salbutera
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No one said otherwise - IMO no city in North America can match the vibrancy, safety (still is relatively speaking), and joie de vivre from May thru SeptAgreed 100 percent about the city thing. It's always some losers who don't know Montreal who a) somehow became Habs fans b) clearly don't know the first thing about it.
We're cool with our internationally renowned city, they can worry about their hole-in-the-wall town that no one here comments on or is concerned with.
But NA pro sports isn’t about international renown or culture or cool factor, it’s about $$$$ - namely for leagues it’s identifying locations with well heeled / deep pocketed owners who can leverage local corporate $$ in a market with a sizable di$posable income population who can & want to $pend fanatically on sports and in return maximize media deal$$$$.
For players it’s about how much can I make & $tash in the short time I’m a pro athlete
MLB expanded to Mtl not Toronto or Vancouver in 1969 for a specific reason and it wasn’t culture or international renown …. Mtl was the economic engine of Canada.
Mtl’s heyday as a sports town - Habs, Expos, Alouettes, Manic - was at its peak of economic dominance in the same breath as NYC, London, Paris
Truly is unfortunate how it’s fallen economically but that’s just reality not “bigotry”
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