30th Best Sport City in the Nation?

[DraftBoy]

In the most recent article of The Sporting News, they listed the top 101 cities in the nation based on sports. They listed Boston as #1, which is understandable. #30 was Buffalo, which makes sense since you guys only got 2 pro teams. But the thing that caught my eye was that Atlanta was #15. I couldnt believe since this city cant even sell out a playoff game, this is kinda ridiculous.

[bduff54]

but atlanta has every major sport. and they are die-hard braves fans!

[lordofgun]

Last I looked, they didn't sell out a lot of their Braves playoff games either. Probably has something to do with having hosted the Olympics in '96 and other stupid stuff like that.

[EricStratton]

Duff, I'll give you the every major sport thing in Atlanta but die-hard fans they are not. The Braves rarely sell out playoff games to the point Yankee fans in the WS and Met fans in the playoffs fly to Atlanta on cheap flights and buy tickets at the window.

[JefftheBillsfan]

hey...do you have a link...I would be interested to see the link?

[BambinoSux]

Obviously Boston is #1 but where was Miami on this? They can't sell out a playoff game either and about 3,000 people come to their baseball games a night.

[bduff54]

wow, i really thought the braves fans were die hards. there team is always amazing aswerll. Buffalo is good but not great. where is toronto on this list. every leaf and every raptor game was sold out last year. (who else can boast those numbers?) And in the early 90's we broke the attendance record for baseball!@

[dolfan25]

Why is it that when the Bills don't sellout a playoff game no one holds it against the Bills. Was the last playoff game you had at Buffalo sold out?

I always hear how the game was actually sold out by game time but when Fin fans tell you the same about their games that were not sold out it is just disregarded. As I have said so many times, do you think Green Bay or Cleveland would not sell out their playoff games in time for TV.

[bduff54]

i hear ya dolfan. we have had real problems with that. there have been many blackouts. some bills fans are very quick to mock other fans but meanwhile ours aren't the greatest either

[EricStratton]

This is the link to the 2001 list. New York is #1 and Buffalo #25.

http://www.sportingnews.com/sportscities2001/fulllist.html

The page also has the criteria to see why a city makes it or not.




1. New York-New Jersey-Long Island
2. Oakland-San Francisco-San Jose
3. Los Angeles-Anaheim
4. Philadelphia
5. Dallas-Fort Worth
6. Denver
7. Baltimore-Washington
8. Miami-Fort Lauderdale
9. Detroit
10. Phoenix
11. St. Louis
12. Atlanta
13. Chicago
14. Minneapolis-St. Paul
15. Pittsburgh
16. Boston
17. Seattle
18. Nashville
19. Salt Lake City
20. Toronto
21. Raleigh-Durham- Chapel Hill
22. Indianapolis
23. Charlotte
24. Cincinnati
25. Buffalo
26. Milwaukee
27. Houston
28. New Orleans
29. San Antonio
30. Tampa-St. Petersburg
31. Columbus
32. Cleveland
33. Orlando
34. Sacramento
35. San Diego
36. Norman, Okla.
37. Ottawa
38. Kansas City
39. South Bend, Ind.
40. Portland, Ore.
41. Vancouver
42. Edmonton
43. Jacksonville
44. Green Bay
45. Gainesville, Fla.
46. Calgary
47. Austin, Texas
48. West Lafayette, Ind.
49. Knoxville, Tenn.
50. Ames, Iowa
51. Madison, Wisc.
52. Tucson, Ariz.
53. Athens, Ga.
54. Tallahassee, Fla.
55. Lincoln, Neb.
56. Corvallis, Ore.
57. Eugene, Ore.
58. Oxford, Miss.
59. Manhattan, Kan.
60. East Lansing, Mich.

[bduff54]

Buffalo does alright. Toronto is good but could be a bit higher

[lordofgun]

What's the point of putting one out every year? The cities don't change that much.

[EricStratton]

It fills space in the magazine

[lordofgun]

yep...that's about it...

[BambinoSux]

I agree BDuff. I think Toronto should be near the top 10. I guess if they take everything into consideration, then the baseball attendances hurts it. Can't really think of anything else.