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.
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.
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.