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Great sports towns with absolutely no shared history (1 Viewer)
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Zow
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Isn't there a connection as both could argue being the "most tortured" sports towns?
TobiasFunke
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DC and Boston have almost no history/rivalry despite being on the same coast and each having teams in all four major sports. The football and baseball teams play in different conferences and haven't met in the playoffs to my knowledge, which includes a combined 13 Super Bowl appearances. The basketball teams are in the same conference but somehow have never been good at the same time (DC 1977-79 and 2013-present, Boston pretty much every other season) and have met in only three playoff series, none in the last 30 years. The hockey teams are both perennial playoff teams in the same conference but somehow have also only met three times in their history, only once in the last 15+ years.
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Mr. Ected
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Grew up in Boston (76-88), spend most of adulthood in DC (88-present except 2001-2004 in Boston). This is probably accurate. The only curve is you might consider DC an Orioles town until 2005 when the Nationals moved south from Montreal. Not sure if there was any interaction between the Sox and the 2 Senators franchises that became the Twins and the Rangers.
Joe Summer
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In 1975 the Bullets beat the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals. Plus you got the whole Boston Redskins thing.
Eephus
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The old Senators and Red Sox had some great battles for 6th place. Joe Cronin had some great years in Washington but his sale to the Red Sox in 1934 sent the Senators into a tailspin that they never recovered from.
Ted Williams managed the new Senators.
TobiasFunke
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Also Ted Williams managing the old Senators for a bit. But that's really all there is, and it's all ancient history. The only thing that's happened in the last 40 years is the two first-round Cup series and a couple early NBA playoff series 30+ years ago, which I think is odd considering the geography and the fact that they both have teams in all four sports. Mostly a product of all the Washington teams sucking over that stretch, to be sure, but still unusual.
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Mr. Ected
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I think you're right...When the 'skins were great in the Joe Gibbs era, the Patriots weren't very good. Now when the Pats have been good over the last decade, the skin's have been scraping the bottom of the barrel.Also Ted Williams managing the old Senators for a bit. But that's really all there is, and it's all ancient history. The only thing that's happened in the last 40 years is the two first-round Cup series, which I think is odd considering the geography and the fact that they both have teams in all four sports. Mostly a product of all the Washington teams sucking over that stretch, to be sure, but still unusual.
mquinnjr
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Zegras11
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Mr. Retukes
Footballguy
The Browns and Rams played each other for the NFL Championship 3 times in the '50s. The Browns won 2, the Rams won 1.
Fariq
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They were not
I heard Peoria was looking to field an expansion team in the Chinese Basketball League. Road trips to Shenzhen will be a #####, though.
FUBAR
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FUBAR
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As good a start as any.
You almost have to start with cities that don't have 4 major sports teams. Or those that haven't had them long. Or win championships.
So Nashville, lacking major league baseball and basketball, paired with say Memphis, might work.
Or start with cities with great college teams but not pro. Ann arbor, south Bend, Tuscaloosa; with pro cities.
even if they're close by.
South Bend and Chicago?
Ann arbor and Detroit?
Tuscaloosa and Atlanta/Nashville?
QuizGuy66
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QuizGuy66
Footballguy
Too much proximity automatically means shared history.
Lots of ND alums in the Chicago area - it pretty much self disqualifies as it guarantees "shared" history.
Interestingly, though, I always noted how much I hate Notre Dame but as an Illinois alum realize we almost never play them (at least in the major sports) - one 2nd round game in the NCAA tournnament at the Hoosier Dome is about it.
A good offshoot might be major college programs in College Basketball and Football with no shared history. There's a few.
Anyway...
Ann Arbor and Detroit - too close - lots of UM and Michigan State alums to
Doesn't track.Tuscaloosa and Atlanta - total SEC Alabama/Georgia - tons of history.
Tuscaloosa and Nashville - Vandy is in Nashville and while awful almost all of the time there's history w/Alabama as both are SEC. And I'm sure there's enough Vols fans there as well.
-QG
Don Quixote
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Since people seem to be including college into this analysis, I guess Georgetown/BC may need to be considered. BC did have some good teams every now and again. Though Georgetown's biggest rival was definitely Syracuse in the old Big East.Also Ted Williams managing the old Senators for a bit. But that's really all there is, and it's all ancient history. The only thing that's happened in the last 40 years is the two first-round Cup series and a couple early NBA playoff series 30+ years ago, which I think is odd considering the geography and the fact that they both have teams in all four sports. Mostly a product of all the Washington teams sucking over that stretch, to be sure, but still unusual.
