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? 
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.
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.
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.
I think San Antonio holds that record.
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!”
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.
I realize there might be some discussion of what constitutes a “major league sports team,” but thePortland Timbers 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
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.
I stand corrected … thank you.
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.
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?
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!
It is still Failing, and will continue to be Failing. May it never fail. (I actually walk it pretty regularly.)
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!!!
Go Pens!!!
Guin? Is that you?
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.