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Its clearly Pittsburgh. You should have added it to the poll.
Pittsburgh has an identity. It’s the Steel City, CMU/Pitt, Rivers, Hills etc, If you expand it to fewer than 4 team cities Cincinnati, Kansas City, Jacksonville, Indianapolis are cities that people generally know nothing at all about beyond their pro teams.
In fact if you bring up the Pirates the first thing anyone will say is “PNC Park has a great view of the city”. Not anything about actual Baseball.
Pittsburgh has an identity. It’s the Steel City, CMU/Pitt, Rivers, Hills etc, If you expand it to fewer than 4 team cities Cincinnati, Kansas City, Jacksonville, Indianapolis are cities that people generally know nothing at all about beyond their pro teams.
In fact if you bring up the Pirates the first thing anyone will say is “PNC Park has a great view of the city”. Not anything about actual Baseball.
Maybe outside of Pittsburgh they would say that about the pirates.
Here they would say, "We still have 5 world series, how many does your city have?"
"Its bull**** we aren't winning and haven't for a long time, our other teams are so successful"
Yeah, but, in fairness to OP, the qualifying cities all had at least one team in all of the following: NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL. The Monsters have yet to be promoted to the NHL...if there was European soccer style-promotion and relegation of major league and minor league teams in NHL/AHL, the Sabres would be getting relegated to the AHL and maybe the Monsters would be getting promoted, IDK (would have to check AHL standings from this past year, heh). Great team name though, definitely better than that of the only AHL team I know, the Sabres' affiliate Rochester Americans...so boring compared to Monsters
ETA: Charlotte Checkers earn promotion based on their regular season record! Syracuse Crunch too if we're letting a 2nd team up...bunch of teams in the west only played 68 games rather than 76 though...asterisk needed, here
Strongly disagree, those cities are far more famous than their teams.
Places like Winnipeg, Jacksonville, Green Bay, Maybe even Cincinnati are basically known for their teams and their teams only.
Many small market teams save New Orleans and Salt Lake City are in this box.
I would say Chi and Bos could fit that too, despite being massive cities. Sports are massive on both cities' image. Many people abroad only know Chicago because of MJ and the Bulls.
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