Can you name the U.S. states without a major sports team?

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No Sport States Quiz

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Created by: weizenugb -
Published: September 17th, 2009
Category: Sports
Plays: 269,633

Tags: State Quizzes, team, major, without

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	HollywoodLeo:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:03 GMT	94 points
	The Patriots play in Massachusetts. Just because they go by "New England" doesn't mean all of those states are one state.

	tjconn728:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:04 GMT	27 points
	Supernuke, it's about where the teams are physically located, not their fan base. In that case you forgot Connecticut (also a part of New England) and places like Kansas, for Kansas City teams, and Virginia, for DC teams.

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	RedLIon:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:23 GMT	13 points
	So basically the Deep south, the smaller New England states, and the Big Sky states are outta luck.

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	geowiz85:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:24 GMT	16 points
	most of these states have never even had a team in the past either, im pretty sure only two of them have had franchises post-1950 (KC-Omaha Kings (NBA) and Hartford Whalers (NHL))

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	RonMexico:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:29 GMT	7 points
	Almost forgot that Oklahoma City just got basketball...

	RyanUR:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:30 GMT	14 points
	@geowiz85: The ABA would have clouded the issue way back when--Kentucky Colonels and Virignia Squires.

	jonnyboy180:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:31 GMT	12 points
	knowing all of the states helps a lot for this quiz :)

	Jordan117:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:35 GMT	42 points
	It does kind of turn into a "name all the states" quiz. Maybe if there was an error counter like on the "pi" quiz that ended the game after a certain number of wrong answers. That would get people to consider their answers more instead of just trying them all.

	29smitty:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:36 GMT	26 points
	@RonMexico, please don't bring that up. It still stings in Seattle.

	DonnyB:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT	23 points
	I almost spaced on Alaska and Hawaii. I always forget to put them on my mental map for these quizzes.

	deej:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT	24 points
	I can't figure out exactly what it means to be #1 on this list. Best public awareness as being culturally void?

	Tommy_C:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:51 GMT	12 points
	Is someone going to get a prize for playing the 100,000,000th game on Sporcle?

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	quiztaker:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:56 GMT	18 points
	@The Joker: If Virginia got a team it would either be a DC team moving to Northern Virginia (Like the Giants and Jets with Jersey) or a team relocating to Virginia Beach-Norfolk, Richmond will never have a pro sports team.

	quiztaker:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 19:58 GMT	32 points
	Was I the only dork to notice that first four states to vote in Presidential primaries (Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada) have a combined number of zero pro sports teams?

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	WindSword:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 20:07 GMT	5 points
	Kansas City Chiefs threw me off.

	quiztaker:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	9 points
	@GoldenBo: That would be like giving the Jets to New York, which they don't because they sadly play about twelve feet within the state of New Jersey, mainly to dodge the infamously high NY taxes.

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	hungryj0e:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT	15 points
	too bad Connecticut is a part of this...hopefully the Whalers come back some day

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	Guinevere:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 20:15 GMT	8 points
	Forgot Alaska and Hawaii (hangs head in shame). And six others, but Alaska and Hawaii hurt.

	bobc:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 20:17 GMT	5 points
	@geowiz85, if you go way back, Providence had an NFL and an NBA team. Louisville had an NFL team too. Wouldn't surprise me if there were a couple of others. @jawa88, I'm a Husker fan, and even I think that's a lame comment.

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	Reed:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 20:33 GMT	38 points
	quiztaker = population; ragnarok = square mileage. Thank you.

	DPA727:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 20:45 GMT	2 points
	ok reed/ragnarok- so by that logic alaska should have a team cause its the biggest state of em all..albeit the crowd would be full of polar bears and eskimos

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	ragnarok42007:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 20:55 GMT	8 points
	I was responding to a matter of state size, not whether they should have a team. Places with teams need to be places where people will go to see the team, which is why they tend to be in major cities. Simple as that.

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	betared:	Sep 17th, 2009 at 21:00 GMT	3 points
	The fact that the NHL has 5 teams in California and Florida 2 is just sad.

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