Magic v. Heat
Orlando SC v. Atl Utd.
Suns v. Cubs
Sharks v. Jaguars
Solar Bears v. Lightning
Next Professional Sports Expansion Franchise by Sporting Geography. Where should the next Pro teams be? Your town? Why? The Big 5 Leagues and even the minors. Relocations on the table. With your heart and mind. Let's toss around some ideas. Envision possibility at your place. Talk also about rebranding and travel-team-like co-location feasibility combinations. Spitball !
Magic v. Heat
Orlando SC v. Atl Utd.
Suns v. Cubs
Sharks v. Jaguars
Solar Bears v. Lightning
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| Tempe |
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.
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.
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.
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
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| Battlehawks. Rapids. |
Saints vs. Bengals
Parades and Cardinals
Bayou v. Austin SC
Pelicans v. Jazz
Gators take on the Flames
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.
Central
Texas Sidewinders
Central Texas with San Antonio & Austin have about two-thirds the market Dallas does.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.
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| A.I. missed some teams. |
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.
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.
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?
In the previous post I had A.I. do Montreal’s rendering. I like the brand ‘Jacks for our North Country neighbors.
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.
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| Raleigh |
They would name it Carolina, right? Please do not insert Star Wars Princess Laya meme. In honor of 9/11 and a billionaire jobless Islamic mayor of NYC voted in, who cares.