# I pit the local hockey team **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465 "2015-05-21T02:00:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/61 "2016-04-27T13:03:34Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > It must suck to be a Chicago sports fan … really suck … Yes, it tough when you have so many choices. Chicago Blackhawks (NHL) Chicago Bears (NFL) Chicago Cubs (MLB) Chicago White Sox (MLB) Chicago Bulls (NBA) Chicago Fire (MLS) Chicago Sky (WNBA) Probably should include: Chicagoland Speedway Chicago Yacht Club Racing several NCAA Division I schools Arlington International Racecourse Oh my! What’s a sports fan to do in the Chicagoland area? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/62 "2016-04-27T22:03:58Z")
With the Blackhawks out, we can pay proper attention to the White Sox exceptional start. I understand that there’s some other baseball team in the city that’s doing pretty well, too. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/63 "2016-04-27T22:16:25Z")
That is a good point. And at the risk of sounding like I support this pitting (I don’t), I do see about 6 months or so of being free from that dang-nabbit Chelsea Dagger whhoop-it-up: Dup-duh-dee-dup Duh-dee-dup Dup-dee-duh-dee-dup. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/64 "2016-04-27T22:39:28Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > [snip] … Oh my! What’s a sports fan to do in the Chicagoland area? 🙂 Indianapolis is just down the Interstate … [giggle]. Portland, Oregon is said to be the largest city to have only one major league sports team, the Trailblazers. Hell, they don’t even have a Pac-12 school like Salt Lake does, just unfair IMEIO. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/65 "2016-04-27T22:48:23Z")
I think San Antonio holds that record. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/66 "2016-04-28T01:35:10Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Portland, Oregon is said to be the largest city to have only one major league sports team, the Trailblazers. Back in my hitch-hiking days, I got a ride in Portland from a guy who hated the city, and was letting me know about it. Being a sports fan, and the Trail Blazers having won a championship just then, I asked him about the NBA team. “Yeah! That’s the problem!” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/67 "2016-04-28T12:49:38Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I think San Antonio holds that record. Going by population within the city limits, indeed it does. San Jose, CA is second, having only the San Jose Sharks. If one goes my metropolitan area - really a better measure of a sports market, since if you go by city limits you would conclude San Antonio is bigger than Boston, which is absurd - it’s a tight race between San Antonio, Portland, Sacramento and Orlando (the Magic) with San Jose qualifying only if you say it’s not in the same market as San Francisco, which, really, it is. What is interesting is that you have cities SMALLER than them with more teams. Indanapolis is by any measure smaller, but has both an NFL and NBA team. Milwaukee is smaller still, and has both a baseball and basketball team and sort of has an NFL team. New Orleans is smaller than that, and has a football and a basketball team. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/68 "2016-04-28T14:41:45Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Portland, Oregon is said to be the largest city to have only one major league sports team, the Trailblazers. I realize there might be some discussion of what constitutes a “major league sports team,” but the[Portland Timbers](http://www.timbers.com/) won the MLS cup last year and have sold out every home game at 22,000 seat Providence Park since their admission to the MLS (something around 90 consecutive sellouts). Their season ticket wait list is well over 10,000, which is astounding for any league in any sport, albeit in part a construct of the limited seating capacity at the venue. The broader point remains that Portland probably cannot support an NFL or MLB team. But we do have two major league sports teams. TA/RCTID ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/69 "2016-04-28T15:04:36Z")
> [@andros](#): > > The broader point remains that Portland probably cannot support an NFL or MLB team. But we do have two major league sports teams. If Buffalo and Green Bay can support NFL teams, Portland can. The population of the host city isn’t a huge deal in terms of the viability of an NFL franchise. With the right owner and a cooperative local government, you could have a very successful NFL team in Portland, _Maine_. It’s not whether Portland has the people to buy the tickets. It’s whether Portland has city councilors who will vote to buy an NFL team a shiny new stadium. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/70 "2016-04-28T20:25:46Z")
> [@andros](#): > > I realize there might be some discussion of what constitutes a “major league sports team,” but the[Portland Timbers](http://www.timbers.com/) won the MLS cup last year and have sold out every home game at 22,000 seat Providence Park since their admission to the MLS (something around 90 consecutive sellouts). Their season ticket wait list is well over 10,000, which is astounding for any league in any sport, albeit in part a construct of the limited seating capacity at the venue. > > The broader point remains that Portland probably cannot support an NFL or MLB team. But we do have two major league sports teams. > > TA/RCTID I stand corrected … thank you. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/71 "2016-04-28T21:28:08Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > If Buffalo and Green Bay can support NFL teams, Portland can. > > The population of the host city isn’t a huge deal in terms of the viability of an NFL franchise. With the right owner and a cooperative local government, you could have a very successful NFL team in Portland, _Maine_. > > It’s not whether Portland has the people to buy the tickets. It’s whether Portland has city councilors who will vote to buy an NFL team a shiny new stadium. Fair point. By “support” I mean politically as well as in terms of attendance. I’m not certain that Portlandians _would_ fill an NFL stadium (although a new Seattle-PDX rivalry is never a bad thing), but I’m _quite_ certain that we _will not_ support the construction of an appropriate venue and the long-term financial obligations that go with it. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/72 "2016-04-28T21:29:30Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > I stand corrected … thank you. Any day I get to evangelize is a good day. 😃 Hop the Bolt up here and I’ll take you to a game. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/73 "2016-04-29T03:14:26Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Any day I get to evangelize is a good day. 😃 > > Hop the Bolt up here and I’ll take you to a game. Maybe, that place creeps me out though … did the Failing Pedestrian Bridge fail yet? ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/74 "2016-04-29T13:14:32Z")
All this chatter about cities with a single team is fascinating, but let’s get back to the fact that the fuckass hockey team from Chicago has been eliminated! Hooray! ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/75 "2016-04-29T14:47:23Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Maybe, that place creeps me out though … did the Failing Pedestrian Bridge fail yet? It is still Failing, and will continue to be Failing. May it never fail. (I actually walk it pretty regularly.) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/76 "2017-04-21T02:50:14Z")
Time to revivify my zombie thread for a major announcement: the fucking local hockey team has been eliminated in 4 games in the first round! There will be no parade for these fuckasses. Trivia night at my usual pub will not be cancelled just so they can show these assholes playing hockey on TV. There will be no drunken idiots shouting in the streets celebrating a Stanley bowl. Woohoo!!! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/77 "2017-04-21T03:03:59Z")
Go Pens!!! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/78 "2017-04-21T12:35:19Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Go Pens!!! Guin? Is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/79 "2017-04-21T14:07:02Z")
Didn’t catch any of the Chi/Nash series - hope they don’t still play that annoying Chelsea Dagger shit. No Stanley Chalice for **Ponch**.☹ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465/80 "2017-04-21T14:51:53Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Didn’t catch any of the Chi/Nash series - hope they don’t still play that annoying Chelsea Dagger shit. No Stanley Chalice for **Ponch**.☹ Of course they do! The best part is Chelsea Dagger, precisely because it annoys the shit out of everyone but Hawks fans. Whoever found that song and suggested it is a fucking genius. Anyhow, well, that was a rather embarrassing end to the season. I actually didn’t watch any of the games, either, as I just wasn’t feeling it this year, despite the Hawks winning the conference. The plus side is now I don’t have the distraction of the playoffs while I’m working. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-local-hockey-team/720465.md?page=5)