Which US city will get a Pro sports team first?

Which is most likely to happen first?

  • Seatte gets a basketball team

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  • Los Angeles gets a football team

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  • Las Vegas gets a sports team

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  • All 3 cities will never get a team

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I voted Las Vegas cuz it's really only a matter of time and Stern has said there will be no expansion for the NBA and I can only hope Silver smartens up and focuses on contraction.

I don't really think LA needs a football team or care to be honest. It's not an issue I hear raised a lot so it aint factor.
 
Have the Chargers move to LA and watch them continue to have one less home game per year when the Raiders come to town.
 
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The City of Oakland has bent over backwards for the Raiders. They let the Warriors go to SF. They will fight to keep the Raiders in Oakland
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I am from the east bay, I love the east bay, especially Oakland, but it doesn't make much economic sense to keep professional sports teams in Oakland. Technology has brought a ton of $$$$$ to the Silicon Valley, so much that the economic powerhouse of the bay area is really the Silicon Valley, the East Bay doesn't hold a candle to it, and even SF, is mainly just a tourist hub and entertainment focal point for the bay area. The best, brightest, and the richest, mainly are found in the Silicon Valley. As the 49ers did with Santa Clara, it makes a lot of sense for most teams to move to the Silicon Valley (economically.) The A's should do it, and I could see the Raiders doing it too. I go too a lot of A's games and Raiders game and NOTHING is going on in the surrounding areas of the coliseum, it's really sad. Would love to see them expand Jack London, but I just don't see the rich guys from the South Bay making their way up. Sad too cause the East Bay has the BEST fans anywhere, the ones that do come out and support, but numbers wise, the A's and Raiders have some of the lowest attendance ratings of all sports teams in the country, because none of the band wagon, casual fans come out.......teams need that to stay in business.
 
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I am from the east bay, I love the east bay, especially Oakland, but it doesn't make much economic sense to keep professional sports teams in Oakland. Technology has brought a ton of $$$$$ to the Silicon Valley, so much that the economic powerhouse of the bay area is really the Silicon Valley, the East Bay doesn't hold a candle to it, and even SF, is mainly just a tourist hub and entertainment focal point for the bay area. The best, brightest, and the richest, mainly are found in the Silicon Valley. As the 49ers did with Santa Clara, it makes a lot of sense for most teams to move to the Silicon Valley (economically.) The A's should do it, and I could see the Raiders doing it too. I go too a lot of A's games and Raiders game and NOTHING is going on in the surrounding areas of the coliseum, it's really sad. Would love to see them expand Jack London, but I just don't see the rich guys from the South Bay making their way up. Sad too cause the East Bay has the BEST fans anywhere, the ones that do come out and support, but numbers wise, the A's and Raiders have some of the lowest attendance ratings of all sports teams in the country, because none of the band wagon, casual fans come out.......teams need that to stay in business.
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Idk why you're putting the Silicon Valley on a pedestal. Yea the Silicon Valley is an economic powerhouse but San Francisco is still the regions economic hub. To say San Francisco is mainly just a tourist/entertainment hub is wrong. There are nearly as many tech and information jobs in the city of San Francisco as there are in the Silicon Valley. 

Entertainment business in the Bay Area is not dependent on rich guys from the South Bay. Hell, Santa Clara County isn't even in the top three when it comes to income per capita. There's more disposable income in San Francisco and Marin than there is in the South Bay but really, there's loooooooooong money everywhere, including Oakland/the East Bay.

The Niners didn't move to Santa Clara because it made so much more economic sense to be in the Silicon Valley vs SF, they moved because it made economic sense to finance a brand new state of the art stadium, and the only alternative offered by the city of SF was literally a toxic wasteland. 

Yes I know their headquarters are down there but a shiny new stadium was the economic incentive, not the physical location. 

East Bay teams have never and will never be reliant on the South Bay for attendance. A's and Raiders see terrible attendance figures because they play in a dump. If you build it they will come, not that winning ever hurt anybody. 
 
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nba messed up big time with seattle should moved the hornets one more time , new orleans wouldnt have even missed them.
 
NFL not gonna add another team and who's gonna move to LA? Raiders? Chargers? Jags?

I would lmfao if the Raiders went back to LA :lol:
 
Law3001 said:
NFL not gonna add another team and who's gonna move to LA? Raiders? Chargers? Jags?

I would lmfao if the Raiders went back to LA
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jags would be the firs team to go but i could see oakland honestly with the 49ers there and al davis no longer running the team 
 
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KingKoopa said:
Someday the state of Kentucky will get some sort of professional representation.
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Isn't Louisville the biggest city with no big 4 pro teams? Seems odd they don't have an MLB squad :lol: I know they have the Reds affiliate though right?

Maybe it's so much of a college town with UL and some UK transplants tho


Oh and Vegas will NEVER, EVER get a pro team from a major sport...too much potential for a big scandal
 
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Louisville is like a 50 min drive from Cincinnati so that kind of hurts them. But he'll SoCal is stacked with teams so I have no idea why Louisville doesn't have anything.
 
I feel Seattle will get a nba & nhl tm 1 day. IMO if Charlotte can get the Hornets name back then I believe in Seattle getting a team back
 
Columbus is a pretty damn big city. They have an NHL team, tho

IMO that's such a college town that OSU would still over power any pro team
 
L.A. should get a football team, but I think they're just going to continue to be used as a bargaining tool for current NFL teams who scare the city into leaving.

Def no expansion team in L.A., needs to be a move. I just don't know who.
 
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