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My guess is that those are actually the teams you're least likely to have a lot of fans of. LA, NYC, and Boston all already have massive and influential sports
by noirbot 4y ago
My guess is that those are actually the teams you're least likely to have a lot of fans of. LA, NYC, and Boston all already have massive and influential sports teams. The folks likely to want to watch/know about MLS are in the cities that don't - Kansas City, Austin, to a lesser extent Atlanta or Portland.
MLS is being fairly smart with its expansion and focusing on cities where they're not trying to pull fans away from the NY Yankees or the LA Lakers or whatever. Sure, they still have teams there as well, but the die-hard fans are going to be in the towns where folks are happy to have any team to be excited for.
- syntaxfree 4y ago> not trying to pull fans away from the NY Yankees In this thread we’ve learned there’s a New York Red Bulls and a New York Football Club.
- noirbot 4y agoCorrect, but if you look at the MLS in general, they have a lot of teams in under-served cities. The post I was responding to was claiming that the MLS is doing a bad job because there aren't many fans of the NYC teams, which may be true, but A. There's a lot of people in NYC, so even niche things can be popular enough to be a good idea. B. MLS has a lot of well-liked teams that aren't in major areas.