With baseball season over for the Seattle Mariners and with both the NHL season starting and the NBA season about to kick off in two and a half weeks, the city of Seattle only has the Seahawks and the Sounders to cheer for. But you know, Seattle really should be cheering for their own NHL team and NBA as well. Back on July 31st of this year, Forbes came out with an article calling Seattle one of the most miserable sports cities in America. The article said that the city's sports teams have combined for 115 years and have only seen the playoffs 11 times with the only major championship coming from the 1979 Seattle Sonics.
Now, I will admit that the of Seattle has had its bad luck with sports teams; with the Sonics being taken from us in 2008, the Mariners winning 116 games in 2001 and not winning the World Series and has yet to make the playoffs since, and the worst part is that the last two titles we have seen have come from the Seattle Storm!
Right now though the city has the Seahawks as a possible Super Bowl contender and the Washington Huskies ranked at #16 in the country, so that's a start. But here's the thing, Seattle shouldn't just have the Seahawks, Mariners, and Sounders to cheer for the city should still have an NBA team here and should have had an NHL team a long time ago to cheer for. If we had that then guess what? Seattle would have sports teams to cheer for all year long.
Chris Hansen is doing his best still to bring the Sonics back to Seattle and with the new arena plan getting all done he's also on the hunt for an NHL team. So, the question is; Will Seattle see an NBA and an NHL team come?
The answer is yes. As the 15th largest Metropolitan Statistical Area and the 12th US TV market, the Puget Sound region is the largest market in the United States that has two of the traditional major sports major leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL) represented. Considering the region's incredibly strong corporate base, and the fact that Seattle is also among the fastest growing and most affluent major markets in the US, I believe that Seattle could easily support 5 teams.
Now, what is the time frame for the wait for an NBA and NHL team? I say another 2 or 3 years until Seattle sees the NBA and the NHL come to the city.
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Im a huge Seattle sports nut. Thats basically about me. But im an upcoming blogger who writes only about the Mariners, Seahawks, Sounders, and when they come back the Sonics. Now if you would like me to write about something tweet me and i will write it. Now i should mark that im also Irish and have a beard that is feared above Brian Wilson's beard. His beard can kiss my beard's ass!
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