What kind of a sports town do you live in? Most people say that Washington, DC, where I live, is a football town, obsessed with the Redskins, but since baseball came back we’ve loved the Nationals. 
Tel Aviv is very much a basketball town in a soccer country.
I live in Omaha, Nebraska. Husker football is the state religion here. Tom Osborne, the longtime successful coach, retired and was given two terms in the House of Representatives based on his delivery of three college football national championships. He came very close to becoming governor in the last election.
I find it absurd, but then I am not a sports fan.
Keep in mind that I am an outsider and not really that tied to sports when I say this.
I live in the Boston area and I think that Boston is the undesputable sports champion with Chicago perhaps an arguable second and New York maybe fighting for second place with Chicago. Boston has all four major sports represented with a big legacy for all. The New England Patriots and Boston Red Soxhave obviously been a huge force in the NFL in recent years.
However, Boston is a baseball town in a major way. I don’t like baseball all that much so I get confused when the Patriots are doing outstandingly well yet the Red Sox dominate the news. I am not used to being a baseball dominated town even when other sports like football, the most nationally popular, are doing better.
Chicago is a Bears town. If we didn’t have two baseball teams it might be a Cubs town, but the Bears are top dog.
I live in a college town from a major conference (Big XII) so we have every kind of sport imaginable. That said the football and basketball teams are horrid, but even when they are good, support is weak.
Spectator sports just don’t rule the day here - participatory sports like running, cycling, golf and skiing are what people get excited about.
In the greater metropolitan area, the Denver Broncos rule the town, but all major sports are well attended and have big fan bases. Denver is (I think) the smallest town to have all four major professional sports teams (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA) and still is able to support pro soccer, pro lacrosse, indoor football, and two minor league teams (hockey and basketball).
Tokyo has a slight thing for baseball, one could say…
You think football overrides? I dunno - I think Chicago is a HUGE sports-in-general city.
To be fair, I grew up in a rabid sports household, and my brothers’ social lives almost completely revolve around sports (and there’s a distinct Southside bias - I never got the impression the Cubs were anything much, whereas the Sox were The Real Deal.) I’m more into football than any other sport, but Chicago baseball, basketball and hockey fans seem to be pretty even with Bears fans for sheer devotedness.
Denver is a football city. Period. Yes, there is a contingent of fans of other sports that are not the fairweather variety, but when all is said and done, it’s a Broncos town.
I’m all fired up for a stimulating debate, but can’t really find one. Frank, little help?
I was thinking about this after I posted. I’ll move this so tom doesn’t get pitted for a war on sports.
Moved from GD to IMHO.
Give 'em back, you thieving bastards!
Montreal. We’re a hockey town. Did you even need to ask?
My town in Rutland has 12,000 people.
We have a soccer team, a rugby team and a cricket team.
I remember a crowd of several hundred for a Rugby Sevens event…
Well here in Columbia, all we’ve really got is the Mizzou Tigers. I go there and could not care less, even about football.
In St. Louis, it’s all about the Cardinals. Rams, eh, when they are doing well people get into it more. Same with the Blues. But everyone is into the Cardinals it seems, especially with the new stadium and that wonderful World Series win. 
Football. For a smallish town, we manage to get well over 20,000 at matches. 28,000 yesterday.
And there’s a much smaller but very loyal and longstanding speedway contingent, too.
Fairweather. I was a Chargers fan in 2000 (1-15, remember?). I hung on every fourth-quarter meltdown, while everyone I knew rooted for the Denver Broncos. Once the Chargers became good again in 2004, the Broncos fans mysteriously fell through a magic portal and disappeared, and out came the legions of diehard Chargers fans with lightning-bolt hats. You can tell the ones who used to root for the Broncos because they’re trying really hard to convince you they’ve been Chargers fans since they were kids.
Generally, though, I’d say this is a baseball town. Padres fans are more loyal to the Padres. San Diego has produced a lot of baseball talent and continues to be a hot spot for major league scouting. It’s only fitting given that this town is stuck in an endless summer. Basketball has been tried here over and over again (the Rockets and the Clippers started here, plus a big handful of bush-league teams that folded or moved after a couple of years) and it’s never worked; and it never will work because there’s no reason to go inside on a Friday night in November.
Soccer is bigger here than it is in a lot of this country. San Diego has produced a number of national team players, including Steve Cherundolo (La Jolla Nomads youth club) and Bobby Convey (San Diego State University) on the current men’s team and Julie Foudy and Shannon MacMillan of international women’s soccer history.
Hockey had a niche following and a storied minor league team here for a long time–Willie O’Ree, the first black player in the NHL, played for the San Diego Gulls–but that’s gone. The team has folded and I don’t ever meet hockey fans here anymore.
Back to whom? There aren’t actually any baseball fans in Montreal.
The small town I live in has a NCAA division I hockey team(Ferris) whereas the other sports are not division I.Hockey gets the large crowds when the bigger schools come to play like U of M, MSU and Notre Dame.Ferris went to the Frozen Four tourney a few years ago and the town was all agog.They aren’t doing so good this year tho.
Soccer. During the World Cup, fans of particular teams drive all around town honking horns and waving flags when their teams win. Same thing if Panama wins any international match, or for that matter doesn’t lose too badly. There was a major celebration when Panama lost to the US, but put up a good fight.
Baseball is second, but people don’t celebrate in the streets about it. People follow the national championships between local teams. Internationally, nearly everybody is a Yankee fan because Mariano Rivera is Panamanian.
Cleveland is certainly Browns Town, despite inept management desperately trying to lose fans going on more than half a decade now. Historically it wasn’t even remotely close - everything was second to the Browns. More recently, people are becoming apathetic towards a consistently pathetic franchise, but there are still many, many die hards (myself included) that fervently support the load of mostly asshats currently wearing the burnt orange and seal Brown.
Even having one of today’s premier athletes (Lebron) hasn’t swung it too much, although the town is nuts about him of course.
Strangely enough, the Browns enjoy fairly widespread hardcore support in little pockets all over the place. The Browns Backers fan club is the largest sports fan organization of any type in the world - with chapters from Cleveland to Cairo. Why, I’m not sure - some of it is probably passed down generationally back from the decade or so that Cleveland owned professional football.
If I say Dallas, you’ll say Cowboys. Football dominates Dallas, TX. Basketball is second with the recent success of the Mavericks. The TX Rangers and the Dallas Stars are clearly second tier attractions here. Rodeo is also big.