Boston: The best sports town ever?

[MaineDolFan]

If you're counting all sports-

#1 - NY has 51
#2 - Toronto has 37
#3 - Montreal has 33
#4 - Boston has 32
#5 - Chicago has 23

The two Canadian cities is a little skewed because of Toronto's 37 champions - a bunch of them are in professional hockey leagues that don't exist anymore.  But between the Leafs and the CFL team's, they have a lot of titles.  They even have three World Series titles.

If you're going on "major sports" only (NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL) it's New York, Boston, Montreal, Toronto.  Over half of NY's titles come in MLB...and it's been a little while for them.

[bsmooth]

Title Town is Green Bay.  Come up with a new nickname for yourselves.

Or the team that has more championships than the Celtics, Sox, and Pats combined.

[simeon]

Right now, I mean.

I can't think of a team that's had this level of success all at once.

The Red Sox, 2 world championships.
The Patriots, 3 world championships.
The Celtics, 1 world championship.

And all three could very well win again this year.

...all in the same time frame of a few years.

Don't want to burst your bubble here but if you are arguing best sports city of all time you must ellimenate the Patriots, they do not play in Boston.

[Guru-In-Vegas]

The Dolphins don't play in Miami either.  They're still Miami.

[simeon]

The statement was Boston is the greatest sportstown, it might be so.
But still the facts remain that the Patriots are NOT part of Boston and most be removed from the equation.

The Dolphins don't play in Miami either.  They're still Miami.

That is because the Dolphins did play in Miami only to move to Fort Launderdale when Joe Robbie stadium was built. The Boston Patriots changed their names after they moved out of Boston when they played at Fenway Park, and now they reside near Rhode Isle in a little town called Foxboro. I do not consider the Dolphins as part of Miami anymore then I believe the Giants to be part of New york.

[MaineDolFan]

Aren't we really talking about regions here and not actual cities?  What team plays in the actual city that they represent?  The Pistons don't, the Giants and Jets don't, there are more.

That is really a tick-tacking stance to take.

[SportsChick]

At least Foxboro is still part of Massachusetts, unlike the NY Giants who play in a totally different STATE

[Fau Teixeira]

for the record .. dolphin stadium isn't in broward county .. it's in miami-dade county

[Dave Gray]

I assume we're all able to recognize the major metropolitan areas that are serviced with certain teams.

Miami = Marlins, Dolphins, Heat, Panthers
Boston = Pats, Celtics, Bruins, Sox

Although, I think you have to split up New York, maybe, since they have multiple teams that are for different parts of the city.

Giants, Rangers, Yankees, Knicks on one side
and
Mets, Nets, Jets, Islanders on the other.

[StL FinFan]

All of our sports venues are downtown.  So are Cincinnati's.  Kansas City's are right outside of downtown.