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Anonymous
03/14/26, 18:15No.153863423Why don’t these states have teams in the major leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB)?
03/14/26, 18:15No.153863423Why don’t these states have teams in the major leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB)?>Montana
>Idaho
>Wyoming
>North Dakota
>South Dakota
>Nebraska
>Iowa
They aren't any NFL, NBA, NHL or MLB teams in those states. Why?
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Anon
03/14/26, 18:18No.153863455
03/14/26, 18:18No.153863455There are no people there to support a big franchise.
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Anon
03/14/26, 18:19No.153863478
03/14/26, 18:19No.153863478American sports leauges are closed systems about bringing in as much money as possible. Those areas have the population of 50 people and 100 bison
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Anon
03/14/26, 18:21No.153863506
03/14/26, 18:21No.153863506Because they are evil
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Anon03/14/26, 18:22No.153863517
03/14/26, 18:22No.153863517Nobody lives there and the ones who do are poor or too busy to give a shit about sportsball
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Anon03/14/26, 18:34No.153863662
03/14/26, 18:34No.153863662Montana is bigger than Germany landwise, and has 1 million people. Germany has over 83 million.
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Anon03/14/26, 18:35No.153863671
03/14/26, 18:35No.153863671Most of the population centers in those states are close enough to other population centers. Iowa and Nebraska's major cities are close to Kansas City, North and South Dakota's biggest cities hug the Minnesota border, Wyoming's largest metro area is very close to Denver and Idaho is split between the Mormon corridor tied to Utah and the Panhandle tied to Washington.
Montana, who the fuck knows, Ted Turner hasn't broadcast the Chinese Buffalo Heeming yet, and maybe he never will.
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Anon03/14/26, 18:41No.153863753
03/14/26, 18:41No.153863753the population in all of those states combined is 24
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Anon03/14/26, 20:15No.153865378
03/14/26, 20:15No.153865378Those leagues only put teams in the biggest metro areas and teams are constantly moving to bigger ones in search of more money. You could put Montana and Wyoming together and have less people than most of the cities with NFL teams if not all of them
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Anon
03/14/26, 20:16No.153865408
03/14/26, 20:16No.153865408Those areas are White so jewish league owners don't want them in their leagues
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Anon03/14/26, 20:51No.153866078
03/14/26, 20:51No.153866078Their combined population is about a thousand people or so.For a capital driven society people do not exist, only "markets" do, and these are not enough.
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Anon
03/14/26, 23:25No.153869113
03/14/26, 23:25No.153869113What's the square in the ocean ? Bermuda ?
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Anon03/15/26, 01:44No.153871304
03/15/26, 01:44No.153871304People don’t live there that’s where we raise the ingredients to make burgers
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Anon03/15/26, 01:45No.153871309
03/15/26, 01:45No.153871309Flight times + weather + low population make it very difficult to justify the cost
for instance, Wyoming has a smaller population than Alaska and has the worst weather conditions in North America
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Anon03/15/26, 02:25No.153871965
03/15/26, 02:25No.153871965They just don't have any large metro areas. The largest in that region is Omaha-Council Bluffs. That's only 1 million people.
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Anon03/15/26, 03:33No.153873333
03/15/26, 03:33No.153873333They aren’t big enough to support a franchise
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Anon03/15/26, 04:17No.153874260
03/15/26, 04:17No.153874260No billionaire cares enough about their city/state enough to put a team there. Oklahoma city was never going to have a market but the owner wanted a team in his home town that badly for the NBA so he moved the Seattle Supersonics there. Everybody hates it but he had the money to do what he wanted.
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Anon03/15/26, 04:18No.153874304
03/15/26, 04:18No.153874304they live way better lives to care about sports
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Anon03/15/26, 07:47No.153877209
03/15/26, 07:47No.153877209I feel like even then it would still be an extremely small market team.
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Anon03/15/26, 13:52No.153881062
03/15/26, 13:52No.153881062This gets asked all the time, and the answer doesn't change. No one lives there. Look at a population density map.
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Anon03/15/26, 20:39No.153886836
03/15/26, 20:39No.153886836All the income of people in that part of the country is spent on alcohol. They are brainless retarded zombies.
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Anon03/15/26, 20:50No.153886988
03/15/26, 20:50No.153886988>Why are states that fucking suck where no one lives deprived of cool shit?
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Anon03/15/26, 20:54No.153887032
03/15/26, 20:54No.153887032boise will get a team in some league in 2045ish
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Anon03/16/26, 03:21No.153892766
03/16/26, 03:21No.153892766what professional team in alabama, mississipi, arkansas, and Kansas(everyone plays in MO)?
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Anon03/16/26, 03:27No.153892864
03/16/26, 03:27No.153892864>Why don’t these states have teams in the major leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB)?
Because those seven states have a combined total of like 750 residents. Who the fuck is going to go to the games?
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Anon03/16/26, 03:37No.153892952
03/16/26, 03:37No.153892952Too remote. Fans in those states largely just align with the neighboring professional teams or the teams of their hometowns considering the amount of transplants.
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Anon03/16/26, 13:50No.153895446
03/16/26, 13:50No.153895446They don't have the TV markets to support pro teams and they're already accounted for by teams in nearby states. Like, for example, someone from Idaho is probably going to be a Seahawks or Broncos fan, a Jazz fan, and a Kraken or Mammoth fan.
On the other hand, Idaho and North Dakota are two of the fastest-growing states in the country. So maybe in 20 years we'll see Boise and Fargo become pro sports towns like what's happened with Vegas.
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Anon
03/16/26, 13:53No.153895459
03/16/26, 13:53No.153895459As far as I'm concerned Iowa is Chiefs territory
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Anon03/16/26, 13:54No.153895461
03/16/26, 13:54No.153895461Those states have a combined population of like 2,000,000
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Anon03/16/26, 13:58No.153895482
03/16/26, 13:58No.153895482>to have a sports franchise you have to have millions of poor browns living on top of eachother!
what did this thread mean by this
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Anon
03/16/26, 14:00No.153895491
03/16/26, 14:00No.153895491Has anyone thought of a verry funny joke that goes like: "the combined population of these states is [humourously low number]?"Haven't seen it in this thread yet.
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Anon03/16/26, 17:18No.153896471
03/16/26, 17:18No.153896471You're missing a few other states that don't have any major sports teams. The biggest shocker is Kentucky. They could easily stick a team right in the middle of Lexington and Louisville. Bring together two college fanbases that hate each other for an NBA team. They'd sell out every game with ease.
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Anon03/16/26, 21:23No.153898171
03/16/26, 21:23No.153898171A Kentucky team would also have Cincinnati going down, who used to have an team and still want one. Just seems like the most overlooked area. If shit ever goes completely south between the Bengals and the city, they would move to Kentucky, so there's that.
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Anon03/16/26, 22:05No.153898513
03/16/26, 22:05No.153898513There are basically no markets left in the USA that aren't already satisfied by college sports or too stuffed with transplants for a team to build any sort of loyalty. They're trying with Vegas and they might try soon with Austin or Nashville but it'll be the same story.
Charlotte was a failed experiment but I think somewhere in the corridor of Raleigh/VA Beach/Richmond could work. That and Portland are the only remaining places where people still have a sort of hometown pride
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Anon03/16/26, 22:39No.153898776
03/16/26, 22:39No.153898776Omaha should have an NHL team
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Anon
03/16/26, 23:07No.153898949
03/16/26, 23:07No.153898949only white ppl live there and white ppl can't ball
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Anon03/17/26, 00:03No.153899433
03/17/26, 00:03No.153899433
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Anon03/17/26, 00:28No.153899843
03/17/26, 00:28No.153899843George Shinn and Jordan permafucked that market for the NBA and David Tepper is trying to do the same for the NFL. The Hurricanes have a solid fanbase though.
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Anon03/17/26, 03:16No.153902214
03/17/26, 03:16No.153902214>why doesn't Wyoming have a major sports teamHave you been there? It's a fucking wasteland. You could probably buy a house cash for like $40k. Only problem would be dealing with intense winds and fending off bears
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Anon03/17/26, 03:56No.153902537
03/17/26, 03:56No.153902537Kek
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Anon03/17/26, 04:05No.153902625
03/17/26, 04:05No.153902625low population density
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Anon03/17/26, 15:49No.153905226
03/17/26, 15:49No.153905226Bears won't fuck with you for the most part unless you sneak up on them or try to pick up a cub.
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Anon03/17/26, 15:56No.153905262
03/17/26, 15:56No.153905262same answer as the last 20 times we had this thread
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Anon
03/17/26, 16:32No.153905478
03/17/26, 16:32No.153905478Life in those states seem pretty comfy. Low population density, cold climate, lots of nature, no dystopian hellish urban landscapes, slow pace. Sounds like potentially the best place to live in the US. Can any ameribro confirm?
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Anon
03/17/26, 21:47No.153909196
03/17/26, 21:47No.153909196They're all empty as fuck
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Anon03/18/26, 03:24No.153915277
03/18/26, 03:24No.153915277The real reason is a lack of corporate support. Luxury boxes, club seats, sponsorships, etc. are what teams really crave and it's corporations that have the budget to pay ridiculous prices for those things year after year, increase after increase.
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Anon03/18/26, 19:30No.153921010
03/18/26, 19:30No.153921010because they have minor league teams, which is the American equivalent to the soccer leagues below Premier League like Champion and English League.
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Anon03/19/26, 15:02No.153929179
03/19/26, 15:02No.153929179Theres a whole lot of nothing in that area of the country. Pretty comfy to live in though.
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Anon03/22/26, 01:40No.153961051
03/22/26, 01:40No.153961051Because of how rural it isThe minor leagues do pretty well tho
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Anon03/22/26, 05:08No.153962942
03/22/26, 05:08No.153962942there's just not enough people
Omaha is the largest city/metro in that area at 55th, followed by Boise at 74 and Des Monies at 82the only cities smaller than Omaha with big pro teams are Green Bay (historical oddity) and New Orleans (relatively recent decline post-Katrina)
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Anon03/22/26, 16:49No.153968510
03/22/26, 16:49No.153968510The great plains are uninhabited.
You have to go north into the Canadian prairie or south before you start seeing people.
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Anon03/22/26, 17:39No.153969181
03/22/26, 17:39No.153969181Tbh an NFL team could survive in Nebraska. Similar to Buffalo bills, the local community would make it their life. For context they suck dick at college football for 2+ decades and still sell 95k tickets for every game in that stretch, and will again next year.There is literally nothing else to do or care about there so it would work.T. Nebraskan, no longer living there
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Anon03/22/26, 22:19No.153973448
03/22/26, 22:19No.153973448my nigga there are more cows than people up there, plus thats where we keep all of our nuclear missile silos so the less people hanging around the better.
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Anon03/23/26, 21:08No.153979909
03/23/26, 21:08No.153979909there's historically "okay" college football teams in Iowa, Nebraska, and North Dakota.
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Anon03/24/26, 15:15No.153984213
03/24/26, 15:15No.153984213For me? It’s the Vandals, the pride of North Idaho.
Also these states (at least Idaho and Montana) are outdoorsman’s paradises. The most popular “sports” here are fishing and hunting by a very wide margin.
