And no one else but Mario Lemieux could represent the Penguins.
Ray Lewis for the Ravens isn’t debatable.
Agreed, but is he even the biggest “duh” in Baltimore? Brooks Robinson has a lot of fans, but Cal Ripken Jr. WAS Baltimore.
And Tony Gwynn is the only possible answer for the Padres.
It depends how old you are, probably. Ripken was the face of a baseball franchise that was mostly irrelevant - he won a World Series in 1983, but the O’s only made the playoffs three times (including that year) in Cal’s 21 year career.
Between 1966 and 1983, the O’s went to the World Series 6 times and won 3 of them. Ripken was usually a bright spot on a bad team, but you could argue that Brooks (1955-'77) or Jim Palmer (1964-'84) were the faces of a winning franchise.
Stan Musial is also a first-tier “duh” guy. I doubt more than 5% of Cards fans would say otherwise.
Tampa Bay area checking in -
Currently
*Buccaneers: ** Ronde Barber
Lightning: Vinnie LeCavalier, although Martin St Louis might get more love
Rays: Joe Maddon as coach. If it has to be a player then Evan Longoria or David Price
Rowdies: Luke Mulholland or Jeff Attinella
Storm (Arena football): No one
*Ronde is the team’s elder statesman and should be a HOF lock. It could also possibly be Josh Freeman, the young, good looking QB and may soon be Doug Martin, who is having an amazing rookie season.
All Time
**Buccaneers: ** Leroy Selmon
Rowdies: Rodney Marsh
The others are the same/not enough history.
Add Kevin Garnett for the Timberwolves to the “duh” list.
I’m sure they’ve been done in the thread, so i’ll give mine without looking at the other answers. Unless there aren’t any, in which case these are the correct answers!
Now:
Penguins - Sidney Crosby
Pirates - Andrew McCutcheon
Steelers - Ben Roethlisburger (Troy Palumalu was a close second, but he’s been injured too much in the last two years. Ben’s face is always on the TV Promo stills for the pre-game promotion stuff.
All-Time:
Penguins - Mario Lemieux
Pirates - Roberto Clemente. - (the only guy that could come close is Honus Wagner, a member of the first class of Hall-of-famers, with Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, and Christy Mathewson - but there is very little film of him to have him in the mind of baseball fans… However, his baseball card, the rarest and most expensive one on the market, does keep his name in the spotlight from time to time,)
Steelers - Terry Bradshaw - This was tougher than I originally thought it would be. However, my other 3 candidates (Harris, Lambert, and Greene) all have been out of the limelight for quite some time. Bradshaw still does the CBS Sunday NFL Show and still represents the Steelers of thr 70’s, perhaps the greatest team of all time. Harris doesn’t get the vote because he played for Seattle (seattle!) his last season in the NFL after a holdout, Lambert’s famous toothless grin is hard to forget, but he’s not really a public figure any more. Joe Greene is the one guy I would have picked over Bradshaw if it weren’t for the Sunday Football show. He was the anchor of the 70’s Steel curtain defense, he was Chuck Noll’s very first draft pick, and one of, if not the very best defensive linemen of all time.)
SFP-Bradshaw is at Fox.
What did i say… CBS?
Mea culpa!
Mean Joe Green also had that very famous Coca-Cola commercial.
But yeah, Bradshaw.
I’ll go you one better than that- for me, Dick Butkus is the face of linebackers, the face of DEFENSE, period.
I’m gonna say Michael Jordan is the face of the Bobcats, on the grounds that he’s the only face I associate with them. 
Knead
Braves fan
Question for you. I know Leroy Selmon was a great player and he’s in the HoF, but when i think of Tampa Bay all time, i think of Warren Sapp.
I know why… Selmon played for some really bad teams, while Sapp played for some of the nest Bucs teams ever. But like so many other players, Sapp’s run on national TV gets his face in my house at least once a week (i THINK he’s on HBO or SHOWTIME, but I’ve already been wrong once in this thread.)
Anyway, as someone on the ground in Tsmpa, where does warren sit for you?
If Sapp’s on Inside the NFL, the show’s on Showtime now.
Martin Brodeur for the Devils is another DUH pick.
Current:
L.A Dodgers-Matt Kemp
L.A Lakers- Kobe Bryant
St Louis(L.A ) Rams- Sam Bradford
All-time
L.A Dodgers- It’s real close, but I would say Jackie Robinson
L.A Lakers - Magic Johnson
L.A Rams - Youngblood
All Time Ram is Eric Dickerson, IMO.
That depends on your age. I’m 32.
Let me first mention that I don’t follow sports at all so this is really just based on what I hear. For football, right now, I would choose Aaron Rodgers, but for ‘all time’, I didn’t think of Bart Starr, I thought of Brett Favre. Robin Yount was the first Brewer to come to mind though. That or Paul Molitor. Of course, the last time I went to see a baseball game, Paul Molitor was playing against the Brewers.
That’s kind of a weird phrasing of that answer when Jackie Robinson never played a single game in Los Angeles.
Although the Brooklyn/LA Dodgers are the same franchise and there’s continuity of the history, I would think Jackie is indelibly marked as the face of the BROOKLYN Dodgers, whereas for the Los Angeles version, it’s gotta be Sandy Koufax. They’re two distinct phases of Dodger history and I think they deserve their own faces.
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I know how odd it seems- but Texas fans in two cities embraced Nolan Ryan as they’ve rarely embraced any baseball player. He’s ARGUABLY the face of 3 franchises!
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If you discount the special case of Jackie, Nolan Ryan is the only player with his number retired by three MLB teams.