WORST MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITY ?

Jacksonville has to be a close second

 

St. Petersburg, FL. Tropicana Field has no business being out there.

 

Really, Miami?
Not what I wanted to hear.
San Diego is what I would have expected (pre Machado era)

 

Not all that long ago Miami was a great sports town. Crappy ownership making stupid decision after decision has ruined NFL, MLB and NHL teams in town. I’m not an NBA fan but even with the arena difficult to get to the Heat still draw crowds and are competitive.


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I would agree with San Diego since it is one of the largest cities in the country and is down to only 1 team from the 4 major team sports.

 

I would say Philadelphia, not due to the teams but the fans.

 

Boston.

The fans suck!!!

 

I think its a tie.

 

First two posts nailed it. Anywhere in the state of Florida. Whomever decided Florida needed more than one professional team per sport - maximum! - was delusional.
T

 

What about Atlanta? Lost an NHL team twice!!

 

Bob is just kidding...........right Bob?

 

it's not, that's why it's the worst

people forget, but Jax was a distant 4th in the NFL expansion race, then St Louis and Baltimore screwed themselves out of a team in various ways. Jax got the franchise almost by default.

 

I hate to defend Florida, but it is the 3rd largest state in the US behind CA and TX. how many pro sports teams do those states have?

 

But we have the best-supported MLS team in the league - 70,000+ fans per game, and the defending champions. The Braves and Falcons draw pretty well, but they are definitely fair-weather fans.

 

True, but it does not seem that FL supports pro teams through thick & thin like other locales. And, like FL does for college sports.
I know there are a lot of transplants from NY down there, but I've watched Yankees-Rays games on the tube with the wife, and it sounds like a Yankees home game. I've been to about half a dozen Mets@Marlins games in Miami - when the Fish were good! - and there were more Met fans in the stands than Marlins fans. I can't comment on hockey & basketball, since I do not follow those.

As to the comment on Boston, my recollection is that even before there teams went on their current winning streaks since the turn of the century, Boston fans loyally supported their teams. Again, I'm extrapolating based on baseball, since I follow that closest. But, I've been going to Boston for business for nearly 30 years, and it has never been easy to get tix to Fenway.

T

 

I have to disagree with Atlanta. They have/had a good NFL team very recently.

 

It wasn't quite always that way Tom. I think the 1967 year was the turning point. They won the pennant and played the St. Louis Cardinals in the series. I started attending Boston University in 1965 and we would regularly walk down to Fenway in the afternoon (this is when weekday games were actually played during the day) and go into the bleachers because they opened the gates after the 6th inning.

The funny thing is we thought it was great to watch the last 3 innings for free, and this was when bleacher seats only cost 50 cents!

 

Tom, you got me a little nostalgic, so I did a little googling. From a book excerpt -

Fenway was a ghost town of a ball park in 1965, when the team drew but 652,201—an average of 8,052 a game.

The worst came late in the season. On Sept. 28 against California, only 461 fans showed to watch the sad Sox. The next day was even worse against the same team—just 409 in the house. Finishing ninth in the 10-team American League, the Sox lost 100 games and won 62. The nadir had been breached.

Undoubtedly a couple buddies and me would have boosted attendance to 464 and 412 if only we had paid the 50 cents to get in!

 

Interesting stuff, Paul. Thanks. Did not go to Boston on biz until early - mid 90s, I would guess. We used to stay in the Back Bay near Hynes. Been to Fenway twice now. Kind of reminds me of Wrigley. Not a great stadium per se, but great history. Last time, we sat in the right field roof seats.
T

 

Not a bad call on SD. They lost both Clippers and Chargers. Petco is a nice stadium though...T

 

The one that choked away a 25 point lead in the SuperBowl? You can’t be good if you do that; you have to be awful.