Big League Sports. Bringing Austin, Las Vegas and Louisville into the Fold

This is a small rambling about bringing some cities without...into the mix.

I'm thinking hockey or soccer for the Sin City and Austin area and the NBA for Louisville.
Or maybe soccer for Louisville too.  Kentucky Downs has a ring to it for NFL love.  But right now, apparently L-town has to be Bengals country.

It's looking more and more like hockey is going to bring Las Vegas into the bigger show on the regular.
But as far as ambiance, I see Louisville for the NBA and Austin for the NHL.  There is some proximity to Houston for the capital of Texas, but anybody with boots on the ground in Texas knows that Austin is a better fit for ice hockey.  Houston would get extra saturated in the sports market with ice melt; not wet with excitement or nipply from the chill.

Another newbie to consider would be Little Rock.  And obviously SEC country touts football with a passionate exhale.  Not a newbie to the big time thanks to the roundball, OKC would make a great alliterate team of the Oilers reincarnate.

What say you about potential big league newbies?

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samples:

Major League Sports Franchise in Little Rock

Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL

Oklahoma City: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

Mid-American Cities that should Get More Pro Teams. And Austin

Eastern Cities That Get More Pro Teams. And Louisville.

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

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

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

  

   

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Texas Country Cavalry. A Team with Two Stadiums. A two-town Texas team

Or more of Texas represented in the like of the world's pastime.

El Paso in west Texas, San Marcos for San Antonio/Austin region-plex (kinda' like metroplex) in central Texas around Hill Country. -Those would be good sites for stadiums.

A Hill Country and West Texas brand of baseball.  What better mobile name than that of Cavalry to compete with the Rangers.  Or is this an MLS franchise, once a month in the middle, once per month in El Paso?
Imagine, ....the Lone Star Ballyards.  Central.  And West.
It would be sweet as sunshine wouldn't it?

Texas Country Cavalry

The Texas Train ?  Or for soccer, Texas Divided or Texas Express

Oh my lord.  Have mercy.

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Southwest Express share with Alburquerque in baseball or soccer with Arizona? Austin with Las Vegas for hockey?  click: Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL

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

Arizona Major League Soccer Franchise should be placed in Tucson

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The Czar of Sports and Professional Sports Expansion. Maybe a Ridiculous Dictator, 2015

WHAT I WOULD DO OFF THE BAT

It may only be an expansion of territory or fan base, but an expansion nonetheless.  Though maybe not practical at this time, I'm doing it anyway in Imaginationland.  So here's how I would start to shake it up, from building in central Texas and west central Alabama to sharing the Clippers in Seattle and Southern California.
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San Marcos, Texas

A major sports complex is constructed in San Marcos.  The Central Texas Sports World.
-A wonderful recreational commute for residents of Austin and San Antonio to San Marcos, which is about 30 miles for each respective area, this is where I'm putting an NFL, MLS, NHL and MLB stadium.
The Texas Rangers play some time there.  An expansion (or relocated/rebranded) hockey team.  Let's go with the NHL Panthers vacating Miami to become the Texas Stampede.  An expansion MLS club (Texas Divided) and a place for Houston to play once in awhile for now.  I would consider sharing the Austin or central Texas brand with Las Vegas.

#MLBExpansion     #NHLExpansion     #NFLExpansion     #MLSExpansion     #NHLRelocation     #NHLAustin

Here are some franchises on the block:
NHL - Predators, Coyotes, Panthers are getting relocated or moved (disbanded or whatever)
MLB- The West Coast Athletics are playing elsewhere in addition to Oakland, which is a short drive to Giantslands
NBA- Grizzlies may just become the Southland Grizzlies with Louisville.  Clippers in Seattle also.
NFL-Jaguars
MLS-Western Stampede  A series of games played in Louisville, Austin and Las Vegas.  New stadiums or existing structures, whatever.

Florida Marlins

Tampa gets baseball but only part time under the Florida Marlins franchise

South Bay Rays and nicknamed Southern Run Rays.  Or should I consider them to be the Tampa Bay-Monterrey Rays for a part-time Mexican tag team like I have in previous blog posts?

#MLBExpansion

Canada

The Norde Force in NFL sharing time throughout CFL facilities.  Best ratings for television in the league.

California Angels

Sacramento is your northern Cali stay.

#MLBExpansion

West Coast Raiders
Los Angeles Rams are back.  Sorry, St. Louis.

West Coast Athletics and the West Coast Raiders

Las Vegas
Portland

You're welcome.

It's now the West Coast Clippers with time in Seattle.

Reform, Alabama

A stadium is built for the Southern Belles in the NFL.  A tailgaters pilgrimage and I shut my mouth.  Louisville is the second site for the tag team.  If you build it ... .

The Jaguars are no more.  The Norde Force camps throughout CFL Canadian stadiums spreading the love out.  Speaking of Canada...

The NHL sees some changes as well.

Southland Predators play in Atlanta, also.
The Panthers are no more.  The West Coast Cattle Drive play in Austin and Las Vegas.
The Western Fleet are an expansion to Portland and Seattle with time afloat to the likes of Honolulu and Anchorage.  A special ship stadium is built - a ten thousand seat floating arena.

Thoughts?

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NHL Canadian Cities article. A vote for New Team in Nova Scotia

alongtheboards.com/2015/08/4-canadian-cities-ready-nhl-team

Street hockey in Halifax

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How many "Home" Games could be played in a Regional Model for Sports Teams? Branding or Camping them

I believe the Oakland Athletics could become the West Coast Athletics co-located in Las Vegas.  For a team to play in two places, what would be the breakdown of how many home games are where?

The Footballs:
Let's say that the NFL has 20 games total (incl. preseason).
34 for Major League Soccer, so split up it's 17 home games

You have about 40 home games for hockey and basketball, and 80 for MLB

            Camping them
MLB     80
NBA      40
NHL      40

Let's say the Oakland A's play 40 home games in Las Vegas and 40 in Oakland, Sacramento or Portland.
The West Coast Clippers play 20 games in Seattle.
The West Coast Coyotes play 20 games in Portland.

            Branding them
MLS   17 
NFL    8          (10 incl. preseason shows)

By camping (sharing) a few locations for the team name there is more of a regional love in place.

By branding bigger and wider, there is a regional love in name.

This means something like the West Coast Raiders playing either in Oakland, Portland and Las Vegas, with maybe preseason games in all of the aforementioned locations.
West Coast FC doing Las Vegas and Los Angeles.   


Just a few examples for ya'.

Arizona Major League Soccer Franchise should be placed in Tucson
Brooklyn: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

Some is better than none?  Huddle up and think about it.

East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL
Arguably Places Where the Big Leagues Need to Be Next
Canada's Populated Places to Consider in Pro Sports Expansion
Monterrey Rays. Or Sur Toros? MLB in Mexico

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4 Base MLB Team?

Theme:  a team plays in more than one place called home.

Would cities erect something like a 20,000 seat ballpark to accommodate and host part-time Major League Baseball during regular season play for something of a home town regional name?

Las Vegas, Portland, Sacramento and Salt Lake City for West Coast
Indianapolis, Columbus, Charlotte and Buffalo for Eastland
Nashville, New Orleans, Birmingham, and Jacksonville for Southland
North Country for Vancouver, Montreal and party atmospheres in between.

Over time, cities could fall-off, be added on or break away.
What do you think?

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Samples of other sports with many games during the season:

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

Without the NBA  

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

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The Great Lakes Fleet Force. An NHL Club for Cleveland, Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Cincinnati

I envision Milwaukee and Cleveland as the primary targets of such a franchise, aesthetically as well as geographically, but also in the region I could see Indy and Cinci garnering great support, especially with absence making the heart grow fonder for a home-stand.

A four-city NHL team?  The Great Lakes Fleet of Cleveland and Milwaukee...and force of Indy and Cinci .... and all points in between for the region.

What do you think?  I bet it's better to have some than without, right?  Or is it too polygamisty?

Let's disband the Panthers or Coyotes to free up room for this innovation.

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                                                                                     Blustery Wisconsin and Indiana without the NHL

 Some blog samples:
East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL
Ohio United. Or call it an Ohio Divided Team. Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex  

Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL 

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

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

Could the Cleveland Indians be Gerrymandered to Become the Ohio Tribe? MLB Columbus

Ohio's Miami Redskins became the Redhawks.

Maybe one day the Washington Redskins will become something else like Warriors (and without a Native American effigy).  And other teams like the Braves, Blackhawks, Chiefs and yadda yadda yadda.  Well, the Seminoles are a college mascot and they haven't even done it yet.

But anyway ... .

In line with my scheme of more than one home location, Columbus could tag along with Cleveland to host its fan base.  And yes, ....the irony of a teepee in a place named after Christ-offer Columbus.


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    Some samples:
Ohio United. Or call it an Ohio Divided Team. Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex  
Columbus Crew C-Bus Cincinnati - A new Major League Soccer arrangement. MLS Expansion in general
East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL

Coastal Kings Baseball Team for Charlotte and Portland. A Two-Place Team in the MLB. Like Las Vegas

Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL 

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

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

I'm no precise science official on the matter, though maybe one day I'll be some kind of aficionado.  And neither is the next link, but it has some good points.  Numbers 7,6 and 5 (Cinci, Pittsburgh and KC) all have NBA worthy nods of arenas.

thesportster.com/basketball/top-10-cities-the-nba-should-consider-for-expansion-or-re-location/

wlwt.com/news/concept-for-us-bank-arena-renovations-released/34395276

Pictured: Area where the old Riverfront Stadium and Riverfront Coliseum were.

NBA and (part-time) NHL for Cincinnati in the future?

I think a Tri-State or Tri-City team of some sort works best with basketball.  A Tag-travel-team is a sure way to foot or toe-dip into markets that may be questionable.  A basketball UC and Xavier loving community like Cinci could do it, but three locations of pro-basketball love sharing said love would be a sure bet to me.

Look at the old Kansas City-Omaha Kings who played in Nebraska and Missouri (also St. Louis) after they were the Cincinnati Royals and before they became the Sacramento Kings.  Could such a schematic be in the NBA's future again to spread the love of many major-league-yet-NBA-absent cities?


Also check out blogerations where I've talked about the Clippers also playing in Seattle as the West Coast Clippers.

Samples:

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

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


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The Idea of Retraction in Claim. The Angels and Marlins of California and Florida

Yeah, instead of the opposite of expansion, "contraction", I used the word retraction to think of those who may have felt violated.  If I grew up in Barstow in 1989 and the Angels were my team, I might feel weird about calling them Anaheim's Angels.

So here's some blabbing I have to do:  The California Angels played at the same time as the teams in San Diego, LA, San Fran and Oakland.  Perhaps there is too much bandwagon switching and fan viewership between the brands and so they retracted to be deemed Greater LA Anaheim.  Or...just that's the deal that got some spotlight for East LA.

The coming of Tampa Bay Devil Rays shrunk the Marlins from Florida to just Miami.  And as far as seats in both places, they're butthurt.

It should be the California Angels and Florida Marlins again. I mean, the Panthers in hockey didn't.... oh well.. .  The Angels could play in two places.  Try Sacramento.  Anaheim baseball could expand further out than that, to the likes of Portland or Las Vegas by calling themselves the West Coast Angels.  And the Marlins could play at St. Pete, freeing up the Rays to play elsewhere.  I like a share between Charlotte and Nashville.  How about the Southland Rays?  I like the idea of some sharing, especially when it's already justified in name.  The Bronx Bombers could do some time as the Buffalo Bombers.  The Rangers could spend time near Austin or San Antonio.

Don't you think Southland Rays apparel would fetch droves and droves more money across the south?  An alternative to vacating Tampa, the Rays could toe-tap the Charlotte market under this brand change and I've also thought bigger things for the old Tampa Bay Devil Rays going internationally by sharing with Mexico as the Tampa-Monterrey Rays.

We need something bolder and better for the strugglers in Oakland and Tampa.  And Glendale, Arizona and the Panthers of Florida.  There's a couple good thoughts for each league of sports.  Check out more of them in the blog, like the West Coast Clippers.

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News Blurbs: MLB China Market Expansion, Reno Soccer and NHL Conference Alignment Issue with LV & QC

Link: MLB working in China






http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/25250728/nhl-expansion-process-faces-some-geographical-challenges



si.com/nhl/2015/07/27/nhl-expansion-teams-quebec-city-las-vegas-conference-alignment

I have a solution (or rather an idea) to this NHL geography conundrum.

Las Vegas tag teaming with Indianapolis as the Rollers could make for a beast of the east, fictional hockey central, or west.  A coastal brand Whalers of Seattle, Portland or Hartford is a thought.

USL for Nevada:  kolotv.com/home/headlines/Report-Reno-Getting-USL-Soccer-Franchise-318712271.html




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Quebec City Deserves the Next NHL Team. And Toronto Too

Because, quite plainly....Canada.  And hockey fervor in Canada is probably proportionately bigger than football or baseball is to the hearts of Americans, if you'd like to have that painted into some picture.

And I ring a vote for Hamilton/Toronto2, though for Toronto Dos I'd prefer a broader hug by the franchise, calling it something "Ontario" (see link below majestic QC pic).

But yeah,...where's the growth money?  That's what it boils down to for the league.

theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/nhl-expansion-why-canada-is-always-the-last-draft-choice

sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-_________--eager-to-avoid--expansion-to-canada-143531785.html

Ontario Gold Horseman NHL Expansion Team should be Toronto's team two too

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The Reality is Business Isn't Ripe for a lot of NHL Team Growth in American Markets yet but I have a Solution

Combine cities that are on the fence for a regional brand playing their home games in more than one city.

Seattle + Portland   WEST COAST

street hockey pic from tbo.com

Milwaukee + Cleveland  NORTHCOAST OR GREAT LAKES

Nashville + Atlanta Predators  SOUTHLAND

Miami + Austin Panthers  SOUTH LAKES

Las Vegas + Salt Lake City  WESTERN

Plainly, let's say there are 40 home games a year.  Simple math would have it that if home games had to be split between two places, there would be 20 camp games at each place.

What are some good backup and exhibition cities to wrap up the brand?
West Coast:  Las Vegas, Boise or SLC
Great Lakes:  Cincinnati (Dayton), Indianapolis
South Lakes:  Jacksonville or Little Rock
Southland:  Richmond?  Louisville



What would be some good names to consider for these regional franchise tag teams?

Snow Birds?

Armada

Express

Roadwarriors

Band

Eagles

Fisherman

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Piece a Commissioner Manfred List Together for Expansion Team Cities. But a Better Way Forward

San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Portland, Charlotte, Montreal, Las Vegas, northern New Jersey and Mexico City or Monterrey, Mexico

So what are some combos we can make out of these?

Geographically, SA and OKC neatly fit in a vision.
Mexican cities.  
Montreal, NJ and Charlotte are east.
Portland and Las Vegas are west.

Could these combinations be a four team expansion?
Or 2 relocation and 2 expansion teams?

Or, as is an unconventional drum-beat on my blog, an intermix of co-locating and rebranding a thought for saving and expanding to exponentially more MLB cities.  More places were (at least mentally) incorporated when the Marlins were named Florida and the Angels were deemed California.  The Boston-area housed Patriots for decades have laid claim from Maine to a short drive from NY by being named New England.  Golden State, a rebranded franchise around the same time as conceptualizing a broader Boston base brand in name, certainly expanded their California following of San Fran/Oakland, which also occurred in the 1970s.

A few broader naming thoughts for the combos listed above:

San Antonio-Austin (San Marcos) area spot combined with Oklahoma City sounds good as "Midland".

Portland and Sin City have "West Coast" location and justification.

Something "East Coast" sounds neat.

Sur Toros?  It's Spanish for "South Bulls".  If we call it "Mexico"  it sounds too Pan-Am competitive and nationalistic.  If Canada wrapped itself up in more baseball, having a Norde Force or North Country Lumberjack squad housed/camped for home games in Vancouver as well as Montreal....that's some big time Canadian television watching.  And it spreads the "home" game calendar out in the spirit of "absence makes the heart grow fonder" for attendees on the west or east side of Canada.

The Rays could relocate or share and relocate.  I've blogged before about even having the Tampa Bay-Monterrey Rays.  But let's say that Oakland and Tampa are preserved by sharing in a West Coast or East Coast name and expanding to the likes of Charlotte, Las Vegas and Portland; cities which teeter on business certainty, but could be slam dunks as a share.

Would the powers that be and savvy businessmen consider the next expansion or relocation as a co-location in the spirit of a booming powerbrand?

I think so.  Something "West Coast" or "Eastland" gives a more inclusive people for a whole lot of people and they'd gladly take on more viewership and apparel.  To say nothing of a few vacation road trips to one or both of their home camps to attend a game.

  
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It's about time for Central Texas to be Strongly lumped in with Portland and Charlotte in the Major League Conversation

Charlotte and Portland catch the eye of baseball and map people because of their populations and elbow room from existing teams logos.  And their states don't have one MLB, let alone two MLB teams.

Portland is spaced between Mariners and Giants/A's lands.
Charlotte is a shot below the Nationals/Orioles and maybe begrudgingly annexed for Braves loyalties.  What should be emphasized for Braves Country is that it's a monopoly of the South.  And that just seems unAmerican.  Even the Yankees have to see the Mets in their existence. 

HERE'S HOW

As an alternative to the painful parameters of expansion (for things like franchise encroachment/television rights and more business realities like population with robust economy for consideration) I, like many, have talked about relocation.  Because of the proximity of stadium struggling franchises like the Athletics and Rays, I say geographically, there are your moves.  I think I've even done better than that.

I have proposed markets expanding locations, thereby adding more Major League cities into the mix, as well as expanding their team territory altogether (in which I've called a powerbrand).  Portland plus Las Vegas for one team sharing those cities would be closer to be a powerbrand like the Yankees in terms of nation and number$.  If you called such a team the West Coast Athletics playing in places like Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Portland, Las Vegas,...and even with some stretched justifications of the imagination like Salt Lake City or Boise, your brand is used by incorporating things named "West" like even Albuquerque, which is in another state with any big league brand in any sport.  Also imagine Charlotte sharing the Rays with places like Nashville, Louisville or New Orleans.  Brand it something "Eastland" and cities like Indianapolis or Columbus enter the talk of part time possibility.  I'm not proposing that we go that far at this time but imagine this much.

Imagine the Rays and A's partially relocate (co-locate) in Charlotte and Las Vegas, respectively.  And two more teams come into the league, expanding it for a total of 32 teams and 4 or more major league cities of baseball, all told.  I'd even like to see Nashville and Charlotte share with Tampa becoming part of the born again Florida Marlins butt-hurt seat franchise where absence could possibly make the heart grow fonder for the tag team cities of east and west coast Florida.

It could be the West Coast Athletics and the East Coast Rays.  A Montreal-Vancouver team could enter the league, and it could be rationed into any division that pleases the league and its logistics, even a central division justified as an average (in-between) where they locate.  Let's call them the North Country Lumberjacks.  That could even be a Portland shared brand of a triple team with West Coast being a Sacramento-Las Vegas A's in existence.

bigleagueweekend.com

Combining for power:  http://www.milb.com/content________Texas

And the 32nd team could easily be a market encroaching the Rangers and Stros' "turf".  It would be a team for the stretches of San Antonio and Austin in central Texas hill country.  Think maybe "Banditos" baseball

click:

Sing it! Major League Baseball for San Antonio-Austin

Then maybe the Rangers could do more in El Paso to wrap the state in warm baseball.  What would be a family name for something like a Bandits brand?  The San Antonio-Austin Bandits?  Central Texas Tornados?  Old West Wranglers.  Lone Star Oilers.  Think on that for awhile.


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Sing it! Major League Baseball for San Antonio-Austin

woai.com/articles/woai-local-news______wolff-says-mlb-could-work

bigleagueweekend.com/san-antonio-big-league-weekend.html

I have blabbed about it before:  A central Texas site being a compromise to Austin and San Antonio, (click: San Marcos, Texas Should Be the Second Site For Texas Teams) especially for more weekly of a venue. 
It would've been a no-brainer location for MLS.

I've also talked about the Texas Rangers having something in the ballpark of 20 games in a nice 20-35k seat ball yard in San Marcos.  The name is already in place.

Sound off San Antonio, Austin and San Marcos!  Where's a good site?

clarewoodapts.com

Alamodome

johnrrogers.com Austin

Would something like another team in Dallas free up the Rangers from Arlington to play additionally in another place like El Paso from time to time:  wfaa.com/story/sports/mlb/rangers/2015/07/15/mlb-expansion-dallas-texas-rangers


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I propose that the Chattanooga Lookouts Swap their Name for Marines for the Remainder of the Year

The Chattanooga Marines

I know I know.  I'm not their biggest fan either.  I'm a touch more Go Army.  I hate them like a brother.  I love them like a brother.  Same goes for my neighbors.  Americans.

Okay, so maybe the franchise doesn't deserve such an honor.  Maybe it seems weird to get "beat" or "lose" some games and carry the title of Marine.

But if every game had uniformed Marines at the handshake line, for both competing teams to swap handshakes and back-slaps with, well, I think it tips a hat to Chattanooga USA.


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Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey and More. A Future in Big Five Sports for North America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropolitan_areas_by_population

Looking at the Top 20 on the list of North American metro area populations, you can glance these international cities.

450 and 280 miles separate Monterrey and Guadalajara from Mexico City, respectively.  Guatemala City has around 4 million inhabitants and is 630 miles from the biggest city in Mexico and the continent.  Guatemala's population hub is over 1600 miles from Houston.
That screams logistics.  It's 2800 miles from LA to NYC.


Montreal barely misses the top 20 cut for people.

Could you imagine a team called the Fleet or Armada?  It could be a combination of any number of these cites in a few sports.  Think of a combined baseball club including Puerto Rico or Cuba with some of the mentioned cities.  Would such an essentially representative Latino travel club do well?  I imagine the television market that could include players playing for them like Felix Hernandez or Mike Trout along with some native -borns, would be a passionate follow for these lands, as it is for mercenaries of every big league market.  It could be a robust collaboration.



Poverty and logistical concerns have kept North American expansion at bay.  Passion also has, as can be argued with the likes of Vancouver and Montreal, not to say of Atlanta with hockey and Cincinnati with basketball going back a number of years and decades.

Will the international Latino masses be recognized by MLS and MLB soon?  MLS seems to be in a position more apt for risks.  Stadiums are in place all over.  Or will the likes of Portland and Charlotte be given a nod first by MLB?  I've talked about it in my blog before about a franchise part-timing it in Monterrey, since logistically it's closer to the likes of butt-hurt seats like Tampa.

Can you think of any interesting city combinations teaming up as a powerbrand in any of the Big Five sports?


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Some other chatter of islands and Canada: 
Puerto Rico MLB Team. East Coast

Canada's Populated Places to Consider in Pro Sports Expansion 

Monterrey Rays. Or Sur Toros? MLB in Mexico

Not mentioning my articles on a Norde Force, Midlakes Mustangs or North Country for a collaborative regional team name.

 

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Think Expansion is Expensive?

seattletimes.com/sports/hockey/nhl-expansion-application-fee-will-be-10-million/

10 million dollaruskis just to fill out the paperwork to be considered.  Yeah.

Las Vegas and Quebec City did it: cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/25246007/las-vegas-quebec-city-groups-submit-applications-for-nhl-expansion

$2 million of which in nonrefundable.
yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/area-nhl-groups-lacked-financial-muscle-to-apply/article_5c3e824c-303e-11e5-b6ee-1f2eecdd75f5.html

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Boring. Atlanta United Football Club Unveiled it's Logo. And Same Ol' Same Ol'

mlssoccer.com/news/article/2015/07/07/mls-expansion-team-atlanta-united-fc-unveil-logo

I don't even want to show a footballing soccer team in the capital of the south.  I would prefer showing Charlotte first, as the anchor tennant 'round ol' dixie.

Can there not be some wonderful regional powerbrand to take foot in the region,.....any region?

I want to see a travel tag team - A team that calls multiple cities home.

Click on the above link to see the Atlanta logo.  I don't even want to show it.  It makes me yawn.  Perhaps a Toronto2 or Las Vegas one will make me yawn the same.

Shouldn't Charlotte and Nashville team up for a Bootleggers brand?  I've blogblabbed about it before.

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NYC Jersey had the open air Super Bowl. Who should be on deck and in the hole?

Cincinnati?  Cleveland?  Seattle?  Boston'ish?


Did you know that over half of the Super Bowls have been played in just 3 cities?  New Orleans, Miami and Los Angeles.
wikipedia.org_____Super_Bowl

In 2014 it was played on NYC's field and the weather ended up being good.  But hey, either way, this is football.  It's Super, not the Pro Bowl!  Miracles happen in the weather also.  If the big show is played outside of a dome are we afraid of a sharknado or something?

No love for the Pitt, Kansas City or Colorado?

Let's get one Green Bay one in in somebody's lifetime!!!

Land of Giants.  49 degree F kickoff was 3rd coldest Super Bowl of all time.  Loyaltylobby.com pic

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