Friday, January 29, 2016

Cincinnati Basketball Bengals. When NBA ...MLS or NHL comes to the Queen City Jungle

Talk about badass uniforms and alliteration.

Blah blah blah, Football Giants and Cardinals.  They can be beat alliterately' with the
Cincinnati Basketball Bengals.

And something more for Cincinnati to look forward to.  Hopefully.  This is just a part of my Cincinnati Kid daydreaming series.  I'm not salivating for the NBA.  I don't miss the Royals.  They were before I was born.  I have X and UC with Miami, Dayton and Ohio State being a stretch.

I'd prefer the NHL.  Outside of Louisville and inside of Ohio, I'd truly vote for an NBA team to be housed in the Dayton area, which is within reach of Columbus and very within reach of Cincinnati.  Naturally they'd be an Ohio named team, something to the tune of Ohio Flights.  Thinking of a sick joke, ...they could be called the Owls playing at the old Riverfront Coliseum if you think about the Who concert.

If but when the Queen City of Cincinnati lands the grounder of major league level soccer....  What's the name?  FC Queen City?  The Saints had a ring to it for their time.  Ohio Divided sounds gloriously like a sarcastic American thing.  Moving along ... .

For a big time hockey brand, I'd love some split time for a Great Lakes named team between Cincinnati and Cleveland and even more appropriately in Indianapolis/Milwaukee.  But what when a Queen City team?  Hockey Bengals is awkward anyway you picture it. 
Cincinnati Diesel sounds like something.  That's some universal apparel.  Picture that exhaust from screaming fans.  Damnation, if I don't mention the alliteration in some kind of Dakota Diesel brand.

The broader state of business counters realities right now to be in the likes of the Dakotas.  But look at the beautiful arena upgrades in cities like Pittsburgh, Kansas City and Cincinnati for the likes of the NBA or NHL expansion/relocation.
Remember the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks?  US Bank Arena (Riverfront Coliseum is getting a big league upgrade).
Rumors on the electrified wire are bluffs concerning the Raiders being a Las Vegas brand.  And Seattle reinvigorating their talk of being a new house in the league. Seattle Metropolitans again?

What do you think about any or all of this?
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Can Dallas be the Next Two-Team Town in Baseball?

There are already a handful of towns with two teams.  NY, Chi and LA.  And for all intents and purposes, the butted areas of the Bay and D.C. are also.

For awhile, teams named California or Florida coexisted with other teams existed in cities of their respective states.  And the Astros are in Houston in some Ranger Country claim.  Maybe, like I've said awhile ago, the Rangers could just part-time it down nearer their two big cities down the road, the town of the Alamo and the other being their bustling and growing capital city.


So, what if San Antonio-Austin gets a team?  Can we have another Texas?  Why not.  I'm sure folks in Albany and Buffalo are Yankees or Mets fans.  It's not necessarily the New York City Mets or anything.

What would we name another team in Dallas?  Of course it would have to be a National League team.  That's a no-brainer since the 'Stros moved into the American League next to the Rangers.
The Dallas Lone Stars?

What would we name a Central Texas MLB team?  Central Texas Tornadoes?  Texas Country Cattlemen?  How would you feel if your dad was killed in a tornado or your mom was killed by a Tiger or your mom shot in a drug raid by Texas Rangers?
Lone Star Rattlers?  Cowboys?  Ranchers.  Would a "Hill Country Rider" brand apparel appeal beyond the stretches of Texas to riders of all sort and outlanders outside of metro areas throughout the country?

What do you think?  Are you kind of like me and think that Oklahoma City would get a midland nod before 3 is a crowd in Texas?  In another two team expansion or some kind of relocation to you see the likes of Charlotte and Nashville or even Indianapolis landing big baseball before?  Will a relocation land in Austin or Montreal and Portland first?

Head for Hill Country?
It is a mind exercise that will only be proven as a marathon apparently.  A brand new home and brand change from the Rays, Marlins or A's seems more like a news tease than business actual, especially for Austin and San Antonio coexisting with Houston and Dallas.



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Just a Thought: What if a Cincinnati Canadian Football League Team?

Lately, the Bengals have lent a little more of my time to this thought.
And this is just a fun little hometown boy exercise for me.  Gun-to-my-head what-would-you-do sort of thing.  I might suspend reality or deal with what I have to work with.

What would it be named?  We'll get there.
Where it would play shouldn't be up for heated debate actually.  Ya' know, with the taxpayers paying for a big stadium and all.  But for snips and wiggles, what if a 20k seat facility was built for the football program at Mount St. Joseph or Cinci Christian U.?  A new consolidated high school OHSAA football/soccer stadium in I-75 around Butler/Warren County could happen.  The CFL team could help anchor down the finances and inspire the build.

Sure, everything I'm saying may pretty much not be feasible today.  But just go with it.  Fun times.

Cincinnati Celtics?  We have had a Celts before.
Cincinnati was built on many o' Irish and German emigration. 
The Cincinnati Earthlings sound good?  "Americans" too polarizing or political?  Planetarians?

Cincinnati Brigade with a firetruck theme?  That's cool.  Queen City Brigade 
I like Blue Collars too.
Cincinnati Eagles in the CFL.

Kingsmen, Knights, Bucks, Union, Rivermen
Ohio Railroad, Cinci Masters, Racquets, Boatsman, Tide, Warbirds, Traders, :

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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Did the Clippers Cause Sky High Prices for Carolina et al? Buying on emotion

The Carolina Hurricanes are up for sale.  Sports-wise, all the price tags are up.  Were they artificially inflated by billionaires for billionaires.

So it got me thinking about Clippers riding such waves or the ship causing such conditions (hurricanes).

People buy on emotion.

And a price is whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

And someone said, "it's mine for a BILLION", and proceeded to drop mic.

The second fiddle sold for a billion dollars?

The Clippers?!  Are they a metastasized shift for the worldwide franchises in sports?  
They're not even the Lakers.

The Canadian money is looney right now.  In other words, teams in the states here are at an advantage according to the exchange rate.  How easily can a wave crash or a penguin float on such conditions?  It makes the money look better for a puck landing in Seattle.   Just stirring the thought pot.

I have a couple points.  People buy on emotion and multi-billions can buy.  TV ratings are more important than ticket sales.  That bodes well for the likes of you, Arkansas.

And since I love to indulge in relocation/colocations I have alternatives for an abandoned Pittsburgh and disappearance from the Carolina Triangle:  Allow me to indulge, even in unlikelihoods.
click: Out of Bounds, but the Penguins and Hurricanes are up For Sale...
Where's a suitable landing sport for a hurricane?
Supposedly, or aesthetically there are some towns already in the mind of many:  Seattle, Portland and lake towns, though saturated (most cities in sports are), like Cleveland and Milwaukee are if anything, good backup plans for the NHL.  Toronto has greater room.  Stretching out in Ontario is a safe bet, even safer than a gamble in Northwest Arizona, aka Las Vegas.  Quebec City and Toronto Two beckon NHL's claim of a four team expansion.

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Here's my thought-tree:  The Hurricane "C" doesn't need modification if moved to Cleveland or Cincinnati.  And/or Cincinnati.  Think about that Great Lakes brand I've blogged about to part-time in the likes of Indianapolis, especially with concerns to an east coast balance in NHL division alignment.  Or:  East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two Place Team in the NHL
Could that be the relocation for Carolina?  The East Coast Canes?  What about a West Coast or Grey Coast Ghosts:  Grey Coast Ghosts. NHL Expansion Team for Seattle with Portland    West Coast Canes sounds nifty.  Men making waves where waves are technically even hurricanes, but typhoons.

Put plainly, I think it's nutso to not do Seattle or Portland before Sin City.  I know politics and business intersecting causes complication that can be at odds with romance realities, as with aethetics.  And Las Vegas is the king of a synthesized manufactured aesthetic.  Instead of hockey, the West Coast Clippers or even hockey's Coyotes should've been there (part-time/all season) to toe-tap the market.

I wish one of these leagues would do something innovative.  But I also understand the price games.  By now, shouldn't billionaires be footing the bill?  It's not like it's only a sugar daddy relationship with business and fandom.

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Brits with Soccer (Real Foot Ball) and Rugby. Americans Snuck Feetball

But that's okay.  To where some refer to as the mothership or land of cousins, football will be dually' debated in Great Britain again.

Which one is the real football?  Can it be answered with "per capita" in world context, or simply settled with the adjective "Colonial" or "American"?  Or what about the frequency being the actual foot coming into contact with the ball?

Bear with me further for this paragraph as I wax poetic bloviation off my chest:  This debate of rugby and (football or) soccer colliding to become football, with the latter (the punt, the extra point) sometimes being an exclamation point, ......many times by the littlest guy of all the battle (the kicker), as our breaths are bated and our emotions hinged on the David's phalanges (dodging the Goliaths)..... or some sort of excuse or gross misjudgment (the inept part-time ref!  Cheatgate!).  Oh, man drama!

Balls collide with Feet
Playing instead of watching is the gladiator.  Our distraction.  The lion inside us overcome.  A man drama of angst that evokes familiarity, these sports, these battles, even in a newfound mankind hubbub of feasting and peace on the timeline of mankind.  Our sports.  We the warrior hasbin!  Hath battled, unarmed, far back as a child with a mind trumpet in civil wars and battles with neighbors having grown up with the wisdom now as a coach.  Or a couch!  Our fearlessness on display if we so choose!  I am the Lion, the Tiger or the Bear, suited up in jersey, pronounced.  Beckoning the gloves off, and a slap to the shirtless warpaint at the frontlines upon choice or by proxy (television) and my own command of war chest.  We control our sleeper cell, inspired yet nobody commands us, and sometimes our fun is a house divided.  Mankind or the mercenary to blame for this display.
Sorry, I did it again.  The coffee!, I sayeth!  Nothing about cricket or baseball now either.

Do you see football in London soon?  I have heard rumblings or murmurs of 5 games in London and 3 in Manchester as an idea.  According to my camping theme of sports teams, this is a great way for expansion.


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Was Jacksonville a setup this entire time?  Or was the thought of Orlando enough as a lifeboat?  An investment for down the road (or across the pond)?  A triangle in resort Florida and tipped to a Navy and veteran transplant town, however nice it may be?  Granted, Floridian football attendance may not be quite as pronounced as the MLB fiasco.  But I just wonder about that expansion two decades ago that smothered together in SEC country.  Or is it plainly having more camps for the rich to philander, like an expansion to somewhere like.....I don't know, Vegas?

London the financial or capital of the planet, a hub for the next leap.  It's the stuff of $60 million salaries in a world of doers, watchers and sales.  Both footballs will be bettered.

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Great Lakes SC. Major League Soccer. By Popular Demand?

Why doesn't MLS take a national poll?  Slap it on the website.

The drive from Syracuse, New York to Milwaukee is about 770 miles and would surely encompass a territory or claim larger than New England or the Golden State.

As of now, Rochester, through Cleveland, Toledo, to Detroit and Milwaukee don't have the MLS brands.  Neither do Indianapolis or Cincinnati.  Or Erie.  Or South Bend and on and on in the region.  There are a lot of medium sized cities.  Wouldn't it be nice for places like this or even Athens and Dayton Ohio to have MLS show up?  A major league drive but more like a 15 minute drive.  At least once a year.  Be nice.  There are plenty of suitable facilities in place.  And why should a financial investment that the league is worry about weighing itself down on unsure bets on a slab of wet concrete?  Sure, they could be slow.  Or they could market fast.  And toe tap with the fans face to face and see for themselves.

Let's face it, soccer needs to become more popular in the US.  Television can help that for sure.  But to see it up close is different.  If it's not a Dayton or Cinci ride for me,...I'm not looking for excuses to drive to C-Bus to peak (or peek) at the Crew.  I don't love it enough for an excuse or gas money.  Not yet anyway.  Sorry, I wasn't playing soccer as a kid.  I was fixated on the other Major League and they were all over the place and always with me when not physically a couple miles away.

The rightful claims to lakes are most poignant for big houses in Cleveland to Detroit to Milwaukee.  Indianapolis and Cincinnati scream out a little too.  The Rochester Syracuse soccer region are most deserving.  I can't make up my mind for just two selections if a Great Lakes team played camp once a month in two towns.  What about you?

Great Lakes FC, SC, Fleet Feet or something'orother. 
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The Future of CFL Expansion/Relocation. In America?

And let's do this.  Let's not revisit a franchise from the previously failed American ones.
That's leaves out Shreveport, Las Vegas, San Antonio, Sacramento, Memphis and Birmingham.

And yes, it's tempting for me to utilize names I have considered in posts like my minor league football one ( Imagine some Minor League Football Affiliations)   It's a pastime, like hotstove heartbreak recovery for a Bengals loss.
But anyway, here's me throwing some out there on the side of new turf.

Portland (Oregon) Trucking
Salt Lake City Union
Oklahoma (City) Oilers
I like the ol' Omaha Nighthawks UFL brand. Nebraska Nighthawks alliteration.
The Boise Band
Hartford or Albany Colonials
I like the idea of West Virginia Power
Southern Railroad in Jackson, Mississippi?
Dakota Cattlemen
Kansas Cavalry or vice versa with Dakota ("Cavalry Dakota" has a ring to it, but maybe political sensitivities ring also)
Iowa Express
Arkansas Racers
Delaware Demolition
Virgina Warriors or Ranchers
Highwaymen sounds fantastic.  Who gets that?  Austin?
Santa Fe Express?  New Mexico Natives?  Railroad

Touching Down on NFL regions or very much bordering

Toledo Torpedoes
Michigan Express
Kentucky Downs
St. Louis Stallions
New Jersey Barons or Landlords.  Get it?
San Diego Fleet (if them Chargers bounce)
The following is an excerpt from my blog talk on CFL Expansion 

I'd like to see Toronto (or more) come into the NFL.  The CFL expanding at the same time as the NFL would be neat.  Portland in the west and Toronto hubbing in the east could be the newest of 34 teams.  I know the CFL doesn't want to be neither a de facto minor league system or expansion testing grounds for the NFL.  But the issue of American CFL expansion teams is likely to be a matter of decades apart.  And now, the CFL is just 9 teams.  I'd at least urge something like a Louisville team now.
Another Canadian MLB Franchise? Vancouver Athletics and Raiders? And the Norde Force Canadian NFL Team

But anyway, if the city that the CFL is expanding to would seem to be on the horizon or cusp for being an NFL consideration, I suggest this stipulation for such a CFL franchise to suit the portability in a universal fashion.  Let me say this:  Portland for expanding into the CFL.  The name:  Trucking.  After all, Baltimore got their Ravens move pretty fast after claiming an American cup, so yeah, the thoughts are there.  Could the Stallions have moved on to St. Louis instead of those Rams in '95?
If Portland Trucking needed a relocation.  Problem solved:  Las Vegas Trucking, Salt Lake City Trucking.  Insert Trucking.
If you had to gamble your life on "will this be an NFL city and leave the CFL in 10 years" stipulate the expansion with the tag of "Trucking".
Company sounding official domain names like Trucking, Power, Steel, Public Works, Police, Fire, Brigade, Battalion, Fleet are pretty universal, if not fixed (stationary) or portable (mobile).

Could the CFL cash in on some outliers and outlanders?  Would they embrace my travel-tag-team model, for a better territory, best?  I'll lump in a few of my regional powerbrand selections in a post soon to come.

If you have ideas big or tiny, give me a shot.  What do you think?

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

CFL Expansion: Michigan Gatekeepers, Ohio Torpedoes and Kentucky Downs

I could see the Michigan and other franchises leasing existing stadiums for their play in the Canadian Football League.
I would like to see the Torpedoes in Toledo, Ohio-named or otherwise.  24 miles separates an option of a 26k seat facility or a 28k one within the Toledo to Bowling Green collegiate stadium drive.
Before I have talked about the Kentucky Downs in Louisville (Kentucky Downs. The NFL in Louisville)
Sure, I'm cognizant of a not overly joyous economy for Detroit's surroundings and the reality of exchange rates.  I'm not sure Toledo will embrace the Torpedoes as a brand to usher them in as a NFL hopeful one day and that day being ahead of Columbus.  If the team felt the need to regroup a brand of lulls in Toledo, they could co-locate and camp around other towns that crave more ....or other football.  I wouldn't mind watching Ohio's Army (Navy) or Fleet take on some Roughriders.  Gives me something else to be pissed off about other than the Bengals mercenaries.  Nothing to say for Browns fans.  Maybe ditto for Lions and Wolverines fans.

I'd like to see Toronto (or more) come into the NFL.  The CFL expanding at the same time as the NFL would be neat.  Portland in the west and Toronto hubbing in the east could be the newest of 34 teams.  I know the CFL doesn't want to be either a de facto minor league system or expansion testing grounds for the NFL.  But the issue of American CFL expansion teams parting ways for a bigger audience is likely to be a matter of decades apart.  And now, the CFL is just 9 teams.  I'd at least urge something like a Louisville team now.  And hey, more American viewership of CFL will hurt the CFL somehow?  How?  Or is the NFL more interested in monopoly or crazy tariffs?

Another Canadian MLB Franchise? Vancouver Athletics and Raiders? And the Norde Force Canadian NFL Team

But anyway, if the city that the CFL is expanding to would seem to be on the horizon or cusp for being an NFL consideration, I suggest this stipulation for such a CFL franchise in order to suit the portability of name in a universal fashion.  Let me say this:  Portland and any other iffy name for expanding into the CFL.  The name:  Trucking.
If Portland Trucking needed a relocation, problem solved:  Las Vegas Trucking, Salt Lake City Trucking.  Insert Trucking.  If you had to gamble your life on "will this be an NFL city in 10 years" stipulate the expansion with the tag of "Trucking".

Gun to your head.  Expand now.  Plan B for the fun of it.  Make it work in your mind.

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Monday, January 18, 2016

Next NBA Expansion Could be a Safe Bet. And Now.

And I say this all for a few little reasons which are called........ backup plans.

So what?  A team becomes a Vancouver or in a few years a Seattle or some such... .

The name of the backup plan is any number of cities.

The first one that pops into mind is called Chicago.  And it would be a second team for them of course.  Long time yander ago there was the Buffalo Braves became the San Diego Clippers and ended up doubling up Los Angeles.  Happened for another north NY team in Rochester that is now planted in Sacramento.

Not that I think the Kentucky Colonels would fail in the commonwealth or Louisville market with a next expansion (or relocation).  To me, it's the only sure expansion location the NBA pretty much has in the east.  But what if some expansion in the east happened and it wasn't a slam dunk?

What if it didn't work out in the likes of Birmingham, Cincinnati, Tampa or Virginia Beach?

What's a list of backups?  I do realize that some on the list below might be better stacked alongside the above-mentioned medium markets, but I find a little more room in some arena-ready spots
Seattle (likely to counter a Louisville expansion for the West)
NYC
Chicago
Las Vegas*
Kansas City*
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
San Diego, especially if they lose the Chargers and become a one horse town.
Columbus
Austin
Little Rock
Omaha
I guess I can go on and on and say Boise or Albuquerque, but I'll take a break.

*I consider those places on the NBA radar for the NBA right now.  So a four team expansion might look like a KC, LV, Seattle and Louisville.  KC and LV have those shiny new places to play.  Cinci will soon enough.

Even though I see much of the list as lackluster, I think it's a quick shift for the NBA to make in countering a failure.  If Cincinnati flops, give Columbus a call.  A Missouri Showmen brand could be the new old KC Kings brand that played home in two states in the 1970s.

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NYC, Seattle and Chicago are likely sure bets.  More than Knickerbockers, Nets and Bulls could be had.  And for freedom's sake, I'll float a few images.  Picture a Bulldog on a collar.  Chicago Blue Collars.  New York Knights was a toughy.  Drivers?  Thinking about it all is a fun exercise nonetheless. What say you?

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


An NBA Team for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Kansas City? The Arenas will be Ready

Ohio United. Or call it an Ohio Divided Team. Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex  

                                                       Kansas City-Omaha Kings
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Let's say 32 Minor League Teams for NFL

Let's say 32 Minor League (Developmental) Teams for NFL
I have mentioned about a minor league system that Trent Dilfer of ESPN thought about before.  I left the option of the minor league team being able to use the NFL facilities for games, also.

But for this exercise of spreading pro football to more cities, I won't co-locate them with the mothership or same city.
Some already good team names are located within the following blog post:

Imagine some Minor League Football Affiliations and Brands. Part II, In or Outside the Big League City

Realistically, with an NFL Nations Map, these teams would have to be in cities within those very television regional sports networks.  I may choose to ignore this reality.

Affiliates
Boise Blues
Salt Lake City Bikers                
Portland Mountains
Las Vegas Showtime
Reno Truckers
Sacramento Emperors
Inland Empire (Riverside/San Bernadino) Railroad
Albuquerque Ranchers
Santa Fe Express
El Paso Posse

San Antonio Rodeos
Austin Riders
OKC Cattle Drive
Little Rock Bulldozers
Omaha Athletes
Des Moines Iowans
Milwaukee Reindeers'
St. Louis (tee hee) Showmen
Memphis Militia
Louisville (Kentucky Downs)

Jackson, (Mississippi Southern Bells)
Birmingham Bamaman
Charleston, (West Virginia Power)
Columbia, SC (South Carolina Party Crashers)
Newport News Reporters
Albany Highwaymen
Hartford Index
Dayton Pumas
Canton Pittbulls
Monterrey, Mexico Matadors
Witchita Homesteaders
Delaware Daredevils
You know what?  Not St. Louis.  Cheyenne, WY:  Wyoming Ranchers

See any NFL geographic relationships in here?  Do you think affiliation is even important, farm system-wise or geographically?  If the farm system were slot-based and a pool for the entire league you obviously wouldn't need 32 teams and the league formation wouldn't resemble a pro-am for the first handful of years.

Interesting thoughts and questions pop into mind.  Would universities eventually get to the point where athletes with lower GPAs would be discouraged from attending college altogether?   Would this negate a sense of input/output as it so happens to be with affirmative action?

Would the NFL benefit by a more militaristic training approach with concerns to distractions by having the minor league system overseas.  Remember NFL Europe?  Would practice squad members fine tune their skills at the likes of Panama or Brazil in the late Winter/early Spring?

Would there be de facto minor league relationship with the CFL once Canada lands the NFL?

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Friday, January 15, 2016

Out of Bounds, but the Penguins and Hurricanes are up For Sale...

So, yeah, I'm going to play mind games.  For one, because it's Pittsburgh.  I'm not saying one group of mercenarial' thugs is better than another.  But Pitt is dirty.

So....where would I move the Penguins?  I'd split them in two.  And rename them.  And Pittsburgh would get to see the Penguins fly byes.  They be called:
North Coast Penguins of Cleveland and Milwaukee
or Great Lakes

With Great Lakes brand, thoughts could be cast down canal to Indianapolis and Cinci, at least from time to time.

Okay, okay.  None of this is going to happen.  And it's not even anything necessarily close to a wish for me.  But what then with the 'Canes?  I'd do another joint venture way out to the northwest for Portland and Seattle.  Not sure if I'd include that hussy...Las Vegas.  How does this sound?:
West Coast Waves

These are variations of combinations (combo'nations) I have blogged about before.
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Gateway St. Louis Major League Soccer brand

Saint Louis seems to be a consensus destination amoung league coaches.

If any city could use some good football news right now, it's St. Louis.  It may not be their first football of choice, but if concussions take the league down a notch, Cardinal Country can look ahead of its time and more worldly with its newer international brand neighboring up to the Barbeque of KC.  Alongside Carolina and Austin/Central Texas, I find it a most deserving destination.  It looks like I might be saying ditto for Padres country.

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

The Carolina MLS Team for now a Fiction

The Carolina Company sound like a good name?

Or could a team stationed in the Triangle or Charlotte be called the Crown, Charter or Carolina United?  I knew a gent whose son played on a junior travel team based in North Carolina and I've heard the buzz about soccer in the area is big.  Though I might be outdated, I know the college level stuff in those parts is top notch American.

I'd venture to guess that San Antonio and Charlotte probably have the nation's highest buzz at all levels of soccer development.  Sacramento, please forgive my ignorance if I left you out in the cold for that guess.  It's not so much a question of for these areas as it is for win or when.

For the record, I like my idea of a Charlotte-Nashville share better, in the form of Appalachian Bootleggers United.  The trail is there.  Playing in existing stadiums suits me fine or to buy time.  Here's how I get my bearings:  wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_soccer_league_system

I'm fairly confident Carolina will be part of the 30 team league.

Checks out some links and posts below:
                             technicianonline.com/sports/article
                Map of Major League Looks for MLS
Arizona Major League Soccer Franchise should be placed in Tucson
Let's Get a Bootleggers Major League Soccer Brand in the South
The Chivas should've been moved to Las Vegas Part-Time
Grey Coast Ghosts. NHL Expansion Team for Seattle with Portland
Detroit Arsenal Major League Soccer
MLB Exponentially Located -Expansion -Relocation
NHL Exponentially Located -Expansion -Relocation
NBA Exponentially Located -Expansion -Relocation
Florida Panthers can be ridiculous. Co-Locate

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Should the Milwaukee Bucks Relocate? If so, where?

As with many other ideas and spoutings on my blog, I don't care if it's not going to happen.  Like the Rays or Jags.  I don't.  I'm kind of stating the obvious amid the realities.  And so if they get their arena, congrats to all the Brewers fans too.  Packerbackin', too, if that's their thing.


Louisville Bucks have a ring to it?
Nashville Bucks.
I'm a Cinci guy, so I'd go for the Cincinnati Bucks.  I'd open my arms to them with a picture of John Candy on front of the jerseys if that was the deal.  Kansas City has a suitable arena already built as Cinci is doing an adequate renovation to our existing arena.  I'm skipping over Cardinals fans.  And the Rams fans there are surely not buddying up to me.  Could we just share time between Brewers and Reds country and call them the Northland Bucks?  It happened decades ago between Kansas City-Omaha as the Kings.  Wouldn't a Northland Bucks unite a larger swath of apparel sales, and in name, fill in some NBA gaps?  Even in only a name-change, yes.  I know television market agreements make it complicated.  Cable channels are choice though.

Birmingham Bucks or 'Bama Bucks sounds like music to some ears I'm sure.  Baltimore is saturated by D.C., so sorry there.  Buffalo is another ring.  What about the North Country Bucks playing in Montreal and Vancouver, splitting time?  I could see the league landing them in Seattle, Sonicbucks or whatever.  Albuquerque Bucks?  Omaha?  Little Rock?  Hunters just up and becoming NBA fans?

With convention and being the considerate fellow that I am, I'd look heavily into the Louisville landing.

espn.go.com/nba/attendance 

wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_relocated_National_Basketball_Association_teams

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Monday, January 11, 2016

The Time when Alaska gets a Big League Team

Maybe it's a fun thought for Alaskonians.  Alaskans, I meant.

I can only think of one name for it: the Admirals.

I know of the Aces.  They beat my team before to the Kelley Cup or some such.  But "Admirals" commands more respect and admiration, right?  If a world class rink (colliseum) is built on a tanker ship,  I believe that'd be all the rage from Anchorage to Sitka.  I have beckoned West Coast brands before.  Such achievement could be had, docking in Portland and Seattle.  Wouldn't a Northern Lights NHL be an awesome powerbrand?
                                                    Other up-north samples: 

Major League Baseball in Vancouver and Montreal. Make it one team. North Country Lumberjacks

Another Canadian MLB Franchise? Vancouver Athletics and Raiders? And the Norde Force Canadian NFL Team

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My Big League and Minor League Town. THE Queen City

Since my pro football team comprised of SEC love and transwhoopi-lookin' premature gyrating millionaires lost a game with some rightful excuses or not, I have to do something fun and re-remember some of the pro sports and college fun here in Cincinnati.  And by "some", I mean I didn't graduate from Miami, Ohio State or Xavier.  My town arguably has the two most important big dances and so I should be happy.

Baseball
Football
Basketball
Hockey
and Soccer.







In that order:
cincinnati.reds.mlb.com
bengals.com 
www.gobearcats.com              College Ball
cycloneshockey.com since 1990
fccincinnati.com  est 2015
History flashes me the Mighty Ducks and NBA Royals, among others.

Nights like Saturday, made me wonder if I would trade my AFC-NFL team for an American League baseball expansion team.  It's silly (business-wise and expansion vacancy-wise (ie. Charlotte, Montreal, Portland)), but oh well, there's snow outside.  So I'm going to get loosey goosey with an imaginative mind exercise:

I'll abolish or trade away the Bengals for an American League team and fantasy of a Queen City World Series (no, sorry, not you Charlotte).
Queen City Monarchs or just Cincinnati Monarchs?  I'd take the Blue Sox.  Green Sox.   Whatevs.
Ohio Troops?  A stadium on the north side of Cinci?

Oh, in a crazier world, but most befitting solution, could I have another Cinci team and have it in the NFC?  Easier to get fans in the stands for weekly venues.  What to call that team......:  Ohio Barons.  Football Redlegs.  Fightin' Farmers.  Ranchers.   I might have to revisit this.

Well, before any of this, sure I'd take an NHL team in town.  I'd think about an NBA team.  MLS?, sure.  I'd almost take a Cinci minor league team in baseball or something else, even if some are already up the road and down the river like Dayton and Louisville.  Another question comes to mind.  Wouldn't a hometown team with all hometown (like Reds Country players) be awesome?  Represent. Any Ohioans or Kentuckians with thoughts?

Too snobby for the Minor Leagues?

Re-coin the Florence Freedom the Tri-State Freedom Riders
New NBA Team for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville. Tri-State
An NBA Team for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Kansas City? The Arenas will be Ready

Ohio United. Or call it an Ohio Divided Team. Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex   

If ever MINOR League Baseball in Cincinnati 

A good name for the newest Cincinnati team 

Eyeing Major League Soccer. A Cincinnati Goal
Transteleportation of Sports Spectatorship 
Major League Baseball in Vancouver and Montreal

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