# One City. Two Sports. Two Teams. Two Championships. One Season. Ever Happened? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 20, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793 "2005-01-20T21:45:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/1 "2005-01-20T21:45:47Z")
The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. The New England (Boston) Patriots have a pretty good shot at winning the Super Bowl. If the Patriots win the SB, would that be the first time that two sports teams from one city have won their sports’ championships in the same 12-month period? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/2 "2005-01-20T21:47:12Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > If the Patriots win the SB, would that be the first time that two sports teams from one city have won their sports’ championships in the same 12-month period? Nope. The Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2004, and the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004. I’ll see if I can come up with others. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/3 "2005-01-20T21:55:40Z")
I can’t find that is has happend. However, the Detroit Pistons (defending NBA champs) and the Tampa Bay Lightning (most recent Stanley Cup champs) are owned by the same guy. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/4 "2005-01-20T21:56:43Z")
I believe that Pittsburgh did it in the late seventies or early eighties. Steelers won Super Bowl and the Pirates won the World series. At work, can’t google right now . . . ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/5 "2005-01-20T21:57:16Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Nope. The Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2004, and the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004. I’ll see if I can come up with others. [Here’s](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/statitudes/news/2001/01/28/double_titles/#list) a list compiled in 2001, so doesn’t include Boston. I’ll try to find a newer list. ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/6 "2005-01-20T21:58:19Z")
Offhand, the NY Rangers and Yankees both won in 1928. I’m sure there are others. The Patriots don’t actually play in Boston; Foxboro is 20 miles away. A lot of sports teams don’t play in the city they’re named after anymore. This strikes me as kinda cheating. (I mean, all of New England? The (former) California Angels? Golden State? Minnesota?) Are we doing TV market? If so, do the Islanders and Yankees count for the same year? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Sasquatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Sasquatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Sasquatch)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/7 "2005-01-20T22:03:57Z")
'86 NY Mets & NY Giants (86-87 Season) ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/8 "2005-01-20T22:04:03Z")
> [@dasgupta](#): > > [Here’s](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/statitudes/news/2001/01/28/double_titles/#list) a list compiled in 2001, so doesn’t include Boston. I’ll try to find a newer list. And the Giants (who made this list) play in New Jersey, rather close to the New Jersey Devils. Would that count for our purposes? See what I mean? ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rex_fenestrarum/32/7265_2.png) [@Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Fenestrarum)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/9 "2005-01-20T22:04:13Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > The New England (Boston) Patriots have a pretty good shot at winning the Super Bowl. No they don’t. HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO!!! ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/10 "2005-01-20T22:17:00Z")
1969 - New York Mets and the New York Knicks ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/11 "2005-01-20T22:18:12Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Nope. The Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2004, and the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004. I’ll see if I can come up with others. I knew that. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/12 "2005-01-20T22:31:47Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > 1969 - New York Mets and the New York Knicks No question on the Mets, but didn’t the Knicks win in '70? [Cite](http://www.redozone.addr.com/nbahistory.html) I suppose that raises the question of how we’re defining a ‘year’ - 12 consecutive months, or the same calendar year? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/13 "2005-01-20T22:41:40Z")
Mets and Jets won championships in 1969; Knicks won in 1970. So you had Met and Jets as simultaneous champions, and then, after the 1970 Super Bowl, Mets and Knicks. In the spring of 1936, the Detroit Tigers were the reigning baseball champs; the Detroit Lions, the reigning NFL champs; and the Detroit Red Wings the reigning Stanley Cup champs. Three champions within a year. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/14 "2005-01-20T23:22:37Z")
LA Dodgers and LA Lakers in 1988. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/15 "2005-01-21T00:05:19Z")
In England, the following cities/counties have done it in football (soccer)/cricket: [sub]note: where there’s one year, the football team won in the spring, then the cricket side won that fall. Two years, the cricket team won in the fall of the first year, the football team in the spring of the second year. Got that?[/sub] 1898 Sheffield United/Yorkshire (note: Yorkshire played some matches at Bramhall Lane, Sheffield in 1898) 1902/03 Yorkshire/Sheffield Wednesday (ditto) 1924 Huddersfield Town/Yorkshire (Yorkshire played just about everywhere in the 20’s) 1925 Huddersfield Town/Yorkshire (ditto) 1928 Liverpool/Lancashire (Lancashire CCC’s second home) 1947/48 Middlesex/Arsenal (London, of course) 1950/51 Surrey (split championship)/Tottenham Hotspur (London again) 1952/53 Surrey/Arsenal 1953 Arsenal/Surrey 1954/55 Surrey/Chelsea 1955 Chelsea/Surrey (Surrey was in the midst of winning seven championships in a row) 1968/69 Yorkshire/Leeds United 1971 Arsenal/Surrey ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/16 "2005-01-21T00:52:12Z")
> [@Si Amigo](#): > > I believe that Pittsburgh did it in the late seventies or early eighties. Steelers won Super Bowl and the Pirates won the World series. At work, can’t google right now . . . Yes. The Steelers won the 1979 Superbowl, and the Pirates the 1979 World Series (Sister Sledge - “We Are Family”, Willie Stargell, and quite possibly the ugliest uniforms ever worn in the World Series). ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/17 "2005-01-21T01:06:18Z")
I hope that this [http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/exhibits/online\_exhibits/dressed\_to\_the\_nines/uniforms.asp?league=NL&city=Brooklyn&lowYear=1916&highYear=1916&sort=year&increment=9](http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/exhibits/online%5Fexhibits/dressed%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fnines/uniforms.asp?league=NL&city=Brooklyn&lowYear=1916&highYear=1916&sort=year&increment=9) will be a good link, but if not, check out the Brooklyn Dodgers uniforms from 1916. They were checked. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/18 "2005-01-21T01:21:09Z")
In 1987 the Edmonton Oilers won the Stanley Cup. In the same year, the Edmonton Eskimos won the Grey Cup. During the 1980’s the Oilers and the Eskimos both won four championship titles. In the late 1980’s Edmonton actually changed its city slogan to “City of Champions” and had it placed on signs all over the place. Then of course, we started to suck. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/19 "2005-01-21T02:19:38Z")
I just want to say that I’ve never seen an entire OP fitted so compactly yet elegantly into a thread title. I’m impressed. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793/20 "2005-01-21T03:05:32Z")
> [@yabob](#): > > Yes. The Steelers won the 1979 Superbowl, and the Pirates the 1979 World Series (Sister Sledge - “We Are Family”, Willie Stargell, and quite possibly the ugliest uniforms ever worn in the World Series). I disagree. The orange unis the Orioles wore in that same World Series were just as ugly. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-city-two-sports-two-teams-two-championships-one-season-ever-happened/285793.md?page=2)