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Originally Posted by JHikka
None of these things are possible in North America. It's where North American leagues lose out on maintaining interest in larger cities and smaller regions as a whole.
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They only lose out to a point. The biggest leagues in the US like NFL, MLB and NBA have pretty good interest across that country even where they don't have teams. It's tougher for the NHL and MLS to generate interest in regions with no teams or even in areas where local teams are out of the running.
CFL is similarly challenged in Canada.
The NHL playoffs used to be followed across Canada quite intensively regardless of who was playing, but that seems to be changing quite rapidly, and heavy focus in now more restricted to local clubs in our cities, and Canadian clubs more broadly.
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