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Originally Posted by kyuss275
I have to ask has anybody on cp ever lived in Utah? If so what’s it like? I remember decades ago Dennis Rodman didn’t like it. Lol
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I still do live in Utah!
As far as a post on the other thread by Erick Estrada, about SLC metro only having 1.2M residents, a team in SLC would also cover the professional sports deserts of Idaho and Wyoming, as well as Utah, as a "home" market, so the TV market is larger than would be expected.
The state is a huge plateau desert, geographically. There are a lot of animals that could be used for mascot/logo, including dinosaurs, which there are a lot of fossil deposits near where I live. SLC is fairly affluent, and there is a lot of tech money, available. Competition for winter sports money would be with an ECHL team in West Valley (which has about 6000/year as attendance), and the Jazz, which would be owned by the same owners that are fronting the cash for the relocation. As I said, the TV reach would be, geographically, large, include Idaho, Wyoming, and Northern Nevada.