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I have to agree with an earlier poster. Indianapolis is a great sports town. It hosts some nice sporting events for all flavors of sports fans. I personally prefer college and amateur sports over professional.
Come on man, take your homer glasses off for a moment.
I am from Chicago and have lived all over. Come for the St James art festival next week and I will show you why Louisville's neighborhood scene is superior to any mid sized city in this region.
To the Nashville poster, should I post the map that shows that city's sprawl and segregation? Face it. EVERY major city is segregated.
I have to agree with an earlier poster. Indianapolis is a great sports town. It hosts some nice sporting events for all flavors of sports fans. I personally prefer college and amateur sports over professional.
Then Louisville's college sport scene blows out this list. UofL (and even Bellarmine and Spalding in lower divisions) has athletic programs many times what the other cities in this poll have. Indy and KC are pro sports towns. Louisville wins handily in college sports. Nashville has a decent college sports scene with Vandy, but it is more of a pro town too.
Oh Plzzzzzzzz. Nashville is just as segregated as Louisville. As a matter of fact Kansas City, Nashville and Louisville are ALL more segregated than Indianapolis.
Indianapolis homers have a false sense of the importance of their city due to its excellent downtown. In reality the strength of a city lies in her neighborhoods. Both Louisville and Nashville crush Indy in that regard.
Indy is clearly on that list as one of the most segregated in America and it corroborates with the map I posted. Just recently on the Indy forum, the non homers were asking if Indy could be the next Ferguson. The reality is Ferguson can happen anywhere. If you think your city is immune to it, you are blind to the current state of America.
Louisville has five minor league professional and semi-professional teams.
Okay then, let's compare them all:
Louisville - 5 minor league teams
Indianapolis - 3 major pro teams and 3 minor ones for a total of 6
Kansas City - 3 major pro teams and 2 minor ones for a total of 5
Nashville - 2 major pro teams and 3 minor ones for a total of 5
I didn't include things like indoor soccer or rugby, which all of these cities have. I think they look fairly even when you add the extra stuff. The differences would come with things like college sports, Super Bowls or the Indy 500...things like that. I think each city has racing venues and Louisville has the largest college sports team with Nashville in second, but Indianapolis has the NCAA HQ.
Indianapolis homers have a false sense of the importance of their city due to its excellent downtown. In reality the strength of a city lies in her neighborhoods. Both Louisville and Nashville crush Indy in that regard.
Indy is clearly on that list as one of the most segregated in America and it corroborates with the map I posted. Just recently on the Indy forum, the non homers were asking if Indy could be the next Ferguson. The reality is Ferguson can happen anywhere. If you think your city is immune to it, you are blind to the current state of America.
Wow, what a load of bull. The strength of any city lies in the PEOPLE, not made structures with no soul unable to think or feel.
As far as segregation, all depends on the metric. For example, Indy and Lou very different feel for a black man. Indy on at least 70% of its streets give or take, you will find at least one black, one white, one Hispanic. Even the the over majority (white/black/Hispanics) hoods. Everyone commingles better than a lot of other areas. Lou from all the times I've been there is blacks stay in your place and whites keep everything else. Hopefully that has changed somewhat over the past 2 years.
Now an Indy resident liking its downtown (that just happens to engulf 6 residential hoods in its borders) so what. Get a better downtown then just like Indy is trying to redevelop its hoods downtown adjacent. You are harping neighborhoods so in essence doing the same thing accept reverse. Neither is right or wrong, it's preference. Those with families in the mw tend to not want to be in hoods with clubs and bars but rather trails and parks. Perfectly fine and makes sense to not have drunk staggering strangers out and about with children near. Young people want the urban vibe. Perfectly fine, they can stagger home. Each city provides both but saying one is better because you say so is just bulls#$t.
Louisville - 5 minor league teams
Indianapolis - 3 major pro teams and 3 minor ones for a total of 6
Kansas City - 3 major pro teams and 2 minor ones for a total of 5
Nashville - 2 major pro teams and 3 minor ones for a total of 5
I didn't include things like indoor soccer or rugby, which all of these cities have. I think they look fairly even when you add the extra stuff. The differences would come with things like college sports, Super Bowls or the Indy 500...things like that. I think each city has racing venues and Louisville has the largest college sports team with Nashville in second, but Indianapolis has the NCAA HQ.
In all fairness include everything. Indianapolis has 3 major pro teams and 5 minor pro team, 2 Division 1 college teams and 1 division 2 college team.
Major league teams:
(1) Indianapolis Colts
(2) Indianapolis Fever,
(3) Indianapolis Pacers
Minor league team:
(1) Indianapolis Indians (Int'l Triple A) Baseball
(2) Indy Eleven (NASL Div. 2) Soccer
(3) F.C. Indiana (WPSL Elite) Soccer
(4) Indianapolis Impalas (USA Rugby) Rugby
(5) Indy Fuel (ECHL Div. 3) Hockey
College:
Butler University Bulldogs (Div. 1)
Indianapolis University-Purdue University IUPUI Jaguars (Div. 1)
University of Indianapolis Greyhounds (Div. 2)
In all fairness include everything. Indianapolis has 3 major pro teams and 5 minor pro team, 2 Division 1 college teams and 1 division 2 college team.
Major league teams:
(1) Indianapolis Colts
(2) Indianapolis Fever,
(3) Indianapolis Pacers
Minor league team:
(1) Indianapolis Indians (Int'l Triple A) Baseball
(2) Indy Eleven (NASL Div. 2) Soccer
(3) F.C. Indiana (WPSL Elite) Soccer
(4) Indianapolis Impalas (USA Rugby) Rugby
(5) Indy Fuel (ECHL Div. 3) Hockey
College:
Butler University Bulldogs (Div. 1)
Indianapolis University-Purdue University IUPUI Jaguars (Div. 1)
University of Indianapolis Greyhounds (Div. 2)
Do you want to compare sports complexes?
I don't think smaller sports teams should count in a discussion like this, and I didn't honestly want to look up every little organized team in each of these cities...there are probably a lot that you didn't even list for Indianapolis.
The college teams for Indy are all smaller and none have a Division I football team - which is the gauge of bigtime college athletic programs. I would imagine Indy has the upper hand on venues and large sporting events like the Super Bowl and NCAA Final Four.
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