Or a Rugby team there is a Major league Rugby league with teams in LA and Atl.
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Homie I generally appreciate your discussion points and comments, but I had to stop taking this one seriously right here. Youâre on some goooooood stuff if you seriously think Americans will stop watching/playing football because of the CTE risks. Football literally played a hand in ending segregation in US colleges LMAO. The NFL has scandal after scandal after scandal and yet makes billions upon billions more year after year. Football is going absolutely nowhere in America.
GO BILLS!
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I looked it up, and what apparently kicked off the growth of soccer in the US was when the NCAA first sanctioned it in 1959.
If weâre going to go big on cricket, maybe start there.
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Let me assure you that my belief that Americans will stop watching/playing football because of the CTE risks is every bit as serious and genuine as my belief that global climate change will lead to the death of ice hockey in the near future.
Title IX makes it somewhat challenging for universities to add menâs varsity sports, but at the club level, the sportâs promoters are already way ahead of you. NC State apparently already has a club team. Notwithstanding the challenges, investing in a varsity cricket team could be a savvy way for a university to attract students, and the early adopters would certainly have a substantial advantage as the sport gains popularity at the collegiate level.
Raleigh: The Bat-And-Ball Capital of the World.
Sooo, not serious then?
Youâre aware they play ice hockey indoors, right?
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I tried watching cricket once, but had no clue what was going on. Kind of like baseball but even more boring because I had no clue what was going on. But obviousy, plenty of people like it around the world, so there must be something to it.
Donât cricket matches last like 3 days? That will never fly in the US. Especially with the tiktok generation coming of age with their 10 second attention spans.
Having said that, Isnât there a world class Cricket facility in Cary or Morrisville?
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Like @Kanatenah said, Morrisville is already in on this.
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Major League Cricket will use the Twenty20 (T20) format of cricket, which was invented in 2003 and has absolutely taken the cricket world by storm in less than two decades. Matches last about three hours or less, so roughly on par with a baseball game, and proceed at a much faster pace. Itâs the format used by the wildly successful India Premier League, and the one that will soon become part of the Olympics, possibly as soon as LA2028. (Test matches last five days. One Day International matches last ⌠um, one day.)
I grew up in suburban Philadelphia, where in my youth we occasionally played pickup ice hockey games outdoors when the pond froze over. It can be done, and not just as part of a Stadium Series. So please rest assured that I do not suffer from any shortage of hockey-related knowledge.
disregard. Charlotte Sting already mentioned.
I just canât with this postâŚ
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I grew up playing hockey around the Raleigh area, was recruited by a prep school just north of Boston to play hockey, played against some guys in the 'chel (Chris Kreider), and I can count the amount of times Iâve played hockey on a pond on one hand. I can tell you right now that warm weather does not prevent people from playing the sport. Believe it or not, youth hockey has grown beyond the traditional hockey areas like the Northeast, Minnesota area, etc⌠All that to say, I donât think climate change will lead to the death of ice hockey in the near future⌠It might just become more expensiveâŚ
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I think most people got the point of the original point, but since not everyone did and weâre now talking about ice hockey instead, the data does seem to support what common sense would dictate, which is that ice hockey is a vastly more popular participation sport in places with colder climates. (Yes, this is from 2011, but I doubt things have changed much in 11 years.)
https://archive.nytimes.com/slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/hockeys-heartland-state-by-state/
The part about climate change was a joke, but the trend of the population moving to the sunbelt almost certainly acts as a bit of a drag on hockeyâs growth. In the end, though, none of that is terribly important unless you work in the hockey industry. The NHL has been a clear fourth behind the NFL, MLB, and NBA since at least the 1950s, and will continue to be until it is inevitably surpassed by Major League Cricket in a few decades.
You figure cricket will pass hockey before soccer? Hmm
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I have met exactly one person that plays circket, and he was from India. If any league passes NHL, it will be MLS, and not a league that hasnât even played any games yet.
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The leagues arguably best player (Auston Matthews) learned to play and lived his whole life in Phoenix Arizona. He was also born from parents originally from Mexico and California so he had zero family history in hockey or anywhere near cold weather and was inspired to play from the Phoenix Coyotes.
Oh, soccer is already more popular in the U.S. than hockey is, but the NHL is significantly more popular than MLS is, because most of the interest in soccer in the U.S. is captured by leagues in other countries. MLS celebrates its 30th anniversary next year, and itâs still only a small fraction of the size of the NHL, so, no, I donât expect MLS to surpass the NHL in popularity while any of us are alive.
Clinging, tenaciously, to the point of the original post, I suppose that does bring up one major constraint on the the growth of Major League Cricket: it will always be significantly smaller than the India Premier League. The interesting question, then, is could a U.S.-based cricket league capture enough of the international cricket market to become bigger than MLS is? In all seriousness, that would be the work of many decades. But, yeah, I think itâs possible.
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UncleJessie is right thatâs isnât a racist comment. There plenty of Indians in Morrisville.
MLS apparently to San Diego. Know RDU getting a team is unlikely, but even more so now I suppose.
To be fair this might be replacing the rumored Vegas team which itself replaced a planned Sacramento team that had the rug pulled up from under them.
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Las Vegas hasnât gotten any news from them, lately. San Diego a great market
Yep MLB to Raleigh is our only hope and Downtown South could fulfill that dream.
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