Not really,I was just figuring that Buffalo would get their own baseball and basketball teams by the time the Lions manage to do anything productive…along with a new NFL team once the Bills relocate.
Ooh, look, trash talking. From Arizona. That’s awesome and kinda cute, isn’t it, Hal?
Lions fans will frequently say “no other team knows the misery we do”
Then someone will reply “what about the Cards?” and we’re forced to answer “ok, I’ll give you that one”
It will be awesome when the Cards take down the Giants and the Jets. We’re also taking down the Patriots and the Eagles.
Except that the AFL Yankees didn’t win that league, and it can be argued that the AFL was rougly equivalent to the NFL right up to the merger, can’t it?
Not true. I’ve lived in Arizona. They’re all fairweather fans. Unless by “misery” you mean “apathy”, in which case my rejoinder would be the Chargers from 1999 to 2003. All those rabid Chargers fans you meet when you come to San Diego? They’re only so rabid because they were all Broncos fans until 2004. They’re compensating.
that may well be true, but I was thinking more about the overall futility of the franchise, not the fan’s feelings. My word choice didn’t do a very good job of making that clear. I was also thinking of the entire history of the Cardinals franchise, not just since they came to Arizona.
You really have no clue about the Minnesota/Wisconsin hatefest.
Let the cheeseheads get their own hockey team.
Going by Wikipedia the AFL that merged with the NFL was not formed until 1959. There was an unrelated AFL in 1926 but it only lasted one season before failing. The Yankees switched over to the NFL in 1927.
Yep. Typical Cards fan: no concept of what real sports fans think of rival teams, since he has no rival teams. He has absolutely no grasp of the kind of bile you get from San Diegans when you try to lump us in with LA. There’s a reason we live in San Diego. (A lot of them, actually.)
It really is…it reminds me of the way my daughter will spout out these adorable sentences which are grammatically correct, but which make no actual sense in the real world. I put “It will be awesome when the Cards take down the Giants…” in the same category as “…and then Boots 'n Dora are gonna come back to my house and I’ll have to help them get over the bridge and then I’ll get an ice pop!”
I know the Cardinals beat the Steelers last year at home and the 2008 NY Giants aren’t as good right now as the 2007 Steelers. If Strahan doesn’t come out of retirement, the Giants are really going to be hurting.
I always wonder why, in these discussions, hockey is considered a major sport. It doesn’t seem to be any more popular than Major League Soccer or arena football. Hell, you could probably make the case that indoor lacrosse isn’t too far behind hockey in popularity.
The NHL is the fifth large sports league in the world, let alone North America, by revenue. MLS, arena football and lacrosse don’t come anywhere close.
I think the PGA tour and NASCAR are probably more popular than the NHL in most of the United States. However, I think the NHL is clearly the 4th most popular team sport.
If you go by just ticket sales, maybe (although I have a feeling hockey is probably ahead of MLS there), but it has extensive coverage on a cable channel most people get (Vs.) and a lot of non-hockey fans watch (the MMA crowd and the outdoorsy shootin’ types); it gets much more play on SportsCenter; it’s way closer to the front of the sports section in the newspaper; the Stanley Cup is way more entertaining and way more widely watched than the MLS final; etc.
ETA: Just so you know I’m not biased, I’m a much bigger soccer fan than hockey fan. I can’t name the top five [del]strikers[/del] forwards in the NHL, f’rinstance, and I don’t think I watched a single non-playoff hockey game last season, but I did watch all kinds of soccer games from all kinds of leagues and tournaments. That wasn’t always the case, but my point is that I’m not exactly the NHL’s biggest fan or anything.
Hold on there, bucko. How about Atlanta? We have the Braves!
And the, um, Falcons.
And the…Hawks.
and the Thrashers…
Well, I guess we’ve proven that one city can have shitty teams in all four major pro sports leagues 
Ouch. Sorry. And I mean it. Normally I just give heat to non-Chicago sports fans but nobody this side of Detroit deserves that kind of sports misery.
It’s all cyclical anyway, right? And it’s always darkest before the dawn… rub some dirt on it…
…uh… I know where to get Prozac cheap.
How about a different take on the question? Which cities have championships in all 4 major sports? Baltimore has titles in 3- NBA Bullets in '48, NFL Colts in '58, '59, '68 and '70, Ravens in '00 and MLB Orioles in '66,'70 and '83, but we’ve never had an NHL franchise, so we lack a title there. What cities have done all four?
Let’s see:
'61 Hawks, '85 Bears, take-yer-pick-of-almost all the '90s Bulls, '05 White Sox
And I think that other baseball team in town won one in the early 20th…must check the archives on that.
It almost doesn’t count, we almost always get charter teams here in Chicago so we’re sure to get titles by default. And sometimes it seems ONLY by default.
If we are including pre Super Bowl titles Philadelphia qualifies.
Philadelphia
Phillies in 80, Sixers multiple times, Eagles in 60, and Flyers in the 70s.
Also:
New York (Rangers/Islanders, Giants/Jets,Yankees/Mets,Knicks)
Chicago (Blackhawks, Bulls, White Sox, Bears)
If we include teams not exactly in the geographic areas:
Boston
Los Angeles (Is Anaheim as close to LA as the Patriots are to Boston? If so, it can count.)