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Originally Posted by subterranean
A little weird, but I think they are the de facto teams for that region of the south, drawing from a larger area, which has a lot of good sports history and culture at the collegiate level.
There are stranger situations, at least to me. Green Bay/Milwaukee is strange to me. Jacksonville having NFL has never not been weird to me. Portland not having a pro baseball team is incredibly weird to me.
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New Orleans got the basketball team because the owner of the Charlotte Hornets moved it there. I don't think they would have gotten a basketball team otherwise. I believe that their football team has a well-established and rabid base, so it is not going anywhere, much like the Green Bay Packers will likely never move.