Top 50 US metro areas with no MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, or MLS teams Quiz by Alasdair_Wilkins

Can you name the top 50 US metro areas with no MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, or MLS teams?

created by Alasdair_Wilkins

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Source: List of US Metro Areas
These are the only cities among the fifty largest US metro areas that do not have a professional sports team. Green Bay, WI is the only city outside the top 50 that has a team.
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Top 50 US Metro Areas Without Sports Teams Quiz

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	swellwrench:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 10:19 GMT		19 points
	Good quiz, but the title is a little ambiguous. I assumed it meant the top 50 metro areas among the metro areas without teams, not just the metro areas among the top 50 without teams.

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	Alasdair_Wilkins:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 14:02 GMT		2 points
	@swellwrench - Good point, although I'm not sure there's much I can do about that now. @sc00 - I tend to agree. I'll cut a couple minutes off.

	expat:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 14:15 GMT		5 points
	Isn't San Bernadino sufficient? I typed Virginia Beach and it gave it to me I would think that to be consistent either Riverside or San Bernadino should be accepted. Good quiz!!!

	amehta:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 14:27 GMT		4 points
	@expat - you spelled san bernardino wrong. there's an r before the d

	bton624:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 14:50 GMT		2 points
	excellent quiz idea

	mysecondaccount:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 15:31 GMT		0 points
	Albuquerque?

	Alasdair_Wilkins:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:07 GMT		3 points
	@mysecondaccount - Albuquerque is the 59th biggest metro area, so it doesn't make the list, I'm afraid.

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	Pats4Life:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:46 GMT		1 point
	@Antithesys- Actually adding the WNBA may affect the quiz because there's a team called the Connecticut Sun, but hey if Alasdair wants to include MLS, who cares?

	CoolBeans:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 18:21 GMT		3 points
	http://www.sporcle.com/games/CoolBeans/cities_without_sports

	ArtVandaley:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 18:58 GMT		5 points
	Always MLS haters. Thank you for considering MLS!

	ElDavo:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 19:00 GMT		0 points
	I got Riverside/San Bernardino by putting in like 12 spaces and no letters. That aside, YEAH VIRGINIA!! Only state with two cities in the top 50 and no sports teams. So proud to be a Virginian.

	ElDavo:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 19:01 GMT		1 point
	Tried it again, this time I got Riverside/San Bernardino AND Virginia Beach/Norfolk/Newport News with only spaces.

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	ArtVandaley:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 19:10 GMT		11 points
	Columbus Blue Jackets. MLS eliminates no metro areas, so people complaining is retarded. (Although if we are talking states, it does eliminate Kansas)

	SteakSnabler:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 20:16 GMT		0 points
	El Paso?

	Alasdair_Wilkins:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 20:34 GMT		4 points
	El Paso is only 68th. Also, regarding the inclusion of MLS in the title, I'm actually not much of a soccer fan, but I think the league has a legit claim as being the fifth major sport, and since their inclusion doesn't affect the answers at all, I figured there was no harm in including them.

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	MickCannon:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 20:58 GMT		-1 points
	I made this quiz a week ago: http://www.sporcle.com/games/MickCannon/SportlessUSMetros

	sem:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 21:01 GMT		13 points
	Bring back the Hartford Whalers!

	ArtVandaley:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 22:33 GMT		8 points
	I agree with LinuxLinus, those who compare the popularity of MLS to the WNBA are way out of touch. MLS is much closer to NHL than it is to WNBA it is not even a discussion.

	paulvc:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 00:30 GMT		-2 points
	Providence's metro area reaches into Massachusetts and I think that Foxborough (New England Patriots) falls within that area. Foxborough is definitely closer (driving distance) to Providence than it is to Boston. In short, I don't think Providence should be an answer.

	Alasdair_Wilkins:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 01:52 GMT		4 points
	@paulvc - You make an interesting point, but I think since the Patriots are implicitly a Boston sports team (considering their prior history as the Boston Patriots until 1971) they can't be considered a Providence team. I'll admit it's borderline though.

	ArtVandaley:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 11:41 GMT		1 point
	Not sure how I missed that, but as a person who lives in New England paulvc is 100% right. When my friends fly up from Texas for games at Foxboro they always fly to Providence because it is closer. While the argument can be made that the "New England" Patriots serve all of New England (which would include Hartford in this quiz too), I would say that it would be more accurate to say it is a Boston/Providence team. Citing the Boston Patriots does not make sense, since they changed their named when they moved out of Boston.

	nomuny12:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 13:33 GMT		6 points
	As a Virginian, this quiz saddens me. Please accept "Hampton Roads" for Norfolk/Va Beach/Newport News, etc. That area is always referred to as Norfolk, even though it's not even the largest (area wise and population wise) of the 7 cities.

	skoods:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 21:58 GMT		-2 points
	lol NHL is so much bigger than MLS. Soccer should stay where it belongs...overseas.

	Geo_Crazy:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 15:23 GMT		-3 points
	Thanks for including the MLS, for it is 90 minutes of no time out, limited subs, constant running, teamwork, sport. For those wanting it to stay overseas, well, I've yet to see American football as an Olympic sport or see its world cup event.

	nendwr:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 17:11 GMT		4 points
	Well, Virginia Beach is a fake city that was created to prevent Norfolk from annexing its suburbs. It's a shame the census goes along with such legal posturing: the real city's obviously called Norfolk. And I'm surprised Riverside is the least guessed, not the most guessed: it's almost a running joke in census stats.

	tunnel:	Apr 2nd, 2010 at 20:02 GMT		2 points
	Riverside and San Bernardino should be considered part of the Los Angeles Metro area.

	rwfnfl:	Aug 15th, 2010 at 20:26 GMT		1 point
	Birmingham is set with the Crimision Tide (for now)

	jefrunner:	Oct 21st, 2010 at 15:25 GMT		2 points
	I was going to say something about Honolulu, but then I realized that it's only the 57th metro area even if it is number 50 in cities alone. Good job.

	PK9:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 00:34 GMT		3 points
	In three days we can add Sacramento to this list.