Cities that should never have championship teams

Somebody correct me. The Detroit Red Wings are playing the Pittsburgh Penguins in some kind of hockey semi-final. So too, God help Me, are the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that nobody in Southern California cares about hockey. Unfortunately, with the expansion of the league teams like the Mighty Ducks (I'm told that the name comes from a movie: how Southern Cal apropos) now have enough baksheesh to purchase expensive foreign players and win.

Any hockey team that competes with surfing for attention shouldn't win. It is an act of God against God.

Who should win? Some kind of wretched place like Ottowa. Failing that, a real working class place like Detroit or Pittsburgh. These are cities that have almost no in-migration for jobs for years, and are made up of people who have been there for generations. They actually care about Hockey!

Last year was almost perfect in that it shut out trashy nouveu-rich Sunbelt "cities" like God help me Orlando (even more spread out than Atlanta). Detroit won in Hockey, and Boston in basketball. LA looks like they're going to win in b-ball, but that's OK, since LA has now become a real city through two of the most destructive riots in the nation's history.

Its joke-ass "places" like Carolina that should properly be hated. The football team and I guess basketball team (the Hurricanes?) should whither and die, because of this: since when is "Carolina" a place? North or South? East or West? They play in Charlotte, which bizarrely hopes to be the next Atlanta, which to me connotes that they mean to capture the ugly and worthless crown among the nation's cities.

So let's hear it for the places that care, for the places that generation on generation root for the same team: Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, and of course tiny Green Bay.

NOTE:

The non-performance of the Washington Nationals is of serious consequence. If another baseball team leaves the DC area it will be said, stupidly, that DC is "not a baseball town." But even with the new stadium, the team constantly ranks as (often) the worst team in baseball. The old saying was "Washington; first in war, first in peace, and last in the American League East."
But we're talking about a place that went from just over two million people when the Senators left in 1971 to a market of over five million now. That's right, the DC area is over twice the size it was then. It's the eighth largest media market in the nation. It's also, by some estimates, the wealthiest metro area in the nation: will area residents again have to make the pilgrimage to much smaller but protalitarian Baltimore for baseball?