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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
9:08:00 AM EDT
Hearing Diamond in the Rough -- Shawn Colvin
MSNBC has a list of cities that are growing large enough to support a major-league sports team, and may one day steal one from some other city. Go, Omaha! Go, Boise!
Articles like this just make me giggle. I don't have enough interest in sports to actually care when one sport team moves to another area, and I grew up in LA, where all the sports teams were imported from somewhere else anyway (I mean, come on. Los Angeles Lakers? What the hell is that?), and which, of course, has had teams poached from it. It's the circle of life, people. Or the circle of people chasing idiotic amounts of money, which often looks like the same thing, especially when sports are involved.
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9:08:00 AM EDT
Hearing Diamond in the Rough -- Shawn Colvin
Oh, No! These Towns Will Steal Your Sports Teams!
MSNBC has a list of cities that are growing large enough to support a major-league sports team, and may one day steal one from some other city. Go, Omaha! Go, Boise!
Articles like this just make me giggle. I don't have enough interest in sports to actually care when one sport team moves to another area, and I grew up in LA, where all the sports teams were imported from somewhere else anyway (I mean, come on. Los Angeles Lakers? What the hell is that?), and which, of course, has had teams poached from it. It's the circle of life, people. Or the circle of people chasing idiotic amounts of money, which often looks like the same thing, especially when sports are involved.
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That Kobe Bryant line was less of a joke than I meant it to be. Teams in areas that are unattractive (for whatever reasons) will have problems bringing in free agents and draft choices. Eli Manning spurned San Diego... think the next Manning brother will be all pumped up to get pummelled in Boise?
Vancouver seemed like a good place to put an NBA team... booming economy, diversified fan base, only sport in town, etc... they just had a small problem: they couldn't sign a free agent, and their own players couldn't get out of Vancouver fast enough.
Toronto is one of the more cosmopolitan cities in North America... but Alonzo Mourning refused to report there, and Vince Carter forced them to trade him to, gulp, New Jersey.
Imagine them being shipped to Des Moines?
So... unable to attract superstar players, the teams get worse and worse. No one wants to pay to see them lose, so the fans stop coming. Once the fans start coming, it's only a matter of time before the team folds/moves.
Carolina is mentioned in that article. Carolina has a college hoop tradition that is unrivaled... and the Hornets left them for New Orleans... which had already lost a team to Utah (Utah Jazz? Be real).
The NFL will fly teams to Barcelona before they waste time/money/prestige trying to locate a team in Iowa. -
The Kitchener/Waterloo Blackebrries? It is to laugh.
Oh, by the way, shouldn't headline have begun, "Oh, Noes!"?
-Paul
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Kobe Bryant grew up dreaming of leading Manchester, NH to the NBA title.
10/17/06 2:26 PM