What kind of a sports town do you live in?

About the Rangers and Stars being not as popular, what about the Mavericks?

Westchester County, NY. Your fans hereabouts are blue-collar and family oriented. Pro and high school football, basketball and baseball, and a lot of after-work league baseball/softball. They’ll watch just about anything if it’s on at the bar, but I don’t think you’ll find a lot of loyalty to college sports, although a few Catholic Big East schools probably pull support during March Madness.

My apartment building must be home to a dozen curlers, probably because the local country club has a sheet.

Is Westchester County a Giants or Jets County? Must be hard to choose with two teams in nearly any sport. How do you decide, they seem the same to me.

If the Mavericks were a last place team, I doubt they’d be as popular.

At first I had a vision of hair products, before I realised you meant the ice sport! :slight_smile:

Melbourne is primarily a football town (Aussie Rules) but we are known for going quite mental over any sport. The iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground is home to both footy (every week during the ‘season’) and cricket (particularly the Boxing Day Test) and crowds of over 100k are commonplace (both for footy AND cricket).

Rugby and soccer are also getting some solid support here now too.

We also host the Australian Open (Tennis) and the F1 Grand Prix. In any given week the streets are awash with nutjob followers of the particular brand of sport being played.

Sucks a bit if you’re not all that into sports. :stuck_out_tongue:

Baltimore, which is both football and baseball.

Sadly, no hockey - I’m from Calgary (more or less) which is a hockey town.

I live in Waterloo, about an hour outside of Toronto. Despite what many may say, Toronto is not a hockey town – it’s Leafs town. The local minor-league and junior league teams have always gotten terrible attendence.

Today Chicago is football town. Tomorrow? Hard to say; it’s not even half-time.

And don’t be silly - Chicago is also a Cubs town. When the Sox won the World Series, most Chicagoans said: Really? Boston won again?

This summer, Chicago may be a basketball town again.

Sadly, Chicago will not be a hockey town anytime soon. :frowning:

I used to be an Orioles fan because there was no team in DC, but now I hate the Orioles, and I was only a fairweather fan when I kind of liked them. One of the reasons I hate them is because Peter Angelos, their owner, is an arrogant moron and a sore loser. Here in DC we couldn’t get most Nationals games because Peter Angelos said we were “invading into the Orioles fan market”. Well, most people in DC were only fairweather fans.

Who do you root for when you’re caught between to teams? For example, Who would Mississippi football fans root for, because you’re caught in between the Titans and Saints?

Also, I think that as successful as the Titans are now, I think they would get more fans out to the stadium if they moved out of Nashville and back to Memphis. Just sayin’.

Schenectady doesn’t have any favorite sport, or even a favorite team. You’ll find fans of all New York City teams (except maybe the Nets and Islanders), Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, and Buffalo Bills. The edge goes to Yankees, Giants, and Knicks, but none are the majority in their respective sport.

I came in to say exactly that. The level of support that minor league teams receive really disappoints me. My cousin is a prime example of this. She loves the Leafs but you can’t talk to her about hockey. I can’t tolerate “fans” like that.

I’m interested in seeing if this soccer experiment (Toronto FC) works once the initial novelty wears off.

One with a blood pressure through the damn roof.

Yes, it’s the New Orleans Saints we used to know and love. Where have you been all year?

Saving a city. If the Saints lose I’ll be waiting all remaining structures to just crumble.

Louisville is a college town. The University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky rule. As far as pro sports, the papers pay attention to the Cincinnati teams, although I get the feeling that that’s mainly because they don’t have anything better to do. It would appear that the Colts are getting some love from the papers now that they’ve decided to be really good; when I was younger and the Colts were nothing special, I can’t remember reading much about them. And we had the Triple-A affiliate for the St. Louis Cardinals for a long time, so there’s some St. Louis sentiments.

This may be irrelevant, but why does Memphis, Tennessee only have one major league sports team? You’ve already heard my argument for the Titans to move there, which wouldn’t be a bad idea because here you have a major city, the largest in Tennessee, with the nearest non-basketball teams in St. Louis, New Orleans, and Dallas. I hear they’ve been broadcasting St. Louis Cardinals games on West Tennessee radio stations to get people to come to the games, but who’s gonna come to games in a city that’s 243 miles (the exact distance between Memphis and St. Louis) away?

I’ve been to a few Orioles games (not on purpose, I am not a sports fan in general) and I was astounded at how many people go just to be seen; to shmooze with other political types. Is it like that at Nats games?

ALL Canadian towns are hockey towns.