Yankee Girl Survives First Year at Southern University

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

Ooh, another Southern/Northern difference I just thought of-collegiate sports versus professional sports.

Southerners are all about the college sports

The University Of Alabama-Huntsville Men's Ice Hockey Team would love to see these people at their games.

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

The University Of Alabama-Huntsville Men's Ice Hockey Team would love to see these people at their games.

Lol!

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

The University Of Alabama-Huntsville Men's Ice Hockey Team would love to see these people at their games.

Okay, generally sports that don't involve ice or other cold things

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

Okay, generally sports that don't involve ice or other cold things

Except for cold beverages (says the Southern-born Carolina Hurricanes fan.)

[ASTalumna06]

So here's something that came up tonight that made me think of this thread...

I was having dinner tonight with my bf (who's originally from TX) and a friend (who's from South Africa). My bf was making fun of me because I call a shopping cart a "carriage," and our South African friend said that he calls it a "trolley."

What say you, GCers? Cart? Carriage? Trolley? Buggy? etc.

What do people tend to call them in your neck of the woods?

[AGDee]

You find a lot of people into college football up here. Then again, our "pro" football team is crap and has been for a very long time. And marching band is huge here too.

I live in a pretty small suburb near Detroit and the high school football games are pretty much attended by the whole town. I said something to some band parents this year about missing going to football games and they said I should still come. It doesn't matter if I don't have a football player or a kid in the band- all kinds of people go who don't have kids on the field in some capacity. It was NOT like that where I grew up.

[amIblue?]

You need to leave Tennessee off that list. Nashville has the NFL and NHL. Memphis has the NBA.

You also need to leave Oklahoma off that list because they're in the Midwest.

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

You also need to leave Oklahoma off that list because they're in the Midwest.

And OKC has an NBA team...

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

You need to leave Tennessee off that list. Nashville has the NFL and NHL. Memphis has the NBA.

You also need to leave Oklahoma off that list because they're in the Midwest.

But aren't those relatively recent additions?

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

But aren't those relatively recent additions?

The Tennessee Titans were established (moved from Houston) in 1997, I believe...I may or may not still be bitter about it. So, if you consider 15 years "relatively new", then yes.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

You need to leave Tennessee off that list. Nashville has the NFL and NHL. Memphis has the NBA.

You also need to leave Oklahoma off that list because they're in the Midwest.

I said...

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Then you look at states like Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, etc. that don't have any professional teams across the entire state, or they have very few.

Basically, for example, if you live in the Memphis area and don't like basketball, you're SOL in terms of professional sports.

And I know Oklahoma isn't "in the south".. but I wasn't being picky about that.

[ASTalumna06]

Here ya go!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...rts_franchises

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I said...



Basically, for example, if you live in the Memphis area and don't like basketball, you're SOL in terms of professional sports.

And I know Oklahoma isn't "in the south".. but I wasn't being picky about that.

Yep, Memphis is SOL just like the people in San Antonio and Shreveport and damn near every other city down here except for Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, and Houston.

If you're not going to be picky about the entire point of the thread, why don't you also include states that are franchise-free or with only a few franchises like the Dakotas, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Hawaii to make your point?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

But aren't those relatively recent additions?

That's what I was thinking. North Carolina has one NFL team and one NBA team -- both in Charlotte, which probably makes them somewhat irrelevant in the eastern and far western parts of the state -- and one NHL team in Raleigh, which makes it somewhat irrelevant for the western and far eastern parts of the state.

But they came along relatively recently. College sports -- especially basketball -- were very big long before the pro teams came along. Not everybody is a Panthers or Bobcats or Hurricanes fan. But most people have a college team they root for and often are rabid about.

[naraht]

But by far the State with the most people and no Pro sports team is Virginia. 12th most populous with 8 million people. Least populous state with a pro sports team? That would be Utah at 34th with the Utah Jazz.