The NFL in San Marcos Texas. And Major League Futbol

Austin and the Longhorns

Place a National Football League stadium just south of San Marcos so that it is very reachable for the fans of Sunday showdowns of both Austin and San Antonio.  San Marcos should be the in-between for the Texas sister city rivalry and proximity.

Alamodome in San Antone

What could they be named?
The Texas Cattlemen?
Resurrect the Oilers name?  Or is it going to sound too "Indians" in the next few years?

And just as the Cowboys have locked in loyalty from San Antonio in the past by having some exhibitions there, have the Texas-named team play in El Paso from time to time at the place with over 50,000 seats.

There are enough football seats in both cities to start play of the Texas Oilers soon enough.  It could keep going that way while or until another stadium is built.

The same in-between San Antonio/Austin compromise could be had for a new Texas Major League Soccer squad.  With all the fuss, a "Texas Divided" brand would be new age and a hint at the autonomy of the rest of Texans from the metropolises of Houston and Dallas.


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San Marcos, Texas Should Be the Second Site For Texas Teams 

Arizona Major League Soccer Franchise should be placed in Tucson 

If it can't be a relocated West Coast Coyotes:  "Northern Lights" NHL Team a New Expansion Team for Seattle and Portland. Try that on for Size

 West Coast or Portland Athletics and the Coastal Run Rays of Tampa Bay and New Orleans, 2015 MLB 

West Coast Clippers?  (see below)

West Coast Whales NHL Team in Seattle, Portland and Las Vegas

 Seattle Clippers?

Austin Texas Big Leagues. Bring it

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What City Combinations could you Fly a Flag Over these Regional Names? Sports Expansion

Or could you call them Combo-nations?

Powerbrands

And in which sports leagues would you lump them?

      Examples are West Coast Athletics (also playing in Las Vegas) 

and Clippers also playing in Seattle.
What about an NHL team named Great Lakes shared for Cleveland and Milwaukee?

       Eastland
                            Northland
                                         Southland                South Lakes          
                                                                    Western                   Gulf Coast
North Coast            Great Lakes       North Shore
                                                                            West Coast                         East Coast

Some Cities of Consideration to spark your brainbox:

NBA:  Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City, Seattle.  Baltimore has such proximity to D.C. . Tampa, Austin, Las Vegas

MLB:  Charlotte, Portland, Las Vegas, Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, New Jersey, Buffalo

NFL:  Louisville, Birmingham, El Paso, OKC, Boise

NHL:  Omaha, North and South Dakota.  Cincinnati, Austin, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Salt Lake City

MLS:  a long major league city list.  America will eventually get on board.  Kids are growing up.

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New NBA Team for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville. Tri-State
Possible MLB Pairings with Las Vegas 

Forget building a new ballpark in Oakland. Do it in Las Vegas. The West Coast Athletics

For States without Big League Ball the Next Landing will be Las Vegas or Louisville 

The New 32 Team MLB: Tampa-Monterrey, West Coast, North Country and Southland

Imagine.

Tampa-Monterrey (Mexico) Rays, West Coast A's, North Country Expos and Southland Band

The new MLB cities are Las Vegas and Portland as well as Vancouver on the west side (while considering Oakland as a keep), Montreal (again) as well as Charlotte, Nashville (with Memphis) and New Orleans on the south side as well as Monterrey.  That's a new country and 9 cities.

32 teams now in MLB for a two-team expansion.
And an expansion of territory using two failing franchises and doing a relocation/co-location.

A's versus Rays.  Look at those seats.

HOW DO YOU ADD TWO NEW MAJOR LEAGUE TEAMS 

AND GET MORE THAN 9 NEW MLB CITIES?

Right there.

Considered rough and tumble ballparks

wikipedia.org/wiki/O.co_Coliseum

wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropicana_Field

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Las Vegas Montreal Internationals Baseball. Major League Expansion Experiment

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

 

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

Kentucky Downs. The NFL in Louisville

Southtown Soundhounds MLS Franchise  

 

Major League Baseball in Tennessee. How to beat out Charlotte for an Expansion Bid. New Brave King of the South 

Major League Baseball in Vancouver and Montreal. Make it one team. North Country Lumberjacks. The 'Jacks !!!

Having stadiums and some fan base focal points in the east and west can justify any division alignment.  So if MLB had a two team expansion and thought about Portland and/or Charlotte, it wouldn't have to leave the likes of Montreal out of the picture.  Or Vancouver.

Really, you could do the West Coast Athletics in the likes of Oakland, Portland, Las Vegas and/or Vancouver and resurrect the Expos as the East Coast Expos.  If the Expos were the new team (again) the Rays could vacate Tampa for Charlotte AND Nashville.  There are a few ways to dice it.  If you wanted a south of the border counterpart to Canada, a Porltand-Charlotte Coastal City Flights (or Jets) ball club could win the hearts of those towns.  At least better some than none right?  The airliner part is certainly respective of their economies.  Would you call the new broader Canadian franchise the Flights?  The Pack?

But to sure up the Canadian market and bring about more solidarity outside of the Blue Jays, the 'Jacks playing in east and west Canada's Montreal and Vancouver, I see a more expansive way forward for MLB.

Since apparently, toe-tapping markets isn't looking so great for the league anytime soon, toss the ideas around in your mind.

bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2015/04/09/scenario02.html?page=all

canamleague.com

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Las Vegas Montreal Internationals Baseball. Major League Expansion Experiment

Cuba? Major League Baseball in Havana Someday Sooner? 

Defunct American CFL Teams

More Canadian NHL teams

International Expansion Creep

Vancouver NBA, Montreal MLB and 7 new CFL teams by 2035
Gulf Run Rays. Major League Baseball in Monterrey, New Orleans and Tampa 

Midlakes Mustangs NHL Expansion Team 

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

Canadian Band - NHL Travel Tag Team for Outlander Canada 

Transteleportation of Sports Spectatorship

Austin Texas Big Leagues. Bring it

kxan.com/2015/04/15/study-austin-could-support-nfl-nba-nhl-or-mls-team

The American Business Journal's Sports Expansion Market Study is sure to cause news articles across many cities.  And Austin is one of the largest cities vacant of it.  The tout of the town is usually Longhorns Football.
When the big time enters the likes of Las Vegas or Austin, it is sure to get rowdy.

If you have market sense and a sports aesthetic about you, I'm sure you'd agree that it's a more deserving city of the NHL than is Houston, and a NFL or NBA team would do just fine there as well as Major League Soccer.

In previous posts I have talked about building a small MLB park in Austin so the Rangers could represent there part of the time alongside Dallas Arlington.

F1 motor sports being promoted in the heart of Texas

 whetstoneaudio.com/?m=2012

Even with franchises in San Antonio, Houston and Dallas cornering the state capital, it can work.  Think MLS franchise named Texas Divided.  How cool is that?

Houston, I have a problem with this: hockeyvips.com/2015/04/the-best-city-for-nhl-expansion-is

Just like I do with Montreal topping the list for baseball....


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NHL Team in Austin and Las Vegas called the West Coast Cattle Drive
Mid-American Cities that should Get More Pro Teams. And Austin

A Travel Team in Big Five Sports. Could it work?

San Marcos, Texas Should Be the Second Site For Texas Teams

California Angels Again

Southern California is very well represented in baseball.  As is the Bay Area.

Let's give back to California's capital, Sacramento, its team in name again, and put it there part of the time.

Put another one of these Angels ballparks in Northern California.

Home base and north base

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What are your thoughts on this Place of Play Expansion in the Big Four Sports?

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A Travel Team in Big Five Sports. Could it work?

Barnstormers

Do you dip your toes in or do you just leap?
Dive or cannon ball?

Businesses can test the waters.

I wonder how much they have floated this idea.

As far as the NBA and NHL, I know they have.
Saskatoon was involved in the idea for hockey.  It was with St. Louis.  The Gateway City also had a lot of home games for the Kansas City-Omaha Kings which played in two states with three of their cities.  As far as that NBA team was set up, I'd like to see it happen these days.  A good sample would be for the Oakland A's to become the West Coast A's and then also play in Las Vegas and/or Portland.  How do you think this travel-tag-team idea would work?  Camps instead of homes?  A region represented instead of just the city name?

For baseball, I would love to see it take place on the professional level, even if in the minor leagues.  A Cincinnati team in the Pioneer League or in low A-Ball would be nice.  Perhaps call them the Townies?  The Hoods (neighborhoods)?

As far as the travel-tag-team model, put a figurative gun to your head and get creative.  If you're in Pittsburgh and want an NBA team, but your only option is to share the club with another major city, what would you come up with and how would you name it and brand it?


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Samples:

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   
Sin City Flights. An innovative expansion or co-location/relocation for NBA or NHL
Re-coin the Florence Freedom the Tri-State Freedom Riders

Midlakes Mustangs NHL Expansion Team 

Major League Baseball in Las Vegas

Business Journal Market Study 2015

Ohio Aviators NBA Team

Grey Coast Ghosts. NHL Expansion Team that Includes Portland and Seattle. West Coast Brand

What are your thoughts on this Place of Play Expansion in the Big Four Sports?

 

Could the Rangers play in another stadium like this (perhaps somewhat scaled down) in the likes of Austin, El Paso or San Antonio?

 

 

Possible MLB Pairings with Las Vegas

Short List:

Las Vegas-Monterrey expansion
Montreal International Expos
Charlotte Flights

Some merges:

Portland A's or the West Coast A's with Oakland also.
California Angels of Las Vegas West Coast
Arizona Diamondbacks of Vegas
NY Mets

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insider.espn.go.com

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Major League Baseball in Las Vegas

Indoor Canadian Baseball League ? It Gets Cold in America also! Let's do it

I'm thinking a bar, perhaps one that does volleyball or even bowling, can anchor an indoor facility to it for some great indoor activities such as cornhole and wiffleball.  It would be a nice place to operate a hot stove batting cage.  Steel frame and space heaters.

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

wiki/List_of_baseball_teams_in_Canada

canadianbaseballnetwork.com/articles/bwdik-delgado-carter-walker-halladay/
Something not all the way ragball, not all the way wiffleball or tennis ball.  Something that could happen in a reasonable indoor space.  But what would that be?

10-1 win over China, thestar.com

Think about it.  Think aboot' it.
Maybe break up the monotony of broomball games.
Wiffleball Derby.
Nerf football indoors


Other thoughts:  more flag or two-hand tag leagues.  Winter blues.  Winter boo's.  Winter booze.

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Major League Baseball in Tennessee. How to beat out Charlotte for an Expansion Bid. New Brave King of the South
Southland Pioneers Major League Baseball Team. Or the Southland Rays. In Nashville and Charlotte 

The NHL in Lincoln-Omaha. A Big League Team for Nebraska 

 Arizona Diamondbacks of Albuquerque MLB Expansion

King of the Sports World. Cincinnati Kid Expands the Sports World

4 Team MLB (Expansion) Addition.  Brainstorming:

East Coast Internationals -  It's a Charlotte Montreal team.  Should I name them the Flights?  Expos?

Southtown Soundhounds - Nashville-New Orleans tag team

Major League Queen City

West Coast (Wolf Pack) - Portland-Las Vegas

Coastal Run Rays - Tampa-Monterrey



          NFL
West Coast Raiders:  Portland/Las Vegas
Norde Force:  CFL stadiums throughout Canada  I moved the Jaguars.  Thought about London
Southland Franchise expansion team that plays in Louisville, a new stadium in Reform, Alabama and sometimes Jacksonville, , formerly Jaguars

      


          NHL
Southlakes Fisherman, formerly Panthers
West Coast Coyotes of Seattle/Portland 

                 MLS
Great Lakes Redlegs expansion for Cincinnati/Indianapolis.  Should I name them North Coast?

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             NBA
West Coast Clippers
part-time Cincinnati Celtics

My Installment After a Decade.  More groundwork for the world.

Moscow.
I'd build baseball complexes, even indoor ones.  I'd do this with all of the sports really.  A substitute for vodka could be more indoor recreation.
I'd place big league teams there to see the world bar for these gladiator exploits of sport.

Not sure If I would make Major League Soccer a big league anymore.  Maybe I would designate it "Minor Premiere".  To get American soccer up to par, a lot more attention will have to be developed with it domestically.

I might do a regional breakdown divisions for some of the Big Leagues.

Team East Asia     Team West Asia
Team Oceana     Team Africa
Team East Europe     West Europe
Sur and one for Norte Americano (or probably just Mexico i Cenro Americana).

This World Dictator would of course throw opulent proverbial pyramids into my hometown.  The Queen City, for now renamed the King City of Cincinnati.
Just a few examples
Fantasy Expansion Example for Hometown 
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

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

A good name for the newest Cincinnati team.

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

http://cincinnatiprofessionalsportsspots.blogspot.com/2014/06/what-i-would-do-for-cincinnati-as.html

MLB to 2100 AD. A Little Brainstorming for Beyond.

Think I failed the psych eval to have a chance to ever become the Executive tenth man (  mlb.com/mlb/official_info/about_mlb/executives.jsp ).  Coming back down to planet earth, I'd make this suggestion as a Office of the Future member, brainstormer to the executives:

Relocation/Co-location:  West Coast Athletics of Portland/Oakland

                                     

                                      Tampa-Monterrey Rays Coastal Run Baseball Club 

Expansion to 32 teams:    Las Vegas-Montreal Expos International Baseball Club

                                       Southland Stallions of Charlotte and Nashville

5 beautiful ballparks built and a renovation.  And maybe another renovation for Oakland or Vancouver part-time as the West Coast brand?

Rays or Southland future for Memphis or New Orleans.  A breakaway possibility that results in a Tennessee Memphis/Nashville co-location breakaway.

                                      So many options, so little market room.

mlb.com/mlb/official_info/about_mlb/executives.jsp?bio=selig_bud

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Tennis, NASCAR and Golf Venues in Your Area. And mine.

It's outside the realm of the Big Five Sports and perhaps serves as an outlet for the pros in other team sports, but the titled sports have their time to shine in America.

I'm going to tackle this look from the perspective of a hometown Cincinnati kid and the venues nearest to me for what I'm going to call "America's Other 3".

For tennis, it shines in Cincinnati in the neighborhood and suburb of Kings Island in Mason.

cincytennis.com

Aston Oaks just west of Cinci

A golf venue takes up the most space.  Does a Cincinnati kid have an idea for a bigger, better venue to build for the PGA?  I'd like some input.
pga.com/golf-courses/details/oh/cincinnati

The Kentucky Speedway is a drive south down river to Sparta, Kentucky that is about the distance to Dayton up north, 40 miles.

Could Butler County in between Cincinnati and Dayton build a NASCAR venue some day?  Or should something up just west or north of Dayton that would be a draw, further away from Kentucky's shine and a more accessible feel for people from Toledo and Columbus while still eyeballing Indy around Interstate 70 some hundred miles away?
kentuckyspeedway.com/
wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Speedway

And speaking of Kentucky, there's horse racing.

And in other sports, there's a basketball alternative like volleyball.  Is that part of America's Other Four?  I've blog-mentioned lacrosse.  There's cricket.  What else am I missing?  What team sport outside of the Big Five will be biggest?  Will humanity's future grow so bountiful that such alternatives will grow in popularity?

Check out Football at a NASCAR venue:        bristolmotorspeedway.com/battleatbristol

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  The Big ....Six ? What's next? Lacrosse? ...Frisbee?

NBA Sister Cities Abroad. 

The Oakland Baseball Team AND Football Team Move to Portland ??? A's and Raiders ?!?!

 

Business Journal Market Study 2015

bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2015/04/09/sportmain.html

Their study determined that the minimum requirement of Total Personal Income (TPI) bases for an area are $104 billion for an MLB team, $48 billion in the NFL, $45 billion in the NBA, $50 billion in the NHL, $14 billion in MLS and $26 billion in the Power Five.  So, that's:

$104B MLB     More than double of all the others.  Good luck getting a team, unless you can perhaps entertain my tag-travel-team model. ie.  West Coast Athletics (Portland or Vegas and Oakland) and the East Coast Rays of Charlotte and Tampa.


$50B NHL

$48B NFL

$45B NBA

$14B MLS

Their best-suited list:

• Major League Baseball (MLB): Montreal
• National Football League (NFL): Los Angeles-Anaheim
• National Basketball Association (NBA): Las Vegas
• National Hockey League (NHL): Houston
• Major League Soccer (MLS): Las Vegas 

And for those paying attention for awhile, aesthetically, Montreal and Houston seem somewhat silly.  The math might be there, but not the passionate stakeholders.

                                 bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2015/04/09/sportmain.html?page=all

Throwing my hat with two cents in it, I attempt to counter the depressing reality of many markets' ability to have a team by sharing one.  That's much of the context of my blog.  For this sports capacity study, for instance, I think crunching the math of Dayton with the existing football stadiums in Cleveland and Cincinnati, an Ohio Divided franchise in Major League Soccer could be sustained for my peoples.

LIST OF CITIES (CLICK)

Haberdashery: bleedcubbieblue.com/2015/2/13/8033655/a-look-at-possible MLB expansion
While the NJ sandwich can be stretched as a metro area in between Philly and the Big Bite Apple, it's no city.  And while I appreciate disclosure and thoughtfulness towards expansion, alignment that puts Colorado and Minnesota in the "South" and the Rays in the north is hard to be serious about.

         WHAT DO YOU THINK?

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Stadium & an Arena for Five or more Sports

Efficient land use is the thought.  Being environmentally considerate.

How tough would it be switching out the baseball diamond for the football field for the soccer field?
And it's still got to be a pain in the arse to switch out hockey and basketball.

Just going to give you a visual in the form of a 1990 World Series reunion.  Stadium pics below.  And what if we were to hook the hockey/b-ball court facility and stadiums together to conserve that much more space.

GABP sandwiched between the old Riverfront Stadium and Coliseum.  The new set-up is pretty close.  Blocks away is the NFL stadium.

Oakland

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Ohio Aviators NBA Team

I see action at a revamped Cincinnati Gardens and the Nutter Center (suburbia Dayton).  Before a renovated (or newly built) Cincinnati site, the old Riverfront Coliseum named after some bank, could make a good site.  Value City Arena's 20 thousand seats in Columbus shouldn't be ignored totally from NBA play.

Ohio's Middletown to represent a chunk of NBA middle America?  Smack dab in the middle of a few million Dayton Cincinnati (Daynnati or Cinday) people.  That would be a compromise to Dayton or Cincinnati, though I could easily see two spots for an Ohio Aviators basketball squad.

Cincinnati Royals

Wright State University Nutter Center's 10k seats for b-ball, UD's 13k, Columbus's 20k and Cinci's 17k could be good tents while the big digs are built taking another corner or half of Ohio's big time basketball love.


Have any other ideas for names?  Comment.





Off of I-75 and the largest arena between Cincinnati and Columbus.
wikipedia.org/wiki/UD_Arena

NBA Dayton bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2015/04/09/capacity

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The Quebec Nordiques and the Las Vegas Aces ???

Check out the little naming contest from ESPN:
espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/12638788/uni-watch-las-vegas-nhl-expansion-team-logo-colors-contest

"Aces" can lend to the card table as much as it can to aviation.

Myself, I like Blue Chips, kinda'.

prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2015/04/07/quebec-citys-new-arena-has-a-name-but-no-nhl-team

reviewjournal.com/sports/here-are-5-possible-names-las-vegas-nhl-team

thewowstyle.com

Does the above pic artistically merge thoughts of Canada and Nevada for you?

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Samples:

West Coast Whales NHL Team in Seattle, Portland and Las Vegas

Major League Baseball in Las Vegas

Forget building a new ballpark in Oakland. Do it in Las Vegas. The West Coast Athletics

Major League Baseball in Charlotte and Portland. And then Las Vegas and Nashville. No Expansion Team Necessary

Hidalgo Texas Professional Basketball and Soccer. Rio Grande Valley

vavel.com/en-us/soccer/470265-usl-adds-rio-grande-valley-as-expansion-team.html

Hockey and soccer are the sports of big balls for the world.  It's in Hildalgo, Texas; not the biggest city in Hildalgo County.

tripadvisor.com

The D-League exists here in the form of the Rio Grande Valley surname.  A junior hockey team reps ice hockey and an arena soccer team kicks around the area before this newest calling of the USL team expanding into town.  There is also an indoor American-style football team in the Southern Indoor Football League.

Get some baseball in there and Rio Grande Valley is golden.  Quite frankly, I bet you're as surprised as I that hockey has a presence there before baseball, in this region that includes Brownsville and McAllen, touting an outstretched number of about a million folks.  McAllen hosted an independent league team before.

Perhaps the Rio Grande Valley will get a baseball team and be a feeder for the Rangers and 'Stros systems someday.  The NBA has its roots and now MLS has eyeballs on the area.

Somewhere growing in the area of a dozen thousand people live in Hildalgo and as an American border city you can imagine it will grow many times over.  It is sure to be more of an international place than most. 

Do you think that the southern tip of Texas may be the tip of the iceberg?

wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidalgo,_Texas

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samples:

Want a Big League Team? Support Your Minor League Club

Monterrey Rays. Or Sur Toros? MLB in Mexico 

Gulf Run Rays. Major League Baseball in Monterrey, New Orleans and Tampa
New Jersey Major League Baseball Team. And what about Buffalo? 

Dakota NHL Team 

Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL 

New NBA Team for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville. Tri-State 

NBA D-League Expansion Thought. Travel Teams. And Outdoor Action 

Arizona Major League Soccer Franchise should be placed in Tucson

 

Grey Coast Ghosts. NHL Expansion Team that Includes Portland and Seattle. West Coast Brand

Portland-Seattle as a tag team.  Technically it would be a travel team.  But traveling to two homes (camps) isn't that big of a deal.  Every team plays road games.  They'll just have two homes.

Shume at deviantart

The Grey Coast team could be a Northwest regional team moniker and more embraceable by the likes of Idaho and maybe even some way northern California kids.

Imagine the haunting spooky imagery that could be conjured up in this brand.  A wolf off in the distance.  An apparition of a wolf.  The reeper.  The shadow of a sasquatch.  Big Feet.  Some bad arse white uniforms.  Some play on gray and black.

But above all, hockey haunting and echoing through the sounds of hockey areas neighboring our cousins to the north makes a ton more sense priority-wise than do the likes of the sandy beaches (and mirages) of Arizona, Vegas and Miami.  Let's make it happen.  Portland, this looks like your only shot, lest the City of Sin, Coyotes or Panthers fail soon.

sbnation.com/nhl/2015/3/5
fiveforhowling.com/2015/5/1/8527693/new-developments-for-nhl-hockey-in-seattle h
www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2015/04/30/victor-coleman-seattle-arena-tukwila-chris-hansen



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West Coast Whales NHL Team in Seattle, Portland and Las Vegas

Portland: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports
Portland the NHL's Bridesmaid. Maybe the Bride. Expansion/Relocation

"West Coast" named Franchises get an MLB, NFL and NHL Team. Bigtime Win for Portland and Vegas

Major League Baseball in Charlotte and Portland. And then Las Vegas and Nashville. No Expansion Team Necessary 

Portland Blue Sox for Major League Baseball (or West Coast Athletics)

Florida Panthers can be ridiculous. Co-Locate the Team. Rebrand. Southlakes Fisherman. #NHLExpansion 

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

East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL 

32 Team Major League Baseball Expansion. And 5 or more MLB Cities