Awesome Sports Maps

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Is Paul Brown Stadium setting itself up as Major League Soccer for Cincinnati?

I mean, by current standards PBS isn't exactly keeping up with the Jerry Joneses.
It's soooooooooo 2000.

And so Mike Brown can get a new NFL cathedral while FC Cinci could have their solo Futbol venue instead of sharing house with college football (as beautiful as the Wrigley of college football is).

Berding and Brown could both get what they want.   Do they do cigars together and is this thought something they've mulled over?

Take a click and look at Nippert on these links:

cincinnati.com/story/sports/soccer/fc-cincinnati/2016/11/23/fc-cincys-2m-nippert-reconfiguration-enhance-field-size-player-safety

FC Cincinnati MLS by 2021 

American Attitude Change for Sports Facilities. The Environment !!!

Will Kentucky taxpayers vie for being Cincinnati's New Jersey and Jungle?

NHL, Out West Next?

Seattle
Portland                                                            ? ? ?
Salt Lake City

Kansas City and that newer arena ?  I would be big on a combo of cities making for a West Coast Coyotes or something.  I've schemed an East Coast named team also.

Ohio River

                 Out east?

Cincinnati and that newer arena ?

Hartford had it.

Hampton Roads (Norfolk and Virginia Beach region)

Here are some previously posted arguments:

Ditto for NBA and some of these places?

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

East Coast Brands in Norfolk

Kentucky Downs. The NFL in Louisville

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

 

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 

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Dart at the Map for new NASCAR Venues

Do you spy any blank spots?

Post:
NASCAR is a Spectacle I suppose. More Venues?

First popping to mind in my imagination are the Minni track, the Den in Colorado and a trip in between for those in Seattle and Portland at the SeaPort Speedway.
What about the Santa Fe Albuquerque Express?
Okietrack?  The Pitt?                                                      What sayeth you?

Vegas Golden KNights. It's Official !!!

cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/vegas-golden-knights

 The big leagues is finally unveiled in Vegas, via the National Hockey League

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas_Golden_Knights 

sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/how-did-nhl-teams-get-their-names-expansion

New Stadium for New Major League Soccer team at Gateway. And a Question.

First off, congratulations to St. Louis for working to replace a football with another football.

But I have a question.  More prime downtown space is being used to build another stadium. 

Is the multi-use multipurpose stadium model dead?  The same'ish square field can't have the same rowdy seating?  2 big oblong saucers will sit how vacant for how many days, even in hay days?  And I pose this question for many o' cities.

Take my birthplace hometown for example.  In the next 10 years, MLS could come to fruition for Cincinnati.  We have our NFL stadium.  Our futbol club utilizes our scenic and charming University's football field.  Contemporarily, more seats are utilized for football than futbol.  Some seats get tarped at the stadium.  This is also the case for Seattle's MLS Sounders at their Double Football Field.  I love the Northwest's (Port-Sea) leaning towards environment.  And no, I don't want to talk about how the Bengals stadium is already outdated 16 years later and how Mike Brown will likely try to be keeping up with the Jerry Joneses.  And how Paul Brown Stadium might become Cincinnati Public High School Football Stadium .....or home to MLS 'Nnati while a stadium lures Bengals play across the river,....Kentucky being Cincinnati's New Jersey.

It's a question of money, space utilization, and ultimately our manifest destiny against (or with) the environment.  MLS wants their exclusive stamp.  I see that.  I love baseball's rebirth for nostalgic tie-ins.  But even business-wise I wonder about such questions as Detroit, and economy justifying build-baby-build at every turn.

HOK group and ESPN FC

 

What's up with the Rams of ago for St. Louis's ol' NFL stadium, Corporate yadda yadda whatever Dome?   Doesn't seem to be a big plan set as the taxpayers are paying rent for emptiness.

And on another side note:  I love that that city had essentially a shared identity brand for the city in a Football and Baseball Cardinals (1960-88).  Can you envision such other shared identity in any other sports towns?  Will St. Louis have another 7 or so seasons gap for being without the NFL?  Ehh.

riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016-things-we-could-do-with-the-edward-jones-dome

I suppose MLS Saint Loueeeey should be there.  Since the fans and taxpayers are paying for the dome's haunting up to at least 2022.  Build baby build though.

Could it be an indoor community baseball dome used by the Cards in inclimate weather????  How exciting (or unpleasant) would that exciting day-to-day shuffle be?

Think, McFly.

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Question: California Raiders? Chargers?

I mean, there are relocation options.  ...ranging from the Portland or Las Vegas Raiders.  And the other most mentioned is San Antonio.  Even murmers of Oklahoma City wanting some such NFL.  Who wouldn't want some badass name like Raiders tagged on their town?

And if you read my blog, you know that I'm biggest on the West Coast Raiders either changing the name and staying,.....or sharing with Portland and/or Las Vegas.

But could the Raiders join the Rams in being just LA again?  It's been brought up that the Chargers could be bullied away from San Diego.  But here's what I've got to say about talk of essentially the Los Angeles or Carson Chargers.  Make whichever team shares stadiums with the Rams, ...make it the "California" brand at least instead of the same ol' boring first name of LA.

If I had to pick one town for a team instead of aforementionings of tag-team-town innovation, I wouldn't mind seeing the Las Vegas Chargers claiming their Hoover Dam.  And I wouldn't mind a West Coast Raiders in Portland or Vegas.

But damn, do something different.  Yes, you get stadium seating in Los Angeles, easily every week.  But expand your brand on the map,...don't just rob Oakland or San Diego because taxpayers don't want to rent a team before the next outdated threat to build again or get snatched.

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NEWSY. Chargers maybe-might not be San Diego. Los Angeles and Las Vegas are some Chatter

cbssports.com news/chargers-few-options-but-to-move-to-los-angeles-after-stadium-vote-fails

Screw two teams in LA, I say.  The way business looks at it, they're selling ratings to the second largest market in America, twice the time.  'Tis Manifest Money.

San Antonio always likes to be in the conversation.   And what of Portland?  That's a population gap.  Rooting for Timbers & then the Seahawks could get confusing for the footballS fans, I'd imagine.  I don't imagine the folks of Seattle have picked up the ball for 'Blazers.

But NFL.
I'd say anything but double-donging Los Angeles in yet another sport.
Oh, NFL Canada would be sweet!  Imagine a team named Canadian Power.  Some of their possibility of play could happen east and west at home.  Think BC Place and Rogers Centre.

What can I say,....I highly support taxpayers seeing stadium levees as needless welfare helping rich people way more than the taxpayer.  And keeping up with the Jerry Joneses is an American folly.
I wish you all the best, San Diego.  Los Angeles?  No.  Just no.

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Factoid: 122 Teams in the Big Four

142 in the Big Five

NHL might add two more soon.  We're thinking Quebec with the newbie of Las Vegas.
MLS is currently at 20 with more on the definite docket.

The markets of Los Angeles and New York, the biggest American markets, hog up more than their share.  They have two teams each in the Big Five.  I guess I didn't say fair share one way or another.

Markets on the cusps and missing some now?  Let me name a few.

Untouched by Big Leagues?:
Louisville             
                         My favorite idea is Kentucky Downs football, though I realize NBA should be first.
No longer an issue with Las Vegas missing, though in line with my theme, sharing the team under the name West Coast with Seattle and/or Portland seemed more appropriate.  

The gaping market remaining in the NFL?:
Toronto
                         My favorite idea is Norde Force
For the MLB, at present I prefer the relocations or colocations of the Rays and A's.  In my blog I've talked about the West Coast A's and the Rays relocating to Charlotte or Montreal or even Monterrey.
Then maybe we can do a better, ore exponential expansion of two teams, like the North Country Lumberjacks (the 'Jacks).  Search the terms- I wrote about 'em.
List_of_American_and_Canadian_cities_by_number_of_major_professional_sports_franchises

Any out-of-the-box ideas?  


Any ideas for moves?

wikipedia /List_of_professional_sports_teams_in_the_United_States_and_Canada#Pecos_League

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D-League is Bigger

usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2016-11-11/nba-d-league-set-to-open-16th-season record-22-teams

Welcome in Charlotte, Chicago and Brooklyn.  Already NBA cities!!!

Could these have been cities without NBA???
 
I can't wait for America to be righted with a minor league system for the NFL.  Check out previous posts, to include for that subject.

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Try the travel Tag Team model in the Minor Leagues of Sports first

Geographic Twin Cities in Major Sports America. Some Thoughts on a Regional Brand Franchise

Let's say 32 Minor League Teams for NFL

NBA D-League and the Expansion of Basketball and Big Times

Want a Big League Team? Support Your Minor League Club

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Oklahoma Omaha Pilots as a MLB Expansion Team in Central Division

And not Omaha's first big league rodeo either.

They were part of the NBA's Kings.  Before Sacramento,...in history they were in Rochester to Cincinnati to Kansas City.  And with Kansas City, they played regular season games in Omaha and St. Louis and were called the Kansas City-Omaha Kings.  I'm for bringing back such a motif.

Would this be a good format for baseball?  What about the Oklahoma(City)-Omaha Pilots?  They could even sport jerseys every once in awhile that have Midland written across the front, especially in special games played near oilfields like the Bakken in the Dakotas.

Would it not be neat?  Would it not combine the power of two less-than-optimal markets together for a 40 games each home (camp) game split?  Yeah sure, the KC Royals baseball team wouldn't like this, as it surely would steal some fans, mostly outside of Kansas.  To me, this is the most viable team in the middle of America, whereas there is argument for franchise viability nearer the coasts like Charlotte, Portland and Sacramento.  San Antonio is argued but arguably lackluster for the numbers needed for practically daily games.  I have solutions for all this in my blog.  Rangers playing in San Antonio also as well as the California Angels partial birth up in Sacramento.  Stuff like that.  Or a West Coast (Port-Las Vegas) or East Coast (Mon-Char?) combos.

 Whatta' ya' think for Midland America?  See more:

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

But yeah, if I were the MLB Dictator and we were expanding by four teams, I'd still expand first world North America before getting into the likes of Monterrey.  And I'd do all the cities I mentioned and more.

 

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Put the Foot in Football and a Leg Up on the Markets

I have two points.  Ties in football suck.  And having some deserving markets without a big time team also sucks.

Have a kick-off,...or should I say field goal off.

Put the foot in football.  Move the ball back, mano y mano.  Sudden death miss that doesn't match.  Settles that, now doesn't it.


And my theme:

Combine cities for a Franchise 

Let's say the Raiders leave Oakland.  They could split time as the West Coast Raiders in Las Vegas and Portland or Sacramento or some such.  A town can handle a (home-camp) game per mont.  If a market would actually fail, it could retract to another town or just to one market, conventionally.  Fail in Vegas or Portland?  Move to Louisville for the Kentucky Downs.  Once a week (every two weeks actually) fills the seats.



My favorite combo cities for football are mentioned in these:

Another Canadian MLB Franchise? Vancouver Athletics and Raiders? And the Norde Force Canadian NFL Team

Big League Expansion without increasing Number of Franchises. Definite No Doubts 

 I do it for many sports and towns throughout the blog.

I know, I know, but still no.  I see her true colors.

Not even to take one for the team.