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Originally Posted by White Out 403
And yet in north america, teams routinely move from city to city. the flames threatened to move in order to get an arena, and in the NFL its even worse where teams relocate like its no big deal. I think thats bad for fans.
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No they don't move "like it's no big deal". NFL have had 9 moves since 1982, 3 were the Raiders moving back and forth from Oakland to LA, 3 were the Rams moving from LA to St. Louis and back to LA. Both of these teams have happened because of politicians promising stadiums then changing their minds again.
MLB has had 6 relocations of franchises since 1960.
NHL has had 7 since 1980 with 2 of them have been teams leaving Atlanta for different reasons (lack of owners). Quebec and Winnipeg lost teams because no owner would step up and eat the losses and since Betman came in he has only allowed Winnipeg to leave to Arizona (already approved before he took over) and a quick sale to Winnipeg of Atlanta because the owners in Atlanta wouldn't allow them to play in the arena (also didn't hurt having David Thompson backing the Winnipeg offer). The transfer of Hartford to Carolina was allowed because the team couldn't play in a 10,000 seat arena either.