, along with many others I'm sure, feel as the most important.  Those leagues of course being big league baseball and football.  God Bless your Royals and Chiefs.  I love my Reds and Bengals.  We have some sports lineage together.

KC has an MLS team.  Like my hometown, they used to have the NBA.  Our team used to be the Cincinnati Royals, which moved on to become the Kansas City Kings, and alas Sacramento.  And the namesake of Royals stuck with baseball in KC.

A big time hockey franchise has many cities in line before KC, close to the likes of Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee, Cleveland...and well, more north places in general.  The NHL was there.  They were the Kansas City Scouts.  And then the Colorado Rockies.  And finally, since 1982, those New Jersey Devils they are.  The minor league Missouri Mavericks will have to do for now.

KC Scouts 1974-1976 before moving to Colorado Rockies Hockey

Check out this KC fantasy threading:  http://www.operationsports.com/forums/basketball-dynasties/472592-building-new-empire-kansas-city-kings.html

Previous Post:  Kansas City-Omaha Kings
Or for more, search "Kansas City" on my blog. 

Low resolution image of what was the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, many times playing in St. Louis.

click: Wikipedia link for Sporting KC.

The reality of any town getting a major league team right now is that the markets suck and of course business is picky.  Any best bet would be the move of existing troubled teams that are either having money or leasing troubles (ie.  Oakland, in the case of the Athletics and Raiders; Tampa Rays attendance).  Kansas City wanting the Kings back would be another thought.  Seattle buzz about housing the Clippers is another tabloid.  There are many statistics about market saturation and which cities could withstand which leagues.  It's talked about and referenced throughout my blog posts, particularly the posts in the early months of 2014.

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WMLB, WNBA, WNHL, WMLS, ... and wha whuuut, WNFL?!

At least getting its start as an exhibition before or after a MLS game, ...it's foreseable.

Ditto for the NHL and ladyfolk.  I'm sexist so I'd say a bikini for anything.

WNBA.  Done did.  How successful?  As of 2013, yes I guess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association

Athlete Lauren Jackson

WNFL?  My first reaction is "Nooo".   Womens National Football League.  I can't articulate as to why.  But can't we all just get along.

WMLB, me definitely likes.
Go Redlegs!

WMLB and my Lady Redlegs v. the San Diego Madres

National Women's Soccer League. What about a Major League Soccer Collaborative?

WNBA. So why not the WMLS?

MLS most feasible chance at travel team/home-camp shared team model. A Few Examples.

WNFL. You thought correct, the Women's National Football League

UFL and Arena Football filling a void? And the LFL Expanding to Broader Markets Faster. World Markets.

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NFL in London, Overseas and Overlakes chatter.

LINK: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/london-calling--robert-kraft-thinks-nfl-could-land-there-by-end-of-decade-143209132.html


And I have to suppose Montreal people keep asking the Baseball Commish about playing ball there again because it constantly comes up in the news google updates.



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Sad, abandoned French Canada: http://thegoodpoint.com/montreal-expos-mlb/

 .www.mtlblog.com

The old Washington Nationals

Minor to Major. Team Proximity and Namesake. Laid Claims. Region Ball. Outlands and the Farms.

Affiliates by NAMESAKE:
Red Sox, Mets, Phillies, Cubs, Braves, Cardinals, Tigers, Giants, Rockies and Brewers is what I got.
So, that's 13 minor teams for 10 major clubs.

Pawtucket Red Sox in Rhode Island
And the Reds Sox in Salem, Virginia
Iowa Cubs
Gwinnett Braves
And Rome, Braves.  And Mississippi Braves.
Binghamton Mets
Reading Fightin Phils
Springfield Cardinals in Missouri.
Connecticut Tigers
San Jose Giants
Grand Junction Rockies
Helena Brewers

The Spokane Indians (Texas Rangers) and Indianapolis Indians (Pittsburgh Pirates) are different with the name attachment altogether.

The Boston franchise of the Sox have wrapped their claims cornering New England.  What a good move.  A claim laid since 2009.  The Cubs and Red Sox have a minor team with namesake straddling their home state.  Is Detroit baseball trying to stretch claim to the coast?  Milwaukee out to spread out territory in Montana and Tennessee?  Were the Reds and White Sox trying the same in the past with their business moves?  Did the Reds try to do that in the past with the Vermont Reds living in BoSox territory?  Atlanta lays strong claim, and in close proximity to the Big Show, with their minor teams keeping the name of Braves in the form of straddling two adjacent statistical metropolitan areas of Atlanta. 

2 MLB teams have 2 minor league teams to share their name (when not considering other foreign or development leagues (ie. Arizona and Venezuela).
Many teams, like the Reds in the case with Louisville, have a team straddling their state also.  The Ohio River is shared.



What do you think of this graphic out by Google (July 2014)?

Sports teams like the Saints lay claim to Mississippi and the Braves (and maybe even a bigger dose of the Falcons?) sharing more of the A logo with 'Bama.
The Bills have a good claim of the inner-state outskirts of New York, one could see.
Other questions to explore when peaking at above map:  I've seen maps of Bronco claim to Montana, although probably not scientific.  Is Montana looking for a winner?  Seattle won the Superbowl.
Does Nevada feel like a cowpoke of Texas?  Instead of the sister city I drummed up, should it in part be the Las Vegas Cowboys as a sister city?: (Click) NFL Sister Cities post

NYC emmigrants in Florida seem strong on their retirement get-away plans.  Chicago, Detroit and Toronto's south refuse of play.
Take a look at minor baseball in the Florida cities of the FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE:

St. Lucie Mets
Tampa Yankees
Lakeland Flying Tigers
Daytona Cubs
Palm Beach Cardinals
Dunedin Blue Jays

Development teams in the ARIZONA LEAGUE have major namesakes for all of their teams. There are other leagues that operate like this

Look at the little bear walking eastward from Iowa to the coast of Illinois.

Is Detroit laying a claim to a coast far away a stretch.  Are there a ton of Detroit emmigrants in Connecticut or NYC or something?  I'm talking more aesthetically of course instead of business or no thought at all.  In looking at it, the lineage of the minor league franchise has always had big league namesakes.
Many teams straddle their areas to sure-up their territory.  Or in a northeast accent, "Shore-up" their territory with affiliation.   Let me attempt some:
Dayton to Cinci, Toledo to Detroit, Toronto to Buffalo, Angels to Inland Empire, Mahoning Valley to Cleveland, Memphis to St. Louis, WV to Pitt, Potomac to D.C.

If I were a mathematician or not so lazy, I'd crunch the numbers.  For practicality purposes, not all locations are going to be so much about proximity to the farm.  In Cincinnati, we eat but do not grow our bananas here.  How many Triple A farm clubs are close to the main metropolis?
Plenty more with regional and not-so-regional proximities.  For instance, Miami's triple-A is New Orleans, as of now.  Both coastal.  Both decorated with pelicans.

click --- List_of_Minor_League_Baseball_leagues_and_teams

Teams like the St. Paul Saints and the Kansas City T-Bones share towns of major league hubs.  It'd be neato to come up with some maps for all of this jibber jabber succotash.


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WNBA. So why not the WMLS?

Wouldn't it be neat to watch the Lady Crew play before the Crew play in Columbus?  Wouldn't it be nice for some Division 1 ladies and outstanding lasses abroad to be able to play out a few more years.
I don't want to make it sound condescending with some resentment of Title 10 and how many people come out to watch but butted up against the MLS might play out well.  It's not easy being a woman and balancing out there lives.  That's for sure.  But to be real, it would be an exhibition.  But maybe not.  It would be a great place for girls to aspire to, also.  Not a bad thing for the blokes to watch either.  It could become huge one day.  Who knows what the future would hold?  All it needs is numbers in the stands.  Population grows and half of that is the little girls to ladies.

Citrus College Owls

You'd watch.

And now for some Cinci College action.

Xavier U.

Miami U.

Volleyball at UC.  You'd watch that too.

-Pro Women's League link
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Women%27s_Soccer_League




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The Seattle Pilots. And Mariners. A tiny look-see for a case study.

My dude, wikipedia.

Learn about the birthing pains that led to the Seattle Mariners.

Perhaps this will be the like of Atlanta in the MLS and NHL again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Pilots

link: http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/al/pastsea/pilots.html

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A good name for the newest Cincinnati team.

What is in a name?
Heritage.  Fun.  That's American.
I feel the kinkiness in Chicago names probably more accurately befit San Francisco in going with heritage.  But I suppose they chose their monikers for fun, all the same.

What is a Cincinnati Red?  They were Red Stockings and Redlegs.  So, some military uniform representation for American patriots as indicated by Boston baseball.  Is it patriotic?  The Reds were first.  Certainly it's not a reference to poor whites on an island as can be found on the internet.  Is being red mean Irish?  To an extent, yes, that would make sense.  Is it a reference to the city having the first paid fire department?  Imaginatively, yes, that sounds fine.  Commies?  Nah.  The team quite pointedly called itself the Redlegs to defer this connotation.  But anyway, I'm sure there is a Cincinnatian that's a patriotic sonovabitch who happens to love baseball and be a Cincinnati born firefighter of Irish decent worshipping the ghost of Joe Nuxhall somewhere

Off the top of my head we Cincinnatians have had or have some representation called Stingers, Silverbacks, Saints, Mighty Ducks, Cyclones, Mohawks, Commandos and Riverhawks outside of the Big Two play.
Yep, the Cincinnati Royals.

When the MLS ever pours into town, heritage-wise, I wouldn't mind some Cincinnati Redlegs.  Or Queen City United.  Or Queen City Excited.  Screw you, Charlotte.  The Queen City Crown.
Or Boatsman.
Or even a shared venue for the Crew, called the C-bus Express.  Ohio Railroad.
The Cincinnati Majors.  I like that.  The Cincinnati Masters.  Cheering section called the Racquet.

Cinci is a blue collared town too.

That would be a good nod to the region's past, like tennis and other pro venues.  And Revolutionary War spoils.  Business history:  Cincinnati Fortune Fives.  I wouldn't even mind taking my theme of shared team playing their home games in camp cities applying to a trial in the minor leagues.  I'd like to watch a soccer or basketball team called the Cincinnati-Baltimore Railroad.  It's patriotic giving a nod to the birthplace of the national anthem and the country's first inland and truly American city by birth and the notion of westward expansion in general.  Warbirds

Fortune Fives

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Queen City Highlanders

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                                                                                                        INDEX

Cincinnati: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

Fantasy Expansion Example for Hometown

Sin City Flights. An innovative expansion or co-location/relocation for NBA or NHL

Targeted for my Major League Relocation and a Wider Geographic Swath

Yankees Hockey: The Great Lakes/North Coast Hockey Team. A New NHL Franchise and Concept

Color Scheme Identity. The name Blue Collars not claimed after all this time. 

MLS (Bigger Leagues, Major League and Minors)
I'm the Big Five American Sports Czar Today...so, I'm doing this to make New Teams
Cincinnati Pro Sports Locations Past, Present and Future
Soccer in Cincinnati #MLSCincinnatiSoccer
If ever MINOR League Baseball in Cincinnati
The Anaheim Mighty Ducks of Cincinnati. A travel-tag-team
Ohio United. Or call it an Ohio Divided Team. Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex  

Columbus Crew C-Bus Cincinnati - A new Major League Soccer arrangement. MLS Expansion in general.

MLB Expansion Article by NBC: Expansion Teams Westward, the Angels are now even at 4,272 wins and 4,272 losses

"It’s odd to think of a team that has been around for 53 years as an “expansion team,” but that’s what the Angels are. They, along with the version of the Washington Senators which became the Rangers, started play in 1961, representing the first expansion in Major League Baseball since the American League came online in 1901."

The "Modern Era" of baseball is since the early 60's.  And before there were Blue Jays in the 70's, there were Expos in the 60's.

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/08/the-angels-are-now-the-only-expansion-team-to-have-a-500-record/ :  

  

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examples: 

Next MLB Expansion Likely Canada or Mexico

MLB - If each franchise had to camp in two cities... .

Options Options Options. What about this Relocation & Expansion for 32 team MLB ? 

 

MLS Expansion. Shared MLS. MLS Sister Cities.

Shared teams could become successful and culminate into breakaways.  Stirring the pot like with the NBA New Orleans - OKC relationship that culminated in a new insight and location for a franchise.

I wish something would get awarded to San Antonio-Austin (San Marcos) like a team name playing on the old and new world, the Texas Excited.

D.C.:  St. Louis
KC:  OKC
New England:  Baltimore
Toronto:  Edmonton
New York:  Trenton, NJ?

Columbus:  Cleveland and or Cincinnati
Houston:  San Antonio
Philadelphia:  San Diego or Indianapolis me thinks
Chicago:  maybe Cincinnati (first pro firefighters)
Montreal:  Quebec City
Seattle:  Spokane
SLC:  Springfield, IL
Colorado:  Albuquerque
Dallas:  El Paso and/or Austin
Vancouver:  Calgary

LA:  Phoenix
Portland:  Boise
San Jose:  Sacramento
New California Team (not Chiva Divas):  Let's call them the California Express or the California Railroad and place them throughout Cali.  California R&R.  How does that sound in your chivalessness?

NYCFC:  Buffalo.
Miami:  Jacksonville
Tampa Bay:  Michigan (Mutiny has a ring to it.)

It seems Minnesota, Arizona and Atlanta will beckon a team in not too terribly long.


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www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/02/13/mls-expansion-las-vegas-sacramento-minnesota-miami

Arizona Major League Soccer Franchise should be placed in Tucson 

The Chivas should've been moved to Las Vegas Part-Time

Columbus Crew C-Bus Cincinnati - A new Major League Soccer arrangement. MLS Expansion in general

 

 

Ohio MLS. The C-Bus.

Thinking of sister city shared MLS teams and for Ohio, it was a tough one.  Who deserves a Crew team more, Cleveland or Cinci?  Somewhere in between Cleveland-Akron or Dayton-Cinci would seemingly be a great choice for the suburban demographic to reach games and I could dictate soccer stadiums there in my fantasy world.  But in the realistic economy, the Bengals and Browns already have suitable facilities.

I think the "C"-bus is appropriate moniker for Columbus and it's traveling nature to the other two big C towns.  And since I'm not really a dictator I wouldn't really mind that they're not the Ohio Crew, but just the Columbus (or C-bus) Crew and pay visit to the 'Seester Cities.  C-ster.  C-stir.  Get it?

Columbus

Cincinnati

Cleveland

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