Attendance at Big League Games. Some of the World.

A lot of money is required for a baseball and hockey town at the big league level.
 
wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports_attendance_figures
Below is a table from the link.  It's the some top leagues ranked for Attendance.
The NHL edged out the NBA over the season.

Out of the Big Five, you can see the world has a grasp on soccer football.  One day the MLS will make it in there somewhere.

League	Sport	Country	Season	Games	Average attendance	Total attendance
Major League Baseball	Baseball	United States / Canada	2013	2,426	30,514[1]	74,026,895
Nippon Professional Baseball	Baseball	Japan	2013	864	25,517[2]	22,047,491
National Hockey League	Ice hockey	United States / Canada	2011–12	1,230[Note 1]	17,455[3][Note 2]	21,470,155
National Basketball Association	Basketball	United States / Canada	2013–14	1,230	17,408[4]	21,411,543
National Football League	American football	United States	2013	256	68,401[5][Note 3][6][7][8]	17,510,569
Premier League	Association football	England / Wales[Note 4]	2013–14	380	36,657	13,929,810[9]
Bundesliga	Association football	Germany	2013–14	306	43,501[10]	13,311,300
La Liga	Association football	Spain	2013–14	380	27,053	10,280,362[11]
Football League Championship	Association football	England	2013–14	552	16,168	8,989,605[12]

Venezuela

Baseball Ireland?

Perhaps, at first, due to logistical concerns, some overseas teams that could be in Major League Baseball, like a Tokyo or Sydney, could act more as travel teams during more of the regular season.

Looking at those that are tops in attendance, you can't help but think about Japan and Australia as a Way West or Way East Division for world MLB.  A counterbalance to that is a team in London and where else?  Something further out but perhaps feasible like Venezuela?

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#MLBLatinAmerica #MLBEurope #MLBAsia #MLBJapan #MLBAustralia #MLBLondon #MLBDublin #MLBVenezuela

Minor League Hockey: AHL and ECHL Maps

Note some big league brand claims:
Texas Stars (Dallas) of Austin
Iowa Wild (Minnesota)
Albany Devils (New Jersey)
Worcester Sharks (San Jose) of Massachusettes
Providence Bruins (Boston)

Rochester (AHL) and Allen, TX (ECHL) Americans

Some bids I've talked about and have been heard about in NHL media cycles (AND ARE NOT SHOWN ON THE MAPS, which essentially demonstrate Triple A and Double A hockey) is Las Vegas, Portland and Seattle.  The northwest cities have good junior hockey presence, which is essentially Canada's minor league hockey.

Milwaukee and Cleveland are in the next level to the Bigs.  And for a Great Lakes brand, Indy and Cinci are a level below that.

Wide geographic names in the leagues:
Idaho, Utah, Missouri, South Carolina, Iowa, Missouri and Alaska as well as (Double-time:)  Colorado, Florida (represented in the NHL also).  There is the Chicago Wolves alternative to the Blackhawks. Oklahoma City is a name that encapsulates the state enough probably like Kansas City for baseball's Royals.

AHL

ECHL

theahl.com/
wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHL

What do you see for the next NHL expansion?  The locks seem to be Toronto2 and Quebec City.  The American side of the ice?
Seattle and Las Vegas to balance the west?  Why not Portland?  Is it because the Coyote toting floating league wants to the first major league stationed in Vegas?


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Some related posts: 

Too snobby for the Minor Leagues? 

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

 Seattle Clippers?

"Northern Lights" NHL Team a New Expansion Team for Seattle and Portland. Try that on for Size.

A Fast Pitch for Expansion in the Big Five Sports Leagues. Westward Hockey and Soccer.

At Least Two New American NHL Teams in Addition to the Two New Canadian Ones. 

More Canadian NHL teams

NHL Team in Austin and Las Vegas called the West Coast Cattle Drive

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

MLS Expansion. A team called "Upstate". More Upstate New York NHL also? 

Dakota NHL Team 

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

NHL Regional Coverage. For Now. West__ South __ Great Lakes 

East Coast Feds. Imagine this NHL Franchise 

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

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

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

NFL Europe didn't sustain itself but there are plenty of successful peeks into London every year now.

There are plenty of places without pro football.
Some other leagues to fill a pro void of live action:

Here inlies a travel team in a minor league experiment for the big time:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Experimental_Football_League
www.fxfl.com/

It consists of Boston, Brooklyn, Omaha and a traveling team.

Arena Football

A dozen teams man the league at present.  And there has been much of trial and error in history.

www.arenafootball.com/
wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_football   No mention of defunct action like my Cincinnati Rockers.
Found here:  wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arena_Football_League_teams

Albany, Columbus, Hartford, Utah and Sacramento.  On and on.  And redundancy of pro markets.

UFL

wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Football_League

Out of all the big sports, I don't understand these attempts at trying to compete another football league to rival the 32 teams and 100 yards of mainstay American Football as the NFL.  I mean, go for flag football and maybe watch the investment blossom at a time the brute ball is banned.
I think a better shot would be baseball or semi-pro baseball.  Not a good shot, but better.  Like a league of poised replacement players.

Austin, Omaha and Alabama got represented.  Carolina was also repped in their time before the NFL.  There were a lot of redundant markets from New England to Cleveland to L.A. along with many one season wanderers. 

Hot World Wide

www.lfl360.com/featured/breaking-news-lfl-global-announces

Legends Football League (aka Lingerie-FL)
Check out this spread.

The game is getting a foot in from Latin America to island continents.  The beauty of it is universally appreciated.

"Broad Markets".  It might come off as a pun back when people said, "here's looking at you, kid".

United Kingdom, Canada (home to the CFL), Australia and New Zealand.  A lot is in the works, a lot is yet to be seen for world development.  Confidence maintained in the U.S. market as to whether it's sustainable is in the air.

From whatever cultural geography lessons and readings piled into my brainhole over the years, I somehow just know that the Aussies could get a lot of attention in the stands and TV time from flying some games in Tokyo.  I think it could be a great exhibition and become a great thing in Asia.

In all of these countries, perhaps a male semi-pro American style football could be the exhibition instead of the main gate.  A new footing for football.

Rookie of the Year  examiner.com/article/lfl-rookie-of-the-year-dakota-hughes

There has been some head to head competition attempts at the NFL

USFL, UFL:

wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_and_Canadian_football_leagues

World Football of the 1970s.  NFL Europe.  CFL Americana.

Plenty of hut hut hike bikini pics out in cyberspace.
And more ramblings on my blog like Las Vegas prosportsexpansion.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-team-named-paradise-in-nevada.html

Baltimore Stallions (CFL Champs, 1995) and the San Antonio Texans.

http://prosportsexpansion.blogspot.com/2014/12/wnfl-you-thought-correct-womens.html

 Click: WPFL Blog mention

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#NFLExpansion #NewFootballTeams

Jacksonville: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

First off, I want to say that I'm exploring the thought of it.  I'm not pitching it.

Simply said, I'm thinking "too much Florida" already.

Two hockey teams should be dwindled down to one.  Miami's loss.
Two baseball teams should be dwindled down.  Tampa/St. Pete's loss.
It doesn't have to be a loss.  I'm for a Florida Marlins re-brand and the team playing in two places or more.  The Florida Marlins could split time between beautiful ballparks in Jacksonville, Miami and/or Tampa.
Florida Lightning?  Or no Miami NHL altogether.  The climate as it is, I'd prefer Cleveland and Milwaukee over the Sunshine state.  Seattle and Portland are certainly more deserving.

The city of Jacksonville is nothing to balk at and undoubtedly the NFL knew this, with their over 1.3 people in the area with well over 800,000 folks inside the city limits.  That's not a number full time Major League Baseball would deal with though.

You already have the NBA 140 miles away in Orlando and another in-state team hubbed in Miami.

You're close enough to feel the warmth of some sports squads but far enough away to justify you're own if your population was bursting at the seams.  A lot of transplants live in Florida and Jacksonville has a healthy military population in which many individuals and families aren't permanent or rooters for J-ville.  Baseball attendance in your state questions MLB's presence as it stands.

You have a lot anchored down in Jacksonville, but there is still a strong case of flightiness.

The Big Five sports are in Florida with a vengeance since the 90s.  You're getting crowded out by Big League Soccer soon.  As with the NBA, Orlando and Miami will have squads of the world sport.  Your Disney neighbor is kicking off this year, 2015.

The Suns minor league team tote the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville.  Don't you think a higher ticket for an occasional Marlins games would be nice there?  Currently home to the Miami Marlins affiliate, a quarter the amount of MLB seats would still be charming up north on the sunny coast.

Your location within the confines of SEC college football was a big boost for landing your bid of the Jacksonville Jaguars.  Some part time play and re-branding some teams back to the name "Florida" I find as your best bids for the likes of big league baseball, basketball and some soccer or hockey.

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Cincinnati: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

My Queen City only with the Big 2.
Okay, so I'm kind of squared away.  Got the best two to have.
I can sing the first professional sports franchise in America.   The real Red Stockings.
More times than not, I have whatchable hometown football on Saturday and Sunday.
And I have not been totally absent from hockey and basketball.

We've had two minor league hockey squads simultaneously.

We have two very good historical NCAA Division I college teams only miles away from each other.  Oscar Robertson played on Cincinnati's NBA team of long ago.

Without Columbus having a team, I would think on Major League Soccer and the NHL more.  Paul Brown Stadium is an easy facilitator of MLS.

If ever a bid, I'd suggest the location of an NBA or NHL or NBA/NHL or even perhaps an all soccer stadium for Cincinnati to be placed on the north side of town to draw in perhaps even more Ohio suburbanites.

And you think Duke and NC can get ugly......
Do you think the Tar Heels and Blue Devils ten miles apart is a distance?  Try 3 miles.  It's a Crosstown Shootout.  Showdown.  Whatever.  NBA?  Maybe in my lifetime.  Personally don't care much anymore.  Big time requires mercenaries to represent a front for the hometown.  That's how I feel anyway.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosstown_Classic_%28basketball%29

The Big Two

Click links:

Fantasy Expansion Example for Hometown

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

A good name for the newest Cincinnati team.

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

http://putolympicsinmyarea.blogspot.com/ #CincinnatiOlympics

Personally, I'm torn between the choice of having an MLS or NHL team and picking just one.  Ice hockey games in the streets isn't exactly the most practical thing for the youth of every community.  I might have to lean towards soccer.  Wish I would have had some Steve Nash footwork as a youngin' on the hardwood with a foundation on the world's sports field (soccer).

What do you think, Cincinnatians and my regional brethren?

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Columbus Crew C-Bus Cincinnati - A new Major League Soccer arrangement.

Boston Celtics of Cincinnati. #NBA Expansion

The Anaheim Mighty Ducks of Cincinnati. A travel-tag-team

#NHLCincinnati #MLSCincinnatiSoccer #NBACincinnati #MLSCincinnati

What Cities for What New Teams? Big League Sports

Or what "old" teams?  The Raiders and A's could move.

Look at the heart of America's land.  Look at the population centers.

Some big holes are thought to be Portland, Nashville and Charlotte for baseball in the bigs.
NFL Los Angeles for sure.  Toronto.  Places like Portland and Vegas
NBA is debatable.  Seattle and Louisville and other major league towns.
NHL.  We all think north.  Seattle, Portland.
MLS has plenty of spreading to do.  Hopefully to the likes of newbies like Austin and Las Vegas.

What do you foresee?


wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_United_States#mediaviewer/File:US_population_map.png

Not the biggest red blotches, places like Austin, Wichita and Omaha/Lincoln aren't really represented in the Big Five sports.                                    It may be a stretch to say claim of Texas Rangers or Kansas (City) Royals for some towns.

I like the West Coast Clippers (travel) team to play in Seattle, Honolulu and an occasion in Anchorage.  An aircraft carrier in San Diego would be the bomb diggity.  Perhaps a permanent flotilla?  New age stadium excitement.  In 2200 A.D. would we have a floating field in New Orleans.  Think about land-use in the future.

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 Sample below:

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

Scroll down.  Vote.  Don't hesitate to comment.

Brooklyn: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

And I'm only thinking one sport.  Duh nuh nuh nuh - nuh nuh, BASEBALL.

The market could hold it.  New York's two and Boston probably don't want it.  But the borough would!

How does this name sound?:  the Brooklyn Trollies, Trollyhoppers.  The Hopps.

The team could split time with Las Vegas.  Call them the "Jets" even.
I have thought of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Las Vegas before.

But yeah, anyway, Brooklyn.  Build a beauty of a ballpark with 35,000 seats in both locations.  It's an exciting thought.

Badass nostalgia.  Badass Americana.

Brooklyn/Vegas could be a Mean for central division alignment.  Or whatever.
Bump a team west in the American and National leagues.
The Royals or Twins could be west.  5 teams in each division is crisp right now.  I'd hate to be a pain again.  The Reds won the World Series but first they were the National League West Champs.

Another question I have:  Could the Brooklyn Hopps physically play at Jersey Ebbets Field?  Joysey.  Joisey.
 
It takes balls.  Bats and balls instead of Nets.  Mind blown.  Take the trolly.  Represent.

Did I say one sport?  Fibbed.  I wish NY sported the MLS team named the Brooklyn Ballers.

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#MLBBrooklyn

Small Chatter. A Decade and Two Ago. #MLBExpansion and #MLBMontreal.

Ten years ago Canada lost half of it's Major League Baseball.  The Blue Jays have been World Series Champs.  Montreal's Expos never were.  No very French area has the diamond running strong.  Not New Orleans.  Not much of Canada.  As it stands there is only one Minor League farm system affiliate in the land.  Vancouver with Toronto's Blue Jays.

I'm glad D.C. got a team, even with the O-Birds in the area, and at Oh Canada's expense.  With expansion to Phoenix and Tampa late last century, it doesn't seem to be coming in awhile.  Maybe with an Oakland move, there will be relocation, but not to the east.  If Tampa's television market wasn't so big, I bet we would be talking about the Rays leaving for the likes of the land of Charlotte.

Popped open some unopened baseball cards for Christmas.  1993 Upper Deck and Topps.  Off the top of my head, I got a Colorado Rockies Joe Girardi.  Good catcher, and managment guy for among others, the Florida Marlins and Yanks.

espn.com

http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/10/26/tampa-bay-rays-move-montreal

Fun.  Being a bigger pack, there were plenty of new Florida and Colorado cards.  Certainly there were plenty of Expos in the pack.  I wonder when the Expos will, in name, be back.  Sometime before 2050?  Will the next northern baseball be in Vancouver before them?  Charlotte, Nashville and Louisville before Quebec?  Probably in Portland and Las Vegas before then.

More league talent giving room for big league growth?  It would be nice for the next MILB team that's struggling to maybe give Montreal a try.  What are the plans for Olympic Stadium?  It does get occasional MLS and CFL use among other things.  The largest seating in Canada with 65k seats but not cheap.  It seems like a costly beast.  It'll be interesting to see.

thebaseballhaven.mlblogs.com/2014/05/29/is-it-time-for-expansion-in-mlb-major-league-baseball-expansion/

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#MLBFlorida #MLBColorado 

Charlotte: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

It has been pretty much expressed by Major League Baseball that an expansion is unlikely to occur anytime soon.  I would be hoping for the Rays to relocate.  But it seems like a fat chance because Tampa Bay has one of the largest television markets and that's very important to baseball.  Maybe some stadium thing will fall through in baseball-bored- migrated-snowbirdy Florida.  There are likely more NY fans in Tampa or much of the Citrus State anyway.

One would have to expect that the Queen City of the south is not far off from landing Big League Soccer for the Carolinas.  I hear the junior stuff going on down there is robust.

charlottehomeguide.net

MLB and MLS are missing but sure to come.  With  a cup to Carolina hockey's name you will likely have banners hanging from an arena for years to come.  You have shamed the like of Atlanta and showed the like of Lighning. 

As American as apple pie, I have no doubt Carolinians are.  And so the pie in the sky is definitely Major League Baseball someday.

Take a look at some alternative views below:

What sport could be played on Charlotte's infield? Soccer and NASCAR ???

Major League Baseball in Portland and Charlotte

MLB in Columbia, Carolina in general, and Charlotte 

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

Orlando, Portland, Charlotte, Sacramento and Salt Lake City. Who deserves MLB more? NFL?

Some Failed Expansion Bids of the Past

Names for a Portland and Charlotte MLB team ***Work in Progress***

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

In the Women's Professional Football League, the kickoff was a success as the lady teams of barnstorming.

 wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Professional_Football_League

 See also (from the wonderful wikipedia) for a point of reference:

• Independent Women's Football League (IWFL)
• National Women's Football Association
• Women's American Football League (WAFL)
• American Football Women's League (AWFL)
• List of leagues of American football

My hometown:    wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Sizzle 
I think the Dayton Rebellion of the above WPFL sounded good.

americanfootball.ie/craigavon-cowboys-hold-open-tryouts-for-womens-flag-football/

Irish Flag Football Association

Good ladies sports blog:  wfbtalk.wordpress.com/tag/dayton-rebellion/

I have drummed the beat before about the success and some tie-ins with sexualization of womens' sports.
The WNBA is a success.  Likely to follow will be a more robust ladies soccer league, perhaps a cohort of MLS.  My personal favorite would be MLB.  Hockey and football are harder to sexualize, one would think, but there is already the likes of the Bikini Basketball League and the Legends Football League (AKA Lingerie League).  The obviousness of it all as exhibition.  But what about a pre-game or post-game exhibition for the big league big five circuit.  

I love the idea of a ladies team counterpart for each league and each team.  Maybe they're a warm-up act or maybe they're a closer.  Whether WNFL or LFL, the Lady Bengals or the Sister Steelers, the Bangals or the Squealers, padded up all the way for battle Sunday, I'm for it and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Dallas Diamonds

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#MajorLeaguesExpansion Look at Some Possibilities at ProSportsExpansion.blogspot.com for the Big Five Sports

An index link and table of contents is along the right-hand side.  INDEX

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About the "Next Expansion Team" Blog

Your city or your state is found in the index ----> (ctrl F)

The main squeezes:

#MLBCharlotte  #MLBPortland  #MLBNashville  #MLBLasVegas
#MLBMexico  #MLBMonterrey

#NFLPorltand #NFLLasVegas #NFLLouisville #NFLToronto #NFLCanada #NFLNordeForce
#WestCoastRaiders #PortlandRams #NFLLA #NFLLosAngeles

#NBASeattle #NBALouisville
#NBAPittsburgh  #NBACincinnati  #NBAMissouri #NBALasVegas

#NHLSeattle  #NHLPortland
#NHLAustin  #NHLLasVegas

#MLSMinnesotaSoccer  #MLSStLouis  #MLSAustinSoccer  #MLSSanMarcos  #MLSSanAntonio

#MLSPittsburgh  #MLSCincinnati  #MLSDayton  #MLSToledo  #MLSWestCoastGoats #MLSCharlotteSoccer

The main pinches:

#RelocateRaysBaseball #ColocateRaysBaseball
#RelocateAthleticsBaseball #ColocateAthleticsBaseball

#RelocateRamsFootball  #RelocateRaidersNFL  #ColocateRaidersNFL  #RelocateJaguarsNFL
#RelocateClippersNBA #WestCoastClippers

Not exhaustive or all-inclusive

#MLBVancouver #MLBSacramento #MLBSanJose #MLBPortland #MLBSanAntonio  #MLBNewOrleans  #MLBMemphis #MLBIndianapolis  #MLBMontreal  #MLBJacksonville   

#MLBOrlando  #MLBHamptonRoads #MLBVirginiaBeach  #NBAVirginiaBeach #NBARichmond #NBAElPaso  #NHLNorthDakota #NHLSouthDakota  #NHLBoise  #NFLBoise  #NBABoise

#MLBBoise  #MLSBoiseSoccer #NHLCleveland #NHLCincinnati #NHLIndianapolis #NHLMilwaukee  #NBATampa #MLSLouisville #MLBLouisville #NFLLouisville  #MLSLasVegas

#NHLAtlanta  #MLSoccerIndianapolis  #MLSoccerCincinnati  #MLSoccerCleveland  #MLSoccerPittsburgh  #MLSoccerElPaso #NHLOmaha

If you live in the midwest and wouldn't mind having a travel team representing you in the NHL, check out the INDEX and fancy the idea of a Great Lakes team.

West Coast brand, same deal.  Could you have a travel team deemed Midwest, Northland, Southland or East Coast?  Check it out.

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INDEX


Hashtag your pick in the comments below !!!

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

Baseball and football enthusiasts alike are aware of the college world series in Omaha and the football in Lincoln, respectively.  Basketball, ...well, yeah the Cornhusker do have hardwood also.

For those of us not in the know sports-wise and/or geography-wise, Omaha and Lincoln are about 50 miles apart.  With Omaha's 900k people in the area combined with about 300k of Lincoln folks we're talking a million people near the arena in the hockey plains metro.

With college puck, there is more than one team in town.
It's location is 180 miles away from Sioux Falls, South Dakota which is another city in hockey territory.  Folks in the region generally are accustomed to driving. so, I don't know, maybe that's like a hundred miles to we the populated area dwellers.  A halfway stop-off for those from South Dakota that might trek to see a match is Sioux City, Iowa which is a better halfway option than what looks like an equi-distant journey to check out the Minnesota Wilde.  Options, options.  And well, some 200 miles from Omaha is also Kansas City and Iowa's largest city.  The Des Moines journey is closer to Omaha than Twin City bigtime.

I know this is perhaps more of a spiritual stretch than an economically robust option, but it's something to chew on while awaiting the economy of crops and figuring finance:  how the big leagues could be in Nebraska.               wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha%E2%80%93Council_Bluffs_metropolitan_area

Hockey spectatorship is good in Omaha.

CONSIDER A TRAVEL TEAM for now.

prosportsexpansion.blogspot.com/2014/11/cities-on-verge-or-fringe-of-becoming.html

prosportsexpansion.blogspot.com/2014/11/your-home-teams-home-is-camp-regional.html

Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas in Big Five Pro Sports. Idaho to boot.

Dakota NHL Team

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

Midlakes Mustangs NHL Expansion Team

Also check out the INDEX for teams that could theoretically travel to a camp/home game in Omaha like the Heartland Royals.

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And please feel free to contribute your two cents with mine.

Major League Baseball in Vancouver. And the possibility of other Big Leagues.

And one of the first things sports fan think of is the Vancouver Grizzlies, now the team in Memphis.  It appears that you only really cared about your ice mercenaries and Lions CFL football to begin with.

About 0.6 million people inhabit Vancouver city proper with 2.4 million people in the area, much like Cincinnati metro.  And to tell you the truth, had my Queen City of Cincinnati not had the original franchise for the big leagues I'm not so sure it would be looked at these days.  It may just now be a consideration for expansion with the metro population and heavy business presence yet it might fall behind Charlotte because of the lay of the land in terms of northeast/midwest team density.  But it was the first and has a strong baseball lineage.  So what about a baseball lineage for Vancouver?

hellobc.com

Vancouver has been a farm for big leaguers going back about a hundred years.  They're now the only minor league MLB affiliate team in Canada.  The Canadians are triple-A for the Blue Jays.

If ever an expansion team, I'd say a shared travel team with Portland and Las Vegas for a "West Coast" franchise would be great.  If anytime soon, it would just be wonderful if Vancouver had a share of the A's with Oakland, Portland and/or Vegas.  Athletics regular season camp for home games.  Does that sound good?  BC Place looks like it's about in gear.

Ditto for the Raiders on the NFL's West Coast.
And as far as the NBA, you would've been a great share of the West Coast Clippers with the likes of Vegas and Seattle.
         Deep Cove area by Vancouver

flickrhivemind.net/Tags/deepcove/Interesting

Perhaps you could even take the lead over Toronto entering into the NFL and be the Vancouver Rams.  Of course Los Angeles would seem to have a crack at their old franchise but you can say you have the stadium ready, not waiting.  Plus they could just get the Raiders back.  And too bad the Coyotes aren't a bygone brand reborn in the form of the West Coast Wolves to take on your Canucks in places like Anchorage and Seattle/Portland.

Look into a few more big league games each year for Canada's western capital.

You were the Atlanta hockey for the NBA.  Maybe these franchises of American birth can toe tap the water before going full speed ahead. 

For other mentions, click:

Regional Major League Teams. Travel Teams for a New Sustainable Market Expansion Model 

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

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Cuba. Major League Baseball in Havana Someday Sooner?

The city-proper itself has 2.1 million folks and is about 230 water miles away from Miami.  And embargoes look as though they are to ease.

Can the cigar economic boost and American travel alone create enough mogul seating and lavishness for MLB to consider it a viable option to house an expansion team?  As I've mentioned with Las Vegas before, would some warm casinos or Cuban tropical weather draw road game loyalist with another excuse to visit their team? 

I think a modest sized park of 30-35k seats with room to grow it wouldn't be a bad start.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana

www.todoviajes.com

NY Park called Clemente pictured below.

There is some MLB chatter on the net about this, but the business implications are still rough.  Cuba owes some U.S. businesses money as far as some American businesses are concerned.  All in all, one can venture a guess at improvement in the lives of Cubans.  In the years to come we wonder, will big league ball take on franchises in Puerto Rico and Cuba.

bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-12-19/obama-wagers-on-more-cigars-to-win-over-congress-on-cuba-embargo

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Harlem Globetrotters NBA Team

Harlem Globetrotters A-Team or B-Team NBA Travel Team
But what if there were a real Harlem franchise, giving a nod to a lineage circa the 1920s, that played the likes of the Lakers and Knicks?

The Harlem Globetrotters are perhaps the most famous travel team of all time.  Sure, they're showman, but wouldn't it be awesome to have a Harlem squad in the NBA?  The Knicks, Nets and Harlem's Globetrotters?  What if there was an A-Team and a B-Team, kind of like varsity and JV?  A third of a million people live in this neighborhood.  NYC could even have another MLB team with numbers the area touts and I'm not going to lie.  Even baseball in Harlem would be awesome

I would love Diamondtrotters or Harlem Trollyhoppers baseball but the market could definitely hold a team.  Right now of course, the NBA cannot though.  There are plenty of big league cities without a franchise on the hardwood.  Take a look at who has MLB and not NBA.   Hell, even Louisville and Seattle deserve it first.

So what I'm saying is this is certainly a pipe dream.  And too many hits from the pipe can be bad in so many ways.

Click theonion.com

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Nashville: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

Nashville is home to some good ol' American (and arguably Canadian) spectatorship outside of the Grand Ole Opry.  You have NASCAR.  And for the past decades you've had big league claims.  The Titans and now Predators.

The most difficult and probably most coveted sport to land is Major League Baseball.  For many years, you have affiliated with big league franchises in your Triple A ballclub, the Sounds.  And in the history of the major leagues I'm sure Nashville will at some point be a big league baseball team.

Take a look:  bizjournals.com/bizjournals/on-numbers/scott-thomas/2011/08/methodology-for-sports-capacity-study.html  

Good news: tennessean.com/story/money/2014/09/16/nashville-economy-officially-top-b-mark/15725853/

A city as romantic and American as Nashville will get a team.  Your competition is Charlotte with an aesthetic honorable mention of Louisville and New Orleans somewhere down the line.  But for anyone, it looks later than sooner.

An artist's rendering of Nashville's new Sulphur Dell ballpark, set to open in Spring 2015  www.milb.com

milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140127&content_id=67172502&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb

The only inner-state rival is the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies.  Like Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, I doubt you're salivating at that prospect either.  I find it most impressive that Sound Town landed the NHL and I was unaware of a robust NBA attempt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Predators
Nonetheless, it's impressive that in the east you would beat out cities the likes of Cleveland, Indy or Milwaukee for any such northern sport bid, especially after the capital of the south's failure for hockey.  Do some Nashvillians tire of rooting for the Braves?
 
Will some city in the east get big ball soccer before you?  Probably Charlotte.

By the way, Tennessee, I love your Tennessee Smokies team.  Someday, Nashville.  Someday.

In the meantime, think New Orleans Hornets-Oklahoma city ...

I believe the below links are the soonest options for a realistic shot, right now:

Tennessee Pioneers MLB Team Might Play where NFL's Titans Should. Sharing the State. MLB Memphis and Nashville.

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

Major League Baseball in Nashville and New Orleans

Time for more MLB in the South

Southtown Soundhounds MLS Franchise 

Major League Soccer in Nashville, Charlotte and beyond.

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Soccer in Cincinnati #MLSCincinnatiSoccer

Though it's a nice thought, anyone worth their salt would tell you that we're not ready yet for Major League Soccer.

We have a lackluster case in the time-being.  Maybe there will be more upcomings with the rise of our youth.
It is America.  And Cincinnati seems true to claims of being the first truly American city with it being inland and post-Revolutionary; aka the first to not be British or Dutch.

Lackluster's case in point:  A google of the world wide web.  Bottom link with picture of PBS is your best view.  The NFL stadiums in Cincinnati and Cleveland would make for an interesting "Ohio Divided" travel team.  Check out INDEX and see Cincinnati.

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

Ohio Big 5 Experience: Cincinnati to Cleveland and through Columbus. NBA, NHL or MLS in Dayton or Toledo?
Ohio MLS. The C-Bus.

www.google.com/search?q=soccer+in+cincinnati&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=cincinnati+professional+soccer

nationalpremiersoccerleague.com/home/744806.html
wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_soccer_league_system
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Cheetahs
facebook.com/pages/Cincinnati-needs-an-MLS-team/126328554096889
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Riverhawks

http://queencitysportreport.blogspot.com/2012/09/will-mls-ever-call-cincinnati-home.html

queencitydiscovery.blogspot.com/2012/04/major-league-soccer-in-cincinnati.html

queencitydiscovery

I think it would be cuddly cute if we had an MLS team called the Cagers, laying claim to who are the real footballers.  In America.  Allegedly. 

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Houston: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

You are missing the NHL.  And a minor league hockey team for that matter.  Another shut-down.
The AHL flanks most of you in OKC, and in your neighborhood in Austin and San Antonio.
I would flat-out argue that the city of Austin deserves the NHL franchise way before Houston does.  The last thing the league wants now is for another failure reminiscent of Atlanta.

Too hot for ice.

Sorry.  No Big Five for you.

You guys are okay on the indoor sports with the likes of the Hot Rockets.  Hot Rockets are done within two minutes.  Salty or sweet, no need to melt the ice.  I hope knowing that the hockey just vacates is an ice breaker enough for you.

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Alabama NFL. Green Bay is to Milwaukee what this Alabama town could be to Birmingham/Tuscaloosa

So, it's about a hundred mile hike to watch Wisconsin's brand of historic NFL play.

Let's say that the map online tells me that from Birmingham, Alabama to the Alabama town of Reform is 88 miles.  And roughly in between that is the home of the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa.

Economic development.  Segregating a Saturday trip from a Sunday tailgate.  I see more mecca for the state than just Talladega.   A relationship similar to the Milwaukee-Green Bay one and the namesake of Wisconsin.

click:  NFL in Alabama   
prosportsexpansion.blogspot.com/2014/04/give-exercise-try-in-your-mind-what.html



How 'bout them War Elephant Rollers?  Would this be a unifying proposition for football fans and Alabama's ecology?  2 shades of red?

North of 100, 000 fans in one place.

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Milwaukee Bay in the NHL

You don't have the prowess of Green Bay without Milwaukee.  Green Bay Packer Backer Nation.

I like the ring to the name "Milwaukee Bay Backers".

The Milwaukee Admirals skate the area.  The town is with the Big 3.  But what about entry into the Big Four?  I enjoy the name of the " Bay Backers because it lays claim to Michigan's Lake namesake and could even insinuate claim to prime turf in Chicago.  And that sparks rivalry if I have ever heard one.  Or two.

So, if I can't have a share in the future of a Great Lakes named 

travel team, I like this for Milwaukee 

 

The Packers have part-timed in Milwaukee proper

UPDATE     UPDATE     UPDATE          JANUARY 2015

prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/28/milwaukee-has-a-plan-to-build-a-new-arena-could-an-nhl-team-move-in/

.si.com/nhl/2015/01/27/nhl-expansion-seattle-milwaukee-rangers-islanders-rivalry

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

NHL Regional Coverage. For Now. West__ South __ Great Lakes 

Some NHL Expansion Talk

Minor League Soccer. A Travel Team Representing Two Towns or more.