The 10 worst sports cities...

[Bluemyboy]

only reason seattle should be up there is cause of the sonics issue. But in all fairness the city was forced into a position where it was either fork over A TON of money or give the team over to a man who was going to try and leave town.

Beyond that, they have multiple (pro and semi) baseball, basketball (maybe not soon), football, now soccer. d-1 schools with huge histories of championship sports.

Ownership around the Seattle area is amazing. well beyond the sonics. but that has been a joke for years. We'll get a team though, too big a market in Seattle for basketball to lay idle for too long.

Seattle has won championships
Seattle sells out sports venues
Seattle has many very good sports teams college and pro

No way they should even be close to that list.

but we can stop reading this list when we get to the part of Minnesota becoming a city.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Minnesota-City-Minnesota.html

 

[honzie]

How is Tampa Bay not on list?

 

[MinnesotaEconMajor]

How is Tampa Bay not on list?

Lightning and Bucs have won championships. Lightning didn't even enter the league until the 90s. Up until around the uni changes for the Bucs though, yeah they've been mediocre to awful. And the Devil Rays/Rays, enough said, although they are stuck in the same division as the Yanks/Sox.

 

[quantumleap]

I don't understand Denver - they have a solid homecourt for NBA

The Broncos sell out their games too and the Avs won the Cup a few years back and had plenty of fans following them. I don't understand that either. Maybe it's just some hack typing on a typewriter.

 

[5teamparlay]

8-22-08:

George Richards
Miami Herald sportswriter

Yep, We're the Worst

Congratulations, South Florida!
Forbes Magazine recently did a story calling our fair part of the world the worst American city to live in as a sports fan. San Diego is second, Indianapolis third.
The Forbes study is based on winning percentage of the pro teams in the area (the Canes' 5-7 season wasn't even included) compared to the price of tickets to see those teams.
Based on winning percentages alone, last year was rough. According to Forbes, South Florida's aggregate winning percentage of .400 was ranked 27th of the 29 major metro areas in this report (there was a major city whose pro teams were worse that ours last year? Where?)
To make matters worse, South Florida is paying a pretty penny to see such mediocrity in person, the average price for a family of four to see a game down here close to $300. Hey, it's their math, not mine.
Want to read more about our crummy state of sports? Click here.
Of course, there's always next year. I'm betting our combined winning percentage will be better next season (can the Dolphins go 1-15 again? The Heat can't be as crummy as they were last year, can they? Doubt it.) As far as the expensive tickets go, well, I don't see that changing very much. Maybe next year we'll only be No. 2. Or three. Whatever.
We're gunning for you San Diego!
And remember: Stay classy, San Diego.


August 22, 2008 |
<!-- technorati tags --><!-- post footer links -->