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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Kansas City: No 6 on "Worst Cities to be a sports fan"

Here we go--another of Forbes Magazine's ratings and, well, we knew we'd be on this one, didn't we?

No. 6 Kansas City

Teams: Chiefs (NFL); Royals (MLB)
Median Household Income/Fan Cost Index: $46,193 / $266.68 (12th)
Teams' combined winning percentage: .433 (25th)
Playoff Appearances: 0
Championships: 0
Ticket prices are reasonable, but the Royals just can't shake over a decade's worth of the doldrums. The franchise has had just one winning season since 1995.
It's a good thing we aren't ranked by just our Major League Baseball team or we'd definitely, I'd think, be in one of the top two spots, if not number one.

And this isn't even factoring in what we stooges have had to pay the rich fatcats in order to spruce up their stadiums so they can make their millions.  And by fatcats, I mean the greedhead owners and the multi-millionaire players, both.  All the millions of dollars they gouge out of us and look at those numbers above in playoff appearances and championships.  Ugh.
If there's good news on this, it's that Indianapolis is ranked even worse than we are, at number 3.  I don't know about you, but that made me feel slightly better.

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