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1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2020 09:37:47 EDT musicman
   The #Minnesota sad tears are always a bit eye-rolly for me. The Kings haven't won in 66 years, and that's just looking at the #NBA. However, I guess if you just look at pro sports, and you just look at the city level. #Minneapolis - #StPaul is pretty close to the bottom, and two of the ones below are Canadian (though I guess other than the NFL, all of the US major team sports have given Canada a go...and are still in at least Toronto)
   
   Then, if you look at cities with all 5 major sports, well...we are at the bottom. People in Minnesota don't seem to understand the media situation though. Minnesota gets sports teams because there is a whole lot of nothing between us and Seattle. Sure, you can go south to Salt Lake, and Boise is growing, but Minneapolis isn't nearly as a big of a deal as people here want to believe. It is nice though, we get lots of concerts and stuff, but there is a real reason why it is hard to attract talent here.
   
   That said, I really don't understand how the Wild aren't better than they are.
   
   *Cincinnati (1990)
   Barry Larkin, Jose Rijo and the Reds pulled off a 4-0 sweep of the Oakland Athletics in the 1990 World Series. That gave the Reds their fifth World Series championship.Others: Bengals (none).
   
   Edmonton (1990)
   Mark Messier and Craig MacTavish led the Oilers to a 4-1 series win over the Boston Bruins in the 1990 Stanley Cup finals. That closed a decade where Edmonton won five Stanley Cup championships.
   
   30 years or more:
   Calgary (1989). The Flames beat the Canadiens in six games to win the 1989 Stanley Cup finals.
   
   *Portland (1977). The Trail Blazers won their only NBA title behind Bill Walton to beat the 76ers in six games.
   
   *Buffalo (1965). The Bills won back-to-back AFL titles in 1964-65, but Jim Kelly and Co. lost four Super Bowls and the Sabres have never won the Stanley Cup.
   
   *San Diego (1963). The Chargers, now in Los Angeles, won a AFL title in 1963. The Padres lost the World Series in 1984 and 1998.
   1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2020 15:38:09 EDT musicman

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      it occurred to me that Sacramento doesn't have any big league teams and they didn't make the list: https://nu.federati.net/url/274579
      
      I wonder how many other cities didn't even make the list...
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2020 15:41:37 EDT lnxw48a1

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         @musicman The used to have an NBA basketball team. I drove past an old arena north of town when I was in #Sac last year.
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2020 17:03:40 EDT lnxw48a1

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            *They*
            1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2020 17:06:22 EDT lnxw48a1

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               https://www.nba.com/kings/
               
               So it looks like there is still a Sacramento Kings NBA team. The arena I drove past looked abandoned, so either they really need to do some work or they have another one.
               1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2020 17:21:45 EDT musicman

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                  that was a typo in the reply. You'll notice I mentioned the Kings in the second sentence of my original post.
                  
                  The point of my reply was that the website had left Sacramento off the list despite the Kings. I don't know if they left any other cities else off, or why they would choose to do that, but it's funny that the one team I decided to highlight was at least one of the teams they left off.