Sundeep, you might get a little more respect if you realized that you do not speak for Edmonton. You dont care about lacrosse... and yet you found the need to totally derail this topic. Go figure.
Edmonton actually has a larger lacrosse community than Calgary does. And while I dont care at all about university sport, if you do, I am not going to belittle your opinion.
That would be because I have something you lack: class.
If you get past all of the rhetoric and bullshyte, you will realize that Calgary and Edmonton are very similar sporting cities.
We both have the NHL. We both have highly supported secondary teams. There are three AJHL teams in Metro Edmonton, while there are two in Calgary, and a third in the metro area coming next year.
We both have CFL teams that are the envy of the rest of the country for our fan support.
We both had AAA baseball, and now we both have NorL baseball.
We both could care less about minor pro soccer.
Edmonton has been successful at hosting the lesser world soccer championships, while Calgary has done well with things like Davis Cup Tennis. On the balance, neither are very important to Canadians.
Edmonton hosted a track meet that the world may have cared about, but North America doesnt. Calgary hosted an olympics that North America cared about, but much of the world probably didnt.
Calgary has an NLL team, while Edmonton would have had one had an owner stepped up before the league changed the ownership rules. As it is, Edmonton will land a lacrosse club within a couple years - if the Oilers or Eskimos step up.
The Drillers havent folded yet, but the owner that abandoned them wanted to put a team in Edmonton. In either case - as entertaining as the games themselves are - the ABA is nothing to be bragging about.
The two cities are so closely related in the sporting world that belittling one is akin to belittling the other.
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