Why New York has more SPORT TEAMS than any other city or state??
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The only city with at least two franchises in all four sports is New York, which is both the largest city and the largest metropolitan area in the country. Five of the metro area's nine major-sports franchises play outside the city limits: the NFL's Jets and Giants, the NBA's Nets, and the NHL's Devils all play in New Jersey; the NHL's Islanders play in Long Island. However, all teams retain "New York" in their name except the Devils and Nets.\n\nSource: Wikipedia\n\nMy .02:  It's the biggest metro in the country.
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It's not the size of the town, but how far the teams can draw players from. For example, a Jr D. team (Lucan, Exeter, Lambeth) can only have "X" amount of import players (players from outside of a designated area. Jr. C teams can have more, Jr. B more and Jr. A even more. \n\nUsually the size of the town does determine what level of team they have, but not always. Owen Sound is 20,000 and has a Jr. A and B team. St. Thomas has 34,000 and has a B team.\n\nAs of next year, there will be no more Jr. D and they will merge with Junoir C.\n\nBack in the day, Junoir D used to be for young kids who are developing, but lately it's just a mix of everything.
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The relative popularity of sports is often measured in terms of how many people watch the game or are fans of it, not how many Americans play the various sports.\n\nThrough most of the 20th century, the big four have been considered baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. They were usually in that order, but there are many regional and local differences across the US. There are football schools, basketball states, hockey towns, etc. Baseball was called the national pastime. \n\nSoccer has become increasingly popular in the US. It is, by far, the most popular sport played (and watched) around the world. For Americans in the 1980s and 1990s it was considered something young kids played. But more and more older children and adults are playing the game. \n\nGolf, bowling and tennis are very popular. \n\nOne of the biggest movers in 2005 was Ki-o-Rahi. This sport originates from New Zealand. It is a fast and exciting full contact ball sport which is played on a large circular pitch. Recently our National Curriculum Directors introduced it into over 30,000 schools. It is like no other sport in the world for its mental and physical requirements.It requires great co-ordination, physical conditioning and quick intelligence.
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Really interesting question.  Thinking about it, sports really do serve as a vehicle to bridge cultural gaps.  By participating in the same leisure activites, it lets people from different cultures realize that maybe they are not too different.  In addition, fans respect great players of the games they follow regardless of where they live or come from; during international events (ie Olympics) or by having international players on local teams, people become more interested in the personal stories of these players and thus more interested/more accepting of other cultures.
740635
Dallas and Houston have both had MLB teams for decades.\n\nThere are also many minor league teams in the state.
309518
New York has become a world class event, thanks in large part to the great Fred Lebow (God rest his soul).  But Boston still has history and tradition on it's side so I'll still say Boston.
998975
The main reason why Football is not as popular in the US is because of money.\nThere is no $$$ in football. All the games aired on TV, get a ton of sponsors/marketing/advertising because there are many intervals during the game, like basketball, american football and baseball. But in football there is only one interval of 15 minutes during more than 90 minutes of game time.\nAlso, America already has 3 Major sports, i.e, American Football, Baseball and Basketball. \n\nThe game will only catch on once more money comes into the sport, so more colleges can offer scholarships and the soccer leagues can offer more pay, and this is all possible only if there is more sponsorship/marketing.
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It's to give the weaker teams in the league a chance to improve by getting some of the best young players coming out of the colleges.\n\nThis will help to create some balance in the league and thus help improve attendence in the various cities because no one wants to see their team finishing at or near the bottom of the league every season.
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I see your point, and perhaps it's time they just change their names, but the location of the games does not determine the area they chose to represent.\nThe Giants and Jets rent the stadium known as Giants Stadium, or the Meadowlands if the Jets are home. However, this is primarily due to financial reasons that make it more profitable to play in Jersey while not actually becoming a Jersey team due to tradition of the teams' names. Remember, neither the Giants nor the Jets own the stadium; they just rent it from the NJ Sports and Exposition Authority. It's cheaper to do that than to try and build a new stadium somewhere in NYC.
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I think it's a lack of understanding of the sport (not just general stupidity) in a combination of big city, snob culture and high cost of living. They're not stupid, they're just not good fans.\n\nI grew up in Buffalo, NY. Home of the Sabres. Buffalo NY is(was) mostly a blue-collar, working-class city. It's not unusal to have families that have lived in Buffalo for many generations. Buffalonians are pragmatic, down-to-earth and just not fussy; part of the reason that the Buff is called "The City of No Pretentions" and It's full of loyal, die-hard fans, who support their teams, winning or losing. It's full of people who understand winter and winter sports and grew up watching hockey (watching hockey is a skill, and without being able to watch it well, hockey's no fun. hockey on TV is even harder to watch). It takes patience.\n\nThen I went away to school in Maryland. And I lived in and worked in and watched hockey in D.C. The difference between DC and Buffalo, well....\n\nD.C. has a large transient population, due to all the folks working in government, so there's also no sense of place or roots. There's also a lot of self-important people who think they are the only ones that matter. It is a place full of impatient people who rarely take the time to look at anything that isn't going to make them a profit, etc.\nAs a whole, if a team isn't winning, no one is interested, because they just don't like a loser (like politics). Everyone loves the Caps when they're winning, but they all sort of turn their backs when they are not. True with basketball and football, too. \n\nAs for understanding winter sports, D.C. also has no real winter (you should see those idiots TRY to drive in the snow). \n\nIn addition, the costs of going to the Verizon Center are ridiculous, even for nosebleed seats. Granted when the new owner of the Caps took over, he tried to lower prices so that families could afford to go, but they were still pretty high, especially if you needed to park  downtown or even if you took the metro system in. And if you wanted to eat at the arena, too. A middle-class family of four would be out close to 200 dollars or so.\n\nNow typically, the people who can afford to go to the games are doing pretty well for themselves, which means they are most likely college-educated. So technically, no they are not "uneducated" in that sense of the word. I think they are uneducated in the sense of what a true hockey fan should be.
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Unfortunately both Florida teams have to go, maybe, just maybe they could be merged into one team and put in Orlando if MLB is so dead set on having a team in that state.\n\nI don't thing the fact that there are more teams in one league than another has anything to do with anything.  The talent pool is the talent pool.\n\nMore expansion?  PLEASE NO!  MLB has proven incapable of picking cities for new teams.\n\nMarlins would be my first choice of a team to be contracted.
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Probably because it's relatively easy to play.  Only a ball is needed, and no other specialized equipment, so even children in poor countries can afford to play it, which builds its popularity.  It doesn't hurt that the teams are large and everyone gets involved, either.
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I feel it may have to do with a cultural thing.  \n\nFootball, basketball, and baseball have tradition and roots in the American culture.  As a result, much time has been invested in promoting the sport, attracting and recruiting talent, and incorporating technology to advance the sport.\n\nI feel that soccer is relatively new to America.  The soccer fan base is probably not as solid and committed with, say, the basketball group.  But then again, all this can change as more exposure of this sport is made in the media, and popular events like FIFA and the Olympics take place.
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Absolutely behind u on that.Some of these smaller cities have but one news paper,so naturally NY would dominate.Besides there is a lot of money behind them and they want to keep their jobs.It has been biased from day one.If these smaller franchise could spend money on players like the Yankees have, they wouldn't have won all those championships.
517667
It depends on how good they are. Some of the best play with the national teams. There is a professional league that is becoming more popular. I went to a game last summer and there were a ton of people there.
311225
I would have to agree with you in a way. NY sports should be in NY, although, where would you propose this stadium go? I do think that NY sports should start leveraging available land and subway lines in Queens and Brooklyn.
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because it is more of a foreign sport than football or basketball or baseball.