NYC has to be the best pro sports town in America. If you've ever lived near it, you know what I mean. Folks there have a devotion to their city that I just haven't seen anywhere else. Then, the city is big enough to create cross-town rivalries at the professional level. The closest I've seen is the state of NC for college basketball; but that's only one sport and it takes a whole state.
I'd nominate Montreal for the worst, but the Habs have a grand tradition. Washington was a bad sports town when I lived there 40 years ago. Everyone grew up somewhere else, so the point of the Washington teams was to watch your hometown team beat up on the Redskins and Senators.
Orlando strikes me as an awful pro sports town, but they really only have the Magic. It's a lousy place to be a local, so I don't think the folks who live there have much civic pride.
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