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Originally Posted by svlt
The US sports market is always a little inflated given that the leagues are based in the US and primarily serve the US consumption. Denver is definitely saturated for its size with all Big 4 teams and an MLS team though, I don't think any other city has that level of exposure per population.
Also the Denver MSA is (like all US MSAs) huge geographically, covering an area 8 times the size of Metro Vancouver's with only about 500,000 more people. If we take the entire Lower Mainland as an analogous area to the Denver MSA, we come up with similar populations for both cities - close to 3 million. I believe the actual eyeballs/attendees would be similar in both cities, but we just have the Canucks and an MLS team as opposed to their five teams. Can't really count the CFL as remotely comparable to any Big 4 team. I do think Vancouver can successfully support an additional major league team here.
With that said on a per capita basis though I think Montreal and San Diego have it much worse.
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I feel like LA is for San Diego what Seattle is for Vancouver but more accessible since they don't have to go through the hassle of the border and currency exchange. The distances for travel are about the same. LA has 2 of each major sports team so would it really even make sense putting 4 major sports teams 2 hours away? Especially if a lot of the population in the city is probably already big fans of the Lakers/Chargers/Rams etc.
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