re: Future Pro Sports Cities?

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The travel for a San Juan MLB team would suck. 7 hour flight to the west coast.

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How is that any different for a city like Montreal? Who's citizens don't even play the sport of baseball...

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LOL

yeah, go to places where the players and their families can be kidnapped at any moment, with Police probably being involved and tipping off the kidnappers.

fricking geniuses, how about Johannesburg next?

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Again, so how does that work for cities like Chicago, Oakland, LA, SF or Baltimore...talk about crime ridden, those cities are just as dangerous...if not MORE dangerous!!! Your take is hyperbole at its finest. San Juan would be a GREAT MLB city.

I forgot about the Seattle addition.

But, Atlanta despite Flaming out twice prematurely, is just too full of never ceasing Yankee migrants, and one of America's true never ceasing metropolis, another try in time is almost a certainty..probably Houston too..Aeros have had a draw.

Tampa's Ning have always drawn with Midwest and Seaboard transplants.

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But, Atlanta despite Flaming out twice prematurely, is just too full of never ceasing Yankee migrants, and one of America's true never ceasing metropolis, another try in time is almost a certainty..

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I seriously doubt the NHL is going to take another chance with Atlanta. An ownership group along with the city would have to damn near be perfect in convincing the NHL. Atlanta would have to do something like Seattle and sellout season tickets before even getting awarded a franchise.

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Monterrey, Mexico

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My BIL's work transportation from the airport to hotel got pulled over and robbed by 4 gunman there last month. Driver was in on it. First thing I asked him was, "You see the soccer stadium with the mountain in the background, pretty cool huh?"

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Title IX has killed men’s soccer for the US. I’m not a soccer fan but if it became a scholarship sport, there would be a lot more interest. If football broke away from the NCAA, this could happen.

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Lol no

For one you can get a mens soccer scholarship

Two college soccer isn’t real soccer, the rules are nothing like how the game is played. The best players at that age will never look at college soccer as the avenue to take bc 15-18 years olds in other countries are full on professionals and will be light years ahead of a college soccer player.

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Quebec City not having an NHL team is criminal.

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Quebec Premier Francois Legault is in discussions with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman to bring back the defunct franchise. RDS reports that Legault will be meeting with senior leaders of the NHL in early 2022.

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If you want to know what cities will be considered in the future for pro sports, consider the following qualifications:
1. Population size
2. Population density
3. Rate of population growth
4. Affluence
5. Fortune 500 companies
6. Proximity to other franchises in the same pro sport

To support a pro sports franchise, one needs to have a large enough population of affluent people within a small enough geographical area to buy tickets. Having fortune 500 companies located there helps a ton because corporations tend to sponsor stadiums, buy up large numbers of expensive premium seats, and purchase considerable air time for advertising.

If you want to know what cities are going to be next, look at those 5 factors. For example, compare San Juan (population 2.3 million) to Birmingham (1.1 million). While San Juan has double the population of Birmingham, it has a GDP per capita of only $31,538. Birmingham, meanwhile, has one of $48,640. That means that while San Juan is larger, it's only contains about 23% more total wealth. But, considering the significant differences in the per-capita ratio, Birmingham likely contains more citizens who are affluent enough to afford to purchase season tickets than does San Juan. Next, Birmingham's metro is increasing in population while San Juan's is slowly declining. In addition, Birmingham houses the HQ for a fortune 500 company while San Juan does not. With that said, Birmingham's geographic location (a relatively short drive from several major markets like Nashville and Atlanta), works against it, while San Juan is nowhere near any other pro sports franchise, meaning they'd be the only game in town.

Several of the listed cities have similar issues of being geographically close to other cities with existing franchises: Louisville is not far from Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Richmond isn't a bad drive from DC. Hartford is about halfway between Boston and New York City.

On the flip side, San Juan, Omaha, Albuquerque, El Paso, Quebec City, and Boise are all significantly farther from the nearest large market with a franchise.

Here are some places that haven't been mentioned yet that might also make some sense:
San Bernardino/Riverside, CA (4,599,839)
Virginia Beach/Norfolk/Newport News, VA (1,799,674)
Raleigh, NC (1,413,982)
Honolulu, HI (1,016,508)

I think the only league that could possibly make it in Richmond is the NHL. I think the NHL gets good ratings here, from what I have seen. But it won’t happen. City won’t put up the money for an arena.

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Not Boise. You can cross that off the list

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Boise attracts around 25,000 people to BSU football games tops. Any professional team would have to be a winter sports team because the entire Treasure Valley empties in the summer up 55 or out onto 20/21 into the high country.