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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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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Ohio Alliance. What's a good Name for a Multi-Located Ohio Major League Soccer Team?

Wouldn't it be neat for a MLS team to be located in Cleveland and Cincinnati?

I've blogblabbed before about having a team in Toledo considering proximity with the absence of a Detroit team.  But I'm sure they'll eventually have something like the Detroit Arsenal (click Detroit Arsenal Major League Soccer Expansion Team  ).

The facilities are in place now where the Bengals and Browns play.  Eventually an all-futbol stadium would have to be a part of the commitment to the league.  How about Dayton?  What about a stadium in between the 40 miles that separate Cincinnati Dayton in the Cinday Corridor off of Interstate 75?  The county that blends, blurs and co-exists in the areas is Butler County.
(Ohio United. Or call it an Ohio Divided Team. Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex)

What would an all-Ohio Cincinnati'ish Cleveland team be called?
With the presence of the Crew, I think Ohio Divided is a clever twist.  I've bloggerated about the same thing with another Texas team near Dallas and Houston turf.  I've talked about an alternative in being a shared C-city named team of the Crew.
(Columbus Crew C-Bus Cincinnati - A new Major League Soccer arrangement. MLS Expansion in general)

With my co-locationing travel tag-team argument though, the footballs, being a weekly venue for the NFL and MLS, are pretty lackluster for my idea.  Probably unless the branding is brilliant.  Let's say, in my dreamworld, a regional powerbrand were developed out of the Jacksonville Jaguars.  Let's say they became the Southland Jaguars and in their first season they played 4 home games in Jacksonville, 2 home-camp games in Louisville, and two where the Crimson Tide play.  And let's say Southern Americans of the Outlands embraced this.  Wouldn't the apparel sales and "Southern" nation be a boom?  It's just a sloppy example but what would a total rebrand bring for that scheme?  The Southlakes Fisherman?  The Hunters.  Connotation with the South has to tread lightly.  I've blogblabbed on posts before about the Southern Draw or the Southern Drawl.  The confederacy seems to be going more and more out of style.

But anyway.  O H I O

Ohio Divided.  United.  Arsenal.  Battle.  Brigade.  Sky   ?

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Dream up Team Rebirths: The Expos, Whalers, Oilers, Royals and Monarchs

Remember the Houston Oilers?
Or the Hartford Whalers, Montreal Expos, Cincinnati Royals and Kansas City Monarchs?

Basketball, football, hockey and baseball rebirths these could be.


Did you know that the first pro night games didn't happen in MLB?  KC Monarchs of the Negro Leagues did it before the Reds did at Crosley Field.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Monarchs

negroleaguebaseball.com/teams/Kansas_City_Monarchs.html

Baltimore and Cinci in the NBA

Anyway, the New Orleans-St. Louis Stars were a two-place team for a time.

wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Stars_%28baseball%29




Check out some of this blabber:

Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL

The old Kings of Sacramento:  wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Kings#1957.E2.80.931972:_Cincinnati_Royals 

....and you knew that the Kansas City-Omaha Kings existed, right?  1972-1975

Big Baseball back in Montreal after a decade absence ?

Major League Baseball in Vancouver and Montreal. Make it one team. North Country Lumberjacks

Las Vegas Montreal Internationals Baseball. Major League Expansion Experiment

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

....and I think the Nordiques will come back in the NHL's planned expansion.  More Canadian hockey is rightfully so.  Midlakes Mustangs NHL Expansion Team

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

...or should Nashville share with Atlanta as the Southlakes Predators?

1996 never came for the Nordiques

What do you think?

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Look at the Hockey Possibilities. Coyotes Should Drop the thoughts of an Arizona, Phoenix or Glendale Name

For goodness sake, the Coyotes really truly don't have a home.  As drumbeat to death in my blog, I have many solutions for the existing franchise, one of which is Portland.  From a marketing standpoint, Portlandia seems practically ignored by a little sister of sin.

truschoolsports.com/2015/07/nhl-a-desert-mess-edition/

Arizona seemingly wants it's NHL team to vacate.  Would it be better off in Vegas?  For now I say yes.  If they re-brand a little with the move to Sin City, it can maintain as well as widen it's fan base.  Call them the West Coast Coyotes.  And they could reach the stretches of Seattle and Portland in a place of play expansion and/or a brand expansion, if only in name and exhibitions.

So yeah, which cities are more deserving in the west?  Seattle, Portland and Salt Lake City of course.  It could travel tag team between all of the mentioned cities, including Glendale, under the West Coast brand.

What do you think?

I have plenty of blogs talking about which cities should be the East Coast Whalers and how Cleveland/Milwaukee should be a shared team claiming the Great Lakes.

kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/sam-mellinger/article26509780.html

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As We continue to Manifest Destiny

This is a shout out to the overlookeds on this day of freedom and independence.

Prisoners of War, Missing in Action

And the first team to tout lights in pro baseball, the KC Monarchs of an outkast league

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Population Combos I Could See for One Team in the Big Five Sports Leagues

3 of the 5 sports leagues excite me more for my Camping Model (T3) simply because they play more games.  Weekly venues like the footballs of MLS and NFL are once a week.  In terms of feasibility, what is exciting about those 2 is that it's more likely to get filled.  I play on absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder for 2 or 3 cities as the homes for one team.

Let's look at my first 3 leagues:

NHL
Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas  EXPANSION

Western Railroad (Arizona and Austin) REBRAND OF COYOTES

see Western Railroad NHL Team of Austin and Arizona

South Lakes Predators of Nashville and Atlanta

North Coast Great Lakers of Cleveland, Milwaukee, Indianapolis  EXPANSION

Along with Toronto Dos and Quebec City.
SLC?
Utah?  see:  Dakota NHL Team 
Since the league probably won't get rid of the Panthers..........


Vegas and Portland are over 5 million people for the possible power expansion in each league.
For a southern embraced Predators, 8 million or more fans is better than an area of just 2 mill, right?
5.5 mill for a Milwaukee-Cleveland, plus maybe Cinci and Indy adding millions and millions more?


MLB
Tampa Monterrey Rays.  From the lowest butts in seats brand to the biggest powerbrand of them all?

West Coast Athletics, maybe adding Las Vegas and Portland for at least some appearances and perhaps in 20k ballparks.  And millions of millions of West Coasters from Boise to Alaska and Hawaii for an embrace?
    Oakland, don't be sad.  You'll share the California Angels.
East Coast Expos      of Charlotte and Montreal            EXPANSION
Midland of Nashville, Little Rock and OKC?
Or what about a southland brand combination?
Or would the Las Vegas-Montreal International Expos be cool for a co'op and flexible league alignment?


NBA
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Louisville
St. Louis
Baltimore?
Can you think of any river city teams?  Tri-State Titans?  Eastern Battalion?  Eastland Outlanders?
All in all, a new big league town like Louisville seems more deserving.
Tons and tons of people for an eastland embrace of a tag team.

West Coast Clippers?

Seattle
San Diego
Las Vegas ...what about Albuquerque?
occasions in Anchorage and Honolulu.

There is chatter all of the above-mentioned in my blog about

Weekly venues like MLS and NFL have less playing time but do have a ton more feasible location options.  College or pro stadiums could suffice.  If the West Coast Raiders came to be there are plenty of places to play from Oregon to Nevada to even Hawaii.
In those same places, MLS could dabble.   I've talked about Los Angeles's second football club (the old Chivas) being co-located in Las Vegas as the West Coast Diamond Club.  See article <click>

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News. NFL Expansion of Reporting Talent-driven. More NHL in Minn.?

Image of reporter Vanessa Huppenkothen

awfulannouncing.com/2015/nfl-hires-two-new-reporters-in-an-on-going-effort-to-dominate-nfl-media.html

duluthnewstribune.com/news/3778739-proctor-city-councilor-wants-nhl-team

Vegas Hockey Talk still strong:  seekingalpha.com/article/3300825-possible-sports-expansion-a-future-catalyst-for-mgm-resorts

What do you think?

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...and look at samples
East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL
Portland the NHL's Bridesmaid. Maybe the Bride. Expansion/Relocation

Grey Coast Ghosts. NHL Expansion Team that Includes Portland and Seattle. West Coast Brand

Dakota NHL Team

Western Railroad NHL Team of Austin and Arizona

I mean, this could be an MLS franchise.  Or if the Coyotes would move for digs like in Las Vegas

First things first though:
Toronto 2 seems like a reality in the not-too-distant future.  And probably before that in the NHL's craw (though faster than every other league besides a birthing MLS) towards expansion, Quebec City, and....and...Las Vegas or Seattle will land a team.  And hopefully Portland.  If Las Vegas at least already had an MLS franchise, we'd probably be chatting about Portland over Sin City.

But let's talk about some more bounds.  Austin is in the same state as Las Vegas.  Well, I mean to say, Las Vegas doesn't have Houston, Dallas, or even San Antonio, which are closer to Austin than LA is to Vegas.  And the state of Nevada is a condition of no teams in the Big Five; just like the city in Texas that doesn't.

Northern places like Cinci or Indianapolis don't have a team, but what about the likes of OKC or Austin?  Or Salt Lake City.  Yeah!  An SLC-Austin tag travel team.  Places like that and Vegas may roll ice tumbleweeds but I like a team with combo cities, especially in what might be questionable markets.  The Kansas City-Omaha Kings of an NBA ago did it.  And I'm sorry, but Las Vegas compared with Portland and Seattle for hockey is suspect.  Hockey likes to be known for balls, even if they're really with pucks.  And with Austin compared to Houston, Austin wins out aesthetically if you ask me and many others for hockeytown.

Would a Western Railroad or Cattlemen/Cattle Drive brand in, let's say the NBA or NHL (or even MLS) work with an Austin-Vegas tag team?

Ooohh.  The Double-A (All-American (Austin to Arizona) Highway.  Highwaymen.  Sounds nifty.

Got any thoughts or brand ideas for combos?

A non-pro team in Austin, Texas

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

Portland: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports

East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL
Portland the NHL's Bridesmaid. Maybe the Bride. Expansion/Relocation

Grey Coast Ghosts. NHL Expansion Team that Includes Portland and Seattle. West Coast Brand

Dakota NHL Team 

Gulf Run Rays. Major League Baseball in Monterrey, New Orleans and Tampa 

Major League Baseball in Nashville and New Orleans 

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