Las Vegas Raiders has come True

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Just had the Warriors jump step to San Fran.  I guess it's good they're still Golden State.
I mean, dayamn!!!  What next?  The A's?!

Didn't even give a chance for the ice to freeze over... .

Nifty Names. A Local Twist

wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_Sound_Tigers

Look at some of these.

I just wanna' call the list OG. Teams of today and ago...

I say this with a tone for pride and not as a disparaging snipe:  local yockle unique names.

Can we get a Barn Donkeys next expansion?  ..for Portland, Charlotte?

                     So many.  Google them.
The Sound Tigers of Bridgeport hockey
Iron Pigs
Batavia Muckdogs
Hartford Yard Goats
Altoona Curve
Bowling Green Hot Rods
Mobile BayBears
Modesto Nuts
Richmond Flying Squirrels

Montgomery Biscuits.  Wow.  Love.
Akron RubberDucks
Biloxi Shuckers
Savannah Sand Gnats
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers
The New Orleans Zephyrs renamed their AAA squad (Marlins) the Baby Cakes.  Gold.

Hot off the press:

San Diego MLS naming

Hockey and Hoops near Hampton Roads?

One awesome arena could lure in two big league brands 200 miles south of our nation's capital.

Why not build the best arena in the world for the hook that would seduce the NBA and NHL?

What kind of amenities would be offered up like none other?


See: 

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

How bad ass does this sound?:  East Coast Battle Group
Hampton Hooplah?  Norfolk Vikings?
Eastern Seaboards, Virginia Beach Cruisers, Newport Express, Virginia Admirals, Generals

I demand these. NOW for the Big Five

And I will insist to be free of declaring pairings.

The NBA in Louisville.
Seattle, honestly I don't care.

And really, I'm not demanding a dang fatootin' thing.

The NHL in Portland/Seattle.  Arizona?!  Las Vegas?!  Panther-sized yawn, yo.

More important things to worry about, right?

Big League baseball.  I really don't care.  I'll likely live to see that Portland and Charlotte birth.
Montreal?  Two schits.  I wonder if the likes of Monterrey on the other side of the creek will see MLB regularly before we round the next century.

NFL:  yeah, I don't care about the Colts and I do give a hoot about Bengaldom, but if you put a Kentucky Downs team in Louisville the grumblings of the aforementioned and Titanland would be nifty.

MLS:  you're doing your thing.  The American Soccer landscape is slippery.  My native land of the Queen City flaunted that fact to you.  That list of 10 or so will surely be someday.   San Diego, St Louis and Cinci shifted into the argument with lightning speed, despite their proximity to other markets.  It helps that MLS has expressed a stronger desire for rivalries knocking up against each other.

The Next Second Team City

Is it Dallas?  Is it Chicago?

What about Toronto in the NHL?

A second NBA team in Chi-town?

Are the leagues going to expand their footprint before doing such a thing anymore?
....Well, Los Angeles, the second largest market, having had no NFL teams for 20 years, got two more.  The Rams didn't move to Portland or the Chargers didn't move to Toronto, now did they?

I don't think so, but....
If so anyway:
     NBA:  Chicagoland Flights
NFL:  Chicagoland Troops
     MLB:  New England Colonials (Boston)
MLS:  Chicago Blue ....Chippers
     NHL:  West Coast Ghosts (San Fran)
                             Spitballin'
But it's really, and rightfully going to be Toronto.



Just some thoughts:  Boston and Chicago rule their states in a clear monopoly.  There's argument in Texas, Pennsylvania and California for their megacities.  So, before doubled up Dallas for another team, there'd be the San Antonio area.

What cities are your choices for seconds?  Sizeable areas (including some twin towns) are the Bay, D.C./Baltimore, Philadelphia and Dallas.  A Philly American League and Dallas National League squad in the future?  Not far from each other is an area in central Texas comprised of Austin and San Antonio.  Austin will get NHL before Houston, right?  San Marcos is a small city in between the two.  Is some kind of football team a good place to tailgate there as a weekly venue?
So much to talk about.

wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas

Will there be a Sims Baseball.....if not MLB The Show Video Game Expansion Option ???

MLB The Show by Brian Mazique contributing for Forbes:
forbes.com/sites/brianmazique/2017/03/07/mlb-the-show-17-franchise-mode-is-almost-perfect
[What's Still Missing]
There's still no option to relocate teams or to add expansion teams. NBA 2K and Madden have added one or both of the options, but The Show has yet to take that step. Some may be reading this and thinking: "the game isn't even out yet, how can you be critiquing a mode?"
It's simple. It's safe to say those features won't be included in this year's game because if they were, it would have been revealed at this point. As we sit just three weeks away from launch, I assure you relocation or expansion will not be in MLB The Show 17.
Some fans are pure traditionalists. They only want to play with the real major league baseball teams, but a large portion of us would love the option to locate and create expansion teams with the same create-a-team suite used in Diamond Dynasty.     - - -

Wouldn't a Sims future MLB feature addition be FANtastic?  Imagine if cities like Indianapolis, Memphis, New Orleans, Nashville, Louisville, Charlotte, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Montreal and Portland ..or even Honolulu had a way to lego up their stadium choices.  ... I mean, well, you know, the fans thereof?

The gamers could solicit free architectural graphics from firms wanting their name to get out there even bigger and better.....from any number of cities, to include Mexico City, Monterrey, Berlin or London.  At least let fans pick their favorite parts of existing ball parks and play puzzle Picasso with their wishes.
Would ya' name it the Pines of Portland?

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NBA: When Cincinnati?

Which really is asking..... which cities will come before Cinci?

Louisville is looking consensus.  Kentucky's first big league brand in the modern era.

Cincinnatian NBA fans should be nervous about these two city names:  St. Louis and Kansas City.
My money is on KC and their newer arena.

When bigger league volleyball? ...in the blog

And quite plainly, this should be said to the likes of Cinci, Pittsburgh and Baltimore:  

Missouri is without the NBA.  So, KC or St. Louis?

Because of alignment, out for the Western Conference, the likes of Seattle, San Diego and Las Vegas are of little concern for this argument.

Cinci, Pitt and KC are NBA ready, seat-wise.  This, downtown Cincinnati

Awesome leagues yet to be seen

I have posts dedicated to these ideas going a little while back, but these are the leagues I want to see.

And in the next 50 years, for the big five leagues, we could see a minor league farm team dedicated to each team.  I'd also love some kind of lady counterpart.    

Minor League Football (stop mocking the College in college football)

Not enough junk in the trunk // too compact

Pacific Pro League is starting 2018.  NFL Europe wasn't so very hot.  I think a ladies league of flag football would be nifty enough.  I'd prefer those gals in track suits more so than sporting lingerie in a big stadium super setting.

The WNBA is on track.  Wouldn't you say?

Women's Major League Baseball                
              corresponding to their MLB brother clubs

Women's Major League Soccer

Women's Club Hockey teams corresponding to NHL.   And when volleyball explodes........

Portland MLB. Blue Socks? Oaks? the Woods?

Oaks

Woods

Pioneers

Lumber

Beavers?

Many o' time they have been reborn the Beavers in minor league ball.

Rockies affiliate, briefly.

Oregon Mountaineers
Pilots were in Seattle before they were Mariners
       

For now, you have your short-season A-ball team in the suburbs.

Would you share the West Coast Angels?

What about Two NHL teams for Canada's Pop. Three ... Plus the Quebec Bulldogs ???

Now, I'm neither credentialed as, or pretending to be a Canadian cultural enthusiast or hockey fanatic.  I just throw out my two cents.

But word has been out for awhile that Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver could support a second NHL team with ease.  Hockey is blood in Canada.  The studies and claims are out there, ... University of Toronto etc and so forth.  Go get 'em.

There was a team in ancient NHL history called the Quebec Bulldogs.  I wonder if the fans would go for that, or would they feel a more nostalgic appeal for Nordiques and Expos?

Could there be 3 or 4 second teams in NHL Canada?  

I mean, I know there is a big expansion drive to put more NHL on the map to grow the sport, so it really won't happen for a long long time, but it's fun to think about.

AHL Relocations

Relocations recently

• The Albany Devils relocated to become the Binghamton Devils to replace the Binghamton Senators.
• The Binghamton Senators were purchased by their parent club, the Ottawa Senators, and relocating the team to Belleville, Ontario, as the Belleville Senators.^[4]
• The Montreal Canadiens' AHL franchise, then operating as the St. John's IceCaps, is announced as relocating to the Montreal suburb of Laval, Quebec, as the Laval Rocket.^[5][6] Danny Williams, owner of the IceCaps team but not a franchise holder, announced on the same day his intentions to find another AHL franchise to replace the Canadiens' owned franchise

 wikipedia

Doubled up in Montreal.
Sometimes I advocate a broader reach in naming, if not locating.  But I'd never say that Toronto and Montreal couldn't/shouldn't have two. ....and I would argue the extra big time teams OUT of the likes of LA and NYC.
In my opinion Quebec Rocket might work better, but who cares.  Not a question.

                                     wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hockey_League

What's the pool of candidates for Vegas 'Nights aside from Chicago?

Just some Uneducated Guesses on the Next WNBA Expansion(s)

wikipedia:  current and former teams

Take your pick

NOLA never had.  Ditto Memphis.
           Dolphins and  Sizzlies
Toronto Maple Ladies
Denver Dames
Milwaukee ReindeerS
Jersey Nets
Boston Kilts                                                   

check out:  D-WNBA League

Kansas City Swarm
Cincinnati Stunners
Las Vegas Flight
Jacksonville Mamas
Mobile Ladies
Boise Girls

Expansion Mind Game (pt. 3). My Helluva' Idea

Polygamy will have its place in a future of third genders.

Having one team for two cities was an idea I had for a league to stick a team, with its toes into the water, into two questionable markets (like for MLB, Portland and Las Vegas).  I would love to see for this happen to the Athletics.  Re-coin them as the West Coast A's.  They could remain in Oakland and dabble in Portland and/or Vegas.  Build a 30k seat expandable ready beauty of a ballpark in another city.  If I were Oakland, I'd do it in Vegas.
What I'd do with the Rays?  Say bye bye.  Tampa would share some time with the reborn Florida Marlins.  And you'd have Expos reborn.  Magic.

So, I added a new market and still have room for two more teams to make a 32 team MLB.

All this junk I talk is already throughout my blog

I'll tell ya' the next two teams.  Vancouver and Portland could show international love with the West Coast Lumberjacks.  The apparel sales for the A's and 'Jacks would end up being phenomenal, wouldn't you think.  Take that bank of the Bronx!

Next up:  the Carolina Colonists?  Flights?  Bye bye monopoly on the true south Atlanta.  I've thought that maybe the North Country 'Jacks should be in Montreal and Vancouver.  Personally I think the Expos are ugly.  I've even thought about the International Expose of Montreal-Las Vegas, which could justifiably squeeze into any division alignment.  East Coast Expos with Charlotte, too.  I was just operating under the assumption that one market could show itself as a breakaway and alleviate any doubts that number crunchers and league offices had.  Music City bouncing around the likes of Nashville, New Orleans and Memphis.

West Coast Clippers.  Or San Diego Clippers.  St. Louis.  Missouri.  Louisville.  Seattle.  Something else.

Florida Panthers.  Um, how 'bout the Southlakes Fishermen for Miami and Atlanta.  West Coast Coyotes however you feel.  Northwest Coast Ghosts.  Northern Lights.  Whatever you'd do.

West Coast Raiders?  Nord Force in CFL stadiums.  TV would be all of Canada.  Money.  Kentucky Downs in Louisville.

Great Lakes Foot Soldiers, Armada.  A lot of cities in that region:  Milwaukee, Cleveland, Indy, Rochester and Cinci.  Bootleggers United:  Nashville and Charlotte-Raleigh region.

 

See your place in the Index Key

See much more expansion, co-location and relocation talk for 

both footballs, baseball, basketball and hockey on my blog 

prosportsexpansion.blogspot.com 

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What do you think?  Am I off my rocker and high in the clouds?

Expansion Mind Game, pt. 2

                                                               ....and to balance the league
NBA
Seattle again           

NHL

First popped to mind

Portland

NFL
Portland  ...but my hearts says OKC

MLB
Portland

MLS
San Diego and St. Louis are two saintly
cities that lost American football
.....    but Detroit stands alone

Between my first and second selections, 

did I miss a more deserving?

Expansion Mind Game (pt. 3). My Helluva' Idea

Expansion Mind Game

I name a sport (league) and you say the first city that comes to mind for a new team.

NBA
Louisville

NHL
Quebec City

NFL
Toronto

MLB
Charlotte

MLS
Sacramento

Expansion Mind Game, pt. 2

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 ANY OF THESE CATCH YOUR EYES?

How about some New Canadian Football League Teams in America
 

Should Kansas City and Omaha Team Up for a Pro Franchise?

Map of Major League Looks for MLS
Tiered Map of the Next Expansions: NBA

Expansion of One Team in Each of the Big Five Spor...
Tiered Map of the Next Expansions: National Hockey...
Sacramento Soccer for MLS. +  NEWS

Tiered Map of the Next Expansions: NFL
Tiered Map of the Next Expansions: MLB
Ohio Flights and Kentucky Horsemen for an NBA Expa...
Say No to two Los Angeles NFL Teams
Should Kansas City and Omaha Team Up for a Pro Fra...

Geographic Twin Cities in Major Sports America. S...

 Minor League Football. The Better Idea?

Imagine some Minor League Football Affiliations option I
Imagine some Minor League Football Affiliations option II

Ontario Gold Horseman NHL Expansion Team should be Toronto's Team Two

Indianapolis is next east city to get NHL, right?
Ohio Flights NBA Expansion Team. House it in a Couple Spots
Which Sportless City Gets Which Sport Next?
Best 100 Miles of Big Baseball
Eyeing Major League Soccer. A Cincinnati Goal
Add "Nation" to the Jersey
                                                                            With MLB Expansion Comes MiLB Expansion
What to Do with a Two-Place Team's Empty Ballpark?
Relocating the Coyotes and the Panthers
Wyoming Truckers Team for MiLB
The Idea of Retraction in Claim: LA and Miami

The NFL in San Marcos Texas 

Ohio Aviators NBA Team
Grey Coast Ghosts. NHL Expansion Team

Transteleportation of Sports Spectatorship 

Las Vegas Montreal Internationals Baseball
Major League Baseball in Tennessee. How to Beat Out Charlotte for the Bid

National Women's Soccer League 

ECHL or AHL Should at least have a Team in the Northwest
MLS in Tucson

Dakota NHL Team   The Diesel?

TV Market Money More Important Than The Gate?
Without the NBA
 MLB to 2100 AD
Over 20 American Cities Stand to Gain from Camp Model
NBA Expansion in Your City. Does Anyone Even Care?

Kansas City-Omaha Kings  

  

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

WMLB and my Lady Redlegs v. the San Diego Madres

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

WNBA. So why not the WMLS?

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

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

                         wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports_attendance_figures

See Some more links.  Part II:
 Hitting the Links, Dose' (Dos, II)

Catupulting Links. Hitting the Links, bloggystyle

What excites me:

FUN TIMES

WMLB

Women's Major League Baseball. The WMLB

WMLB and my Lady Redlegs v. the San Diego Madres

WMLB Team Names

Outdoor NBA Series
                                                                    The Sixth Sport
20,000 Seat Stadiums and the Next Baseball Expansion

Homegrown Cincinnatian for every Red team
MLB 2050

NFL 2050
Canadian Power. Is that a Good Name for a Toronto NFL Team?

Minor League Football. The Junior Varsity

Omaha-Dakota Diesel NHL Team

  MLB Building a Ballpark at Army Base

 

CFL Expansion: An Experimental in America

Bootleggers United 

Let's say 32 Minor League Teams for NFL  

Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL

Next Major League City: NBA and NFL Got Louisville Next

 

NBA D-League becoming G-League for Gatorade. ______WIRED

We're under arrest

And depicted I have not the heart to post pics to convey anything,...from Gatorade, to the Philadelphia Stub Hub Sixers, to my FC Cincinnati (which can extremely easily be mistaken for FC Toyota).  Even if the entrepreneurial sensibility and spirit of America is involved.



The G spot



But just like stadium naming rights, it's good business.  And maybe ? as of yet it hasn't heavily infringed on aesthetics of NASCAR and beyond.

Teams I want to see in CFL

Atlantic Fishermen in Halifax

Kentucky Downs

Oklahoma Oilers

Oregon Truckers

Idaho-Omaha Express

Santa Fe Railroad

For much more, searchword @ top left search of this blog page:  "CFL"