Green Bay, Alabama?

 Greenbowwwwwway, A L A B A MMMMMA

Green Bay, Wisconsin is the third largest city on Lake Michigan with over 100,000 folks. Population is way bigger by Sunday.

Clanton, Alabama doesn’t have 9,000 and they’re not even on a big lake. They’re pretty much just off a car river called I-65 in the center of Alabama between Birminghamland and Montgomery.

The Sundays after the Saturdays could be huge. Pastors will hunt you down!

Did I guess wrong? Where’s a good megachurch stadium for the football cheesy crazy heads to tailgate pilgrimage to?

Woodstock, Alabama is between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. What about there, hippies?

NFL Name: Elephants? Alabama Iron.

Hammers. Slammas?

Meta AI did not do a good job of greasing the name game for sore connotations: For Alabama as an Old South NFL team, you want something that hits Southern heritage without sounding like a college team - tough, regional, and works on a helmet. Here are the names that would actually work: Heritage / Old South identity:

Alabama Yellowhammers - Alabama's nickname, state bird, Civil War nickname for Alabama troops. Shorten to the Hammers. Great helmet logo, not used in NFL.

Alabama Iron - Birmingham was the iron and steel capital of the South. Tough, industrial, blue-collar. Colors: forge black, crimson, steel gray.

Alabama Dixie - Classic Old South term. The Dixie Express or Dixie Stars would have been the 1960s AFL-style name. Very marketable for music/culture.

Alabama Generals - References the military history of the state, works for football - field generals. 

Alabama Rebels - Ole Miss uses it, but it's the most common Old South sports name for a reason - rebellious spirit, independent.

Alabama Cottonmouths - Old South agriculture + a venomous snake. Great for a defense. Shorten to Mouths or Cotton.

Culture / Place based: Alabama Red Clay - That iconic red dirt that defines Alabama football fields. Unique, tough, very Southern.

Alabama Magnolias - State flower vibe, Old South elegance, but you can make it tough - Magnoila black and white.

Alabama Forge - Same family as Iron, but sounds more modern NFL.

Alabama Rivermen - Alabama River, Mobile Bay, riverboat South.

Alabama Stallions - Horse country, Black Belt, speed and power.

Alabama Confederates - If you wanted to go fully historical Old South, that's the direct name from the 1860s. Would be the most historically literal, but hardest to brand today.

Daytonnati. Arena in a small city tucked between bigger cities

 

Daytonnati Arena Location?

 

Liberty Township, Monroe and Middletown, Ohio go from south to north along I-75 respectively, sandwiched with some elbow room between Cincinnati and Dayton metros.

A nice Ohio brand could be deemed. What team name say you?

Being over I-75 in north Liberty Township and looking Southwest (for top-left and bottom depiction). Top-right is a west by southwest view.

Kind of looking south-by-southwest over Monroe. You can see casino racetrack in background. The depiction should be a little west away from the interstate. 

Middletown’s old mall would be bowled over here. The old stomping grounds of Jerry Lucas, Chris Carter and Kyle Schwarber may rejoice.

Ticker tape 2100 Orlando

 Opening day tix package year 2100

Magic v. Heat 

Orlando SC v. Atl Utd.

Suns v. Cubs

Sharks v. Jaguars

Solar Bears v. Lightning 

States without minor MiLB baseball

 

Colorado Springs had the Sky Sox.

What about some more future MLB affiliated……

Rhodesters

Arizona Roundtrippers

Dakota Drillers ?

Vermont has a history including the Reds and Mariners. Wyoming had independent pro clubs.

Arizona has plenty of room around Phoenix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arizona_Complex_League_stadiums

Tempe 

Need more Canadian baseball

2018, March 30 I posted this talk of MiLB Canada future. If the North Country Jacks come into play, housed in Vancouver & Montreal (justifying any geographical league alignment), maybe they can have more than just a Canadian farm system that largely plays across levels. Wouldn’t that be interesting? Definitely keeps players even more so on their toes, as if baseball isn’t aggravatingly hard to play professionally on its own in making adjustments and quieting inner voices. If at the same league level players saw each other on an even more regularly on a frequent basis, that’d quickly point out what a player can handle and dish out in more frequent patterns/encounters. What if a pitcher owns a batter or vice versa on a weekly basis?

Enough of that shit. I’m posting some A.i generated logos: 

Niagara niagaras is a fictional team. Maybe the mascot can be the Tipper.

Right across the waterway in Detroit is Windsor. Have a team there called the Tigersmackers or Zookeepers.

The Big Brands

 The coat tail rooting that spills over the map.

Louisville Arena Football vs. Cincinnati

 Horsemen of the Apocalypse at Kentucky Downs vs. the Cincinnati Battlegroup

Arena Football

Fire names for the future?

Cincinnati Celtics, Dayton Drones, Columbus Americans, Pennsylvania Iron

St. Louis Steam, Nashville Huntsman, Birmingham Bammas

Portland Fire, Utah Rescue, Colorado Mountaineers, West Virginia Patriots

 Virginia Riders, Boise Blues, Arizona Marshals, Minnesota Blizzards, Carolina Kings

NFL for Austin & San Antonio

A compromised Texas location around the highway in San Marcos would’ve suited the 

San Antonio and Austin travels well.

An annual exhibition preseason game at UTEP.

Cowboys and Texans would obviously buck such an expansion.

Cowboys has a nation. Texans vie for the state in name.

A.I. agglomerated and offered up Iron Wolves.  Renegades, Outlaws, Scorpions, Stampede and Express.

Instead of expansion I’d have preferred relocation. LA, justified though it may be, is greedy. Texas Bolts or Chargers would been good. Even a Portland Power would’ve been better. Toronto Power. San Antonio Chargers. Anything.

Region ‘Capitols

Kang of the Northwest is Seattle. 

West is LA. I wonder if that’s permanent.

Big five Mountain Time champ = Denver. Sorry, Phoenix hockey.

Central time defaults to Dallas.

Populationwise as well, in the Midwest it’s Chicago.

Dirty South could be New Orleans depending how much we fragment this vibe-map. Another swampy south but tropical vibe mention is Miami. For sports they got it all. 

Atlanta is a strong default in mentioning a ball hog of the south. Puck that. Nashville might vie for it in decades to come.

Northeast is double-up NYC. 

For geographic purposes a king of north claim could be had for Minneapolis.

Ticker tape 2100 St. Louis

St. Louis Opening Day tickets package,… maybe. Year 2100 A.D.

Cards v. Reds 

Blues v. Penguins

SLSC v. Columbus Crew

Battlehawks v. Bears

Rapids v. Bucks 

Battlehawks. Rapids.

Decade later is dark horse

The difference a dozen years make…

Since 2014 the NFL returned to Los Angeles in the double dose again.

As for MLB Portland & Charlotte are no longer front-runners. Between the riotous blingy trendy borderless boothead problem storming the nation the apple pie pastime may no longer fit in those Afroconfederate Soviet sanctuary markets.

NBA is not going my way à la Louisville. Glitz and glamour clamour to Las Vegas. It’s empty, it’s not homey and it’s likely a candidate for relocation when the getting isn’t good. I’m calling it before it even starts. Loyalty is an issue. Like LeeBrsun Jamiseisons’ loyalty. The refugeebreeds be refugeeing.

Austin indeed finally took center stage in center Texas. Maybe that will prove to help break the ice.

NHL did return to Seattle, but there we are with the Vegas Big Four or Five boomtown of lust over loyalty again.  Portland against the world when it comes to that place showing its jungle barista brat ass.

Ticker tape 2100 New Orleans

New Orleans opening day tickets package.

Saints vs. Bengals

Parades and Cardinals

Bayou v. Austin SC

Pelicans v. Jazz 

Gators take on the Flames

Cities to get 2 Big Five teams ?

Louisville needs the Horsemen NBA and Kentucky Downs NFL

SLC after baseball Eagles can have Raptors

Portland Talls and Stags

OKC is decades away from a market substantially over a million for two more, though I think a lot of markets can swing a tailgate for NFL, especially states that have two big college contenders in them. Oilers anyone?

Toronto is the no-brainer for that balance on the NFL map.

MLS Gap. Albuquerque area …and by Buffalo

 Upstate v. The Ranch

Dallas for a Two-team town w/ MLB at Austin

 Central

Texas Sidewinders

Central Texas with San Antonio & Austin have about two-thirds the market Dallas does.

I wonder if a Texas billionaire could finagle another team into town (Greater Dallas), with at least 40 home camp games in Austin/San Antonio Central Texasplex.

Ohio bush

 

MLB expansion rounds down the road

Next: Tennessee Stars & Utah Raptors

2040?: Carolina Cats & Portland Talls

2060: Indiana Farmers & Oklahoma Pilots

Will the Expos ever reincarnate? Will Anglo and Franco ties be looser in Western politics in a Brexity-fragmented Euro-world kind of way, thereby Quebec blowing off baseball?

If my year 2040/60 panned out, below is what turf is staked.

A.I. missed some teams.

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Volleyball at Wrigley last weekend

 Hockey and Volleyball at baseball. Hockey at football.

Any others to do?

MLS map gap. Winnipeg and South Carolina

 A team already exists called Charleston Battery. Whether MLS stays the same or does relegation someday….they can take on more Canadian teams

MLS…..futuro

Arsenal and Armada take to the pitch.

The Ranch travel from Albuquerque to Bootleggers Utd. in Louisville this week.

Canyon against Bayou

PACOM in Honolulu, Oakland and occasionally Anchorage camped “home”. Represent.

Drive OK takes on Scout Platoon Idaho

Diamond Club @ Deisel

The Parade @ Indiana Infantry ground game

Intra-Canadian battle of Energy taking on the Flock. The Meece Flock fans bang the drums.Atlantic Fleet at tier 2 will have camped games docking at Norfolk or Charleston for the loser of the Sac Rep v. Austin FC. Winner of that takes on Great Lakes. Pitt goes down river to take on FCC.

Maybe relegation structure of two-tier league will usher in wider geographical inclusivity decades earlier.

North Country ‘Jacks, Vancouver Canadiens & Montreal Expos

 North Country ‘Jacks be flapping in Vancouver and Montreal.

In Triple-A, respectively, so can the Canadiens & Expos. 40 big league games and some farm team squad action.

Montreal with Vancouver Viability

 A.I., citing MLB standards,  didn’t like my 15,000 seat aim at viability. 

Pretty much it wants more than 25k seats. It does mention higher scalability for renovating to accommodate more seating. If British Columbia wouldn’t stack up to even only 40 games, more seats can be stacked in Montreal.

Should some of these just be triple-A towns?

Artintell maps suck so bad, missing O-birds and Brewers…Angels, Cubbies…

What year could this be? 2075 or 2100…

Tennessee Stars vs. Utah Raptors

Carolina Cougarcats vs. Indiana Farmers

Louisville Lumber Co. vs. Omaha Oaks

Oklahoma Pilots vs. Portland Talls

New Orleans Parades vs. Orlando Gators (OG?) or Palms

North Country Jacks vs. Central Texas Sidewinders

For now, Portland, Orlando and Montreal need bigger league teams. Some of the other cities could have, and have sustained bigger teams like Trip-A before. Not shown, Richmond and Dayton has the attendance figures to sustain AAA. Austin or San Antonio for MLB?

Arizona Soccer Club vs. another swath of America. MLS gaps

 Toe-tapping markets. Dipping the toes in to see the temperature. Arizona and Appalachia’ish.

More MLB Canada. Lumberjacks play in Vancouver & Montreal

Any divisional alignment justified. Their affiliate clubs can share the two 15,000 seat stadiums. Ball hogs in Canada.

In the previous post I had A.I. do Montreal’s rendering. I like the brand ‘Jacks for our North Country neighbors.

Montreal could be Athletics Triple-A team ?

 Expos, or call them Internationals.

I’m really about multi-nodal all-Canadian brands in MLB and the NFL, North Country and Norde Force.

The North Country Lumberjacks sharing time in 15,000 seat ballparks in Vancouver and Montreal. The triple-A squads can share the places.

Spoiler alert…a future post talks about how A.I. countered my notion with economic sense.

Cincinnati Sisters vs. Nashville Cowgals

 

I like the Gals name.

WNBA specific arena in Cincinnati 

Austin Outlaws v. KC

 This ain’t your Stars and Mavs 

Which future MLB city wears green better ?

 Portland Talls or Indiana Farmers

Wish List Maps

 As seen in blog posts.