Los Angeles is much better than New York City
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by user The Beast
Yep, I said it. We all know its true. Los Angeles is a better city and has a better sports atmosphere than New York City.
Los Angeles features sports on all levels, while New York does not. In LA we don't just have overpaid professionals running around, but college athletes too. USC and UCLA both have the most national titles of any other Division 1-A school. UCLA has 99 and USC is up in the early 90's. Besides the big two, LA has many other smaller universities. Pepperdine, Long Beach State, Cal State Fullerton (who won the College World Series), Loyal Marymount, etc. New York doesn't feature college athletics. Or at least Division 1-A. Do you ever see NYU putting up a basketball team. In LA we have a hotbed for future stars, Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart, Paul Pierce, Tyson Chandler, Jeff Suppan, Mark Loretta, Freddy Sanchez, Tiger Woods etc. In LA, you can go to high school games and watch many future college and pro stars compete from football to baseball to golf.
Besides the fact, that LA owns New York in college and high school sports, LA also features better pro teams. The Lakers and Dodgers are two of the most successful professional sports franchises of all-time with 20 combined world championships. The Angels and Clippers are two up and coming teams. The Raiders and Rams both left, LA, but they have both won a combined 7 league championships. When do the Knicks win anything?
I know you can throw out the fact that the Yankees have 26 world championships. But look how many they won prior to 1960. The answer is 8? 18 came before the Angels even existed.
So it is clear that LA really dominated New York when it comes to high school, college, and pro. So when does LA really prove its superiority.
The Fans! Yup, LA fans are the best in the world. I know we get a lot of crap about coming late and leaving early, but maybe that has to do with the fact that we are busy. This isn't Utah or Ohio were the isn't much else to do on a Saturday. So even if many do come late and leave early that doesn't dtermine the quality of a fan.
In LA, we don't boo. How many times at the NFL Draft do we find the fans booing a selection. This is a twenty year old kid walking on stage, living his dream and the fans boo the pick. Really Classy, huh. LA fans typically don't boo and are very low key. They usually don't whine about picks, write blogs, etc. Most of us just hope for the best and for the team to play hard. Most of all, do you wonder why we don't have an NFL team here. It is because most ANgelones don't wish to pay for a stadium. We have told the NFL not to build one with our money. Go do it yourself. We will not bend over backwards for the NFL. We do have USC. USC or the Texans? Take your pick.
So I guess, LA is just a better sports town. While we may be equal ito New YOrk in terms of professional sports, we clearly have better college and high sports, plus an overall better fan base.
Whats your take?
