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LOL too bad the sports teams from all of those cities (except for maybe the Cowboys, and even then..) aren't anything to write home about performance wise.
It really depends on what sports you watch and what part of the country you are from. I quit watching NFL and NBA years ago and never watched baseball. In the Southeast it is all about college football. I thought Tuscaloosa, Alabama was the most relevant sports city. lol
Strictly from a pro sports perspective: Boston/NY/Philly/Chicago at the top in any order. SF/OAK, Pitt, St. Louis, Detroit tier 2. Seattle, KC, DC/Baltimore, ATL tier 4 and then everyone else. Dallas and LA are laughable to even be considered.
I grew up in Boston, have lived in LA for 12 years, lived in Bay Area and DC area for a couple of years, have family in FL and Chicago so spend plenty of time in those areas and spent plenty of time in NY as well so I have some perspective.
Boston/NY/Philly/Chicago fans are the only that I know that following and talking about teams year round. In December people are talking about the Red Sox, Yankees, Phillies, Mets, Cubs and following winter meetings, trades, free agency etc. In the summer people are talking Pats, Jets, Giants, Eagles, Bears and following draft, summer work outs, training camp etc.
In LA people don't even follow teams in season unless they are in first place. When I moved to LA the only team that mattered was USC football because they were one of the top teams every year. Now nobody but USC alum care about USC football. We now have two NFL teams that nobody cared about until the second half of this year when it was obvious that the Rams would make the playoffs then all of the sudden everyone was a Rams fan. Nobody knows anything about hockey here but if the Kings get past the first round of the play offs you start seeing those stupid Kings flags on people's cars. But I dare you to go up to someone with a Kings t shirt on and ask them what the blue line is because they'll look at you like you have two heads. The Dodgers have gained some popularity again over the last couple of years because they have been a contender. But when the Dodgers sucked for about 2 months after the all star break last year the fans went back into hibernation until they started winning again. The Lakers have a decent fanbase because of history. The Clippers have been better then the Lakers for years and still have no fans in LA
This poll would make more sense if it asked "Is Cowherd a pandering moron?" If he just wanted to cover regions, Miami and maybe even Houston might be a better representative. I get that the Cowboys have 5 championships and are a big national brand, but the Spurs have won 5 and no one thinks of SA as a primary sports city.
He should just admit he wants the same 4 teams to be good because everyone has a extreme reaction one way or another for or against it.
Has the OP ever heard of this city called Boston ? Each of their 4 major sports teams has won at least 1 championship this century, and three of the 4 have won multiple championships this century . What a stupid post.
Has the OP ever heard of this city called Boston ? Each of their 4 major sports teams has won at least 1 championship this century, and three of the 4 have won multiple championships this century . What a stupid post.
Read the first post. He is only reporting on a stupid story by a guy who is AFAIC on steroids--that would be Colin Cowherd. And I'm glad the OP addressed this story.
Cowherd got his rep from his career on ESPN-he has been with Fox Sports 1 for a while now. I check in from time to time on the "bantering gasbag gabfests" as I call it--that would be ESPN's Around The Horn and Pardon The Interruption. You also have this type show on Fox with Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless. I hadn't heard anything about this at all from these three shows or Dan Patrick and on occasion I listen late night to NBC Sports Radio as well.If they have reported on this story, well, I missed it. I should be thankful for THAT!
Boston as a sports market? Heh, it'll be forever when an NBA club will have a title run like the Celtics did from the mid 1950's to 1969. Then when they had to rebuild they were back again in 1976, winning the title over the Phoenix Suns in one of the best NBA best of seven finals I ever saw. And then you had those great clubs of the 1980's.The Patriots? As impressive a run on championships you can possibly have. The Red Sox. A quality franchise--have won 3 World series since 2004. The Boston Bruins in hockey? In their history they have won 6 Stanley Cups, the most recent was 2011.
Has the OP ever heard of this city called Boston ? Each of their 4 major sports teams has won at least 1 championship this century, and three of the 4 have won multiple championships this century . What a stupid post.
I guess I should've included "Colin Cowherd says.....do you agree?" instead of people bashing me If it makes you feel better, he hates Philadelphia sports fans the most.
Maybe his whole intent is to say crazy things like this so we talk, and people investigate his show, and he gets better ratings. In real life, people I know hold him up to this grail of excellence in sports analysis, which I don't get at all.
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Read the first post. He is only reporting on a stupid story by a guy who is AFAIC on steroids--that would be Colin Cowherd. And I'm glad the OP addressed this story.
Cowherd got his rep from his career on ESPN-he has been with Fox Sports 1 for a while now. I check in from time to time on the "bantering gasbag gabfests" as I call it--that would be ESPN's Around The Horn and Pardon The Interruption. You also have this type show on Fox with Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless. I hadn't heard anything about this at all from these three shows or Dan Patrick and on occasion I listen late night to NBC Sports Radio as well.If they have reported on this story, well, I missed it. I should be thankful for THAT!
Boston as a sports market? Heh, it'll be forever when an NBA club will have a title run like the Celtics did from the mid 1950's to 1969. Then when they had to rebuild they were back again in 1976, winning the title over the Phoenix Suns in one of the best NBA best of seven finals I ever saw. And then you had those great clubs of the 1980's.The Patriots? As impressive a run on championships you can possibly have. The Red Sox. A quality franchise--have won 3 World series since 2004. The Boston Bruins in hockey? In their history they have won 6 Stanley Cups, the most recent was 2011.
I agree with everything you say. Its funny how FS1 was supposed to be this great alternative to ESPN, but they just ended up being the exact same thing
Boston as a sports market? Heh, it'll be forever when an NBA club will have a title run like the Celtics did from the mid 1950's to 1969. Then when they had to rebuild they were back again in 1976, winning the title over the Phoenix Suns in one of the best NBA best of seven finals I ever saw. And then you had those great clubs of the 1980's.The Patriots? As impressive a run on championships you can possibly have. The Red Sox. A quality franchise--have won 3 World series since 2004. The Boston Bruins in hockey? In their history they have won 6 Stanley Cups, the most recent was 2011.
I visited Boston in the early 2000s (before they won the series) and got the feeling it was a big baseball and hockey town. They'd even play minor league hockey on TVs in bars, and it being March people were really excited for the upcoming Red Sox season (even though it was still during the era of Yankee dominance). Didn't see or hear anything about the Patriots in that time. The Celtics are also only a big deal when they're winning.
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If it makes you feel better, he hates Philadelphia sports fans the most.
