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As mentioned with Chicago and the NFL, it is not just statistics that matter, but the human element. Boston could support another baseball team, with how popular the sport is there, but who would switch from being a Red Sox fan? Same with Chicago and the NFL, Chicago and the NBA, St. Louis and MLB, etc.

What you need are enough people that are not fans of the local team, but want to be fans of a local team and have that local tie-in. There are only a few realistic chances.

Toronto and the NHL, where a team is either put in Hamilton or the Toronto suburbs, is one. There have been bids put in for an expansion team in the GTA in the last few years. There are enough people in Ontario that are huge hockey fans but are not Maple Leafs fans. Some are Sabres fans, if they live between Hamilton and Buffalo. Some are Senators fans, if they live way east of Toronto. Some are Red Wings fans, if they live out near London. Some follow rival teams, like the Canadiens and Flyers. Some follow random Canadian or northern US teams, like the Flames, Bruins, or Blackhawks. Some are just anti-Maple Leafs. All of this could be enough to pull in people who want a local team.

New York and MLB is the other. Apparently northern New Jersey is the most ripe market for MLB, moreso than Montreal, San Antonio, or Las Vegas. What is tough with this market is that most are strong Yankees fans. But the Mets exist, catering to Brookluyn, Queens, and the rest of Long Island. So a team with a true New Jersey identity could work.

I wonder if a second NHL team could go in Montreal. There used to be the Maroons, which were the Anglophone team, and the Canadiens were originally the Francophone team. Are there enough people in the Montreal area who are not Canadien fans?

By the way, I don't see Los Angeles working with two NFL teams, even though there are enough people without any real loyalty, or without a team. The Rams are struggling to get fans, and the Chargers are really struggling to get fans. If you go to a Rams game, you will see some Raiders and Cowboys jerseys. Maybe down the road these people convert to Rams fans, and maybe the new stadium gets people more invested in the Rams, but as it stands now, there is not as much of a local connection to the Rams and Chargers as the NFL would like to think.