Mike Wilbon said Washington D.C isn't a sports town

[SubLyminalz]

i know more cowgirl, steeler, and ravens fans in the dmv from my experiences down there than skins fans.

 

[KBadd]

He's somewhat right

No he isn't, and that's why he took that shyt back.

I'm born and bred, so I actually took this bullshyt personally.

First of all, look at the major pro sports teams.

The Redskins, despite the owner being an ego-maniacal, ultra-capitalist piece of shyt and the team sucking big, floppy donkey dikk for the last 20 years, still manage to cram 85,000+ into Fed Ex Field every Sunday and control an entire region's sanity dependent solely on how they perform on Sunday's. And if you ever attended a game at RFK Stadium and experienced the entire stadium shake when the Eagles/Cowboys/Giants came to town, you'd probably punch Mike Wilbon if you ever saw that nikka on the streets. Does that count?

The Capitals have a fervent fan base and have sold out every seat in the place - whether it was at USAir Arena or now at the Verizon Center - for years. Does that count?

The Wizards have been one of the least successful franchises in the NBA since forever and are generally viewed as a laughingstock in basketball circles yet have still managed to draw 17,000+ for their home games since I can remember. Does that count?

We didn't have a baseball team here growing up, so I, much like many of my friends, became Orioles fans. We're fans like that. Does that count?

How many of those metro areas that he named have two high-major college basketball programs that historically have had as much success as Maryland and Georgetown? Does that count? Big John, a D.C. native building a basketball powerhouse at a small Jesuit in NW DC on his way to a Hall of Fame coaching career. Does that count?

WCAC (formerly the Metro conference) ... does that count? Morgan Wooten being the first basketball coach to coach exclusively at the high school level to be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame ... does that count?

I'd name sports legends and regular pros from here, but I'd take a minute and it's late, but it's exhaustive to say the least ... does that count?

All in all, dude was talking out of his ass and he knew it, hence him trying to walk that bullshyt back.

 

[brick james]

No he isn't, and that's why he took that shyt back.

I'm born and bred, so I actually took this bullshyt personally.

First of all, look at the major pro sports teams.

The Redskins, despite the owner being an ego-maniacal, ultra-capitalist piece of shyt and the team sucking big, floppy donkey dikk for the last 20 years, still manage to cram 85,000+ into Fed Ex Field every Sunday and control an entire region's sanity dependent solely on how they perform on Sunday's. And if you ever attended a game at RFK Stadium and experienced the entire stadium shake when the Eagles/Cowboys/Giants came to town, you'd probably punch Mike Wilbon if you ever saw that nikka on the streets. Does that count?

The Capitals have a fervent fan base and have sold out every seat in the place - whether it was at USAir Arena or now at the Verizon Center - for years. Does that count?

The Wizards have been one of the least successful franchises in the NBA since forever and are generally viewed as a laughingstock in basketball circles yet have still managed to draw 17,000+ for their home games since I can remember. Does that count?

We didn't have a baseball team here growing up, so I, much like many of my friends, became Orioles fans. We're fans like that. Does that count?

How many of those metro areas that he named have two high-major college basketball programs that historically have had as much success as Maryland and Georgetown? Does that count? Big John, a D.C. native building a basketball powerhouse at a small Jesuit in NW DC on his way to a Hall of Fame coaching career. Does that count?

WCAC (formerly the Metro conference) ... does that count? Morgan Wooten being the first basketball coach to coach exclusively at the high school level to be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame ... does that count?

I'd name sports legends and regular pros from here, but I'd take a minute and it's late, but it's exhaustive to say the least ... does that count?

All in all, dude was talking out of his ass and he knew it, hence him trying to walk that bullshyt back.

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all you need to do is peep attendance

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

No he isn't, and that's why he took that shyt back.

I'm born and bred, so I actually took this bullshyt personally.

First of all, look at the major pro sports teams.

The Redskins, despite the owner being an ego-maniacal, ultra-capitalist piece of shyt and the team sucking big, floppy donkey dikk for the last 20 years, still manage to cram 85,000+ into Fed Ex Field every Sunday and control an entire region's sanity dependent solely on how they perform on Sunday's. And if you ever attended a game at RFK Stadium and experienced the entire stadium shake when the Eagles/Cowboys/Giants came to town, you'd probably punch Mike Wilbon if you ever saw that nikka on the streets. Does that count?

The Capitals have a fervent fan base and have sold out every seat in the place - whether it was at USAir Arena or now at the Verizon Center - for years. Does that count?

The Wizards have been one of the least successful franchises in the NBA since forever and are generally viewed as a laughingstock in basketball circles yet have still managed to draw 17,000+ for their home games since I can remember. Does that count?

We didn't have a baseball team here growing up, so I, much like many of my friends, became Orioles fans. We're fans like that. Does that count?

How many of those metro areas that he named have two high-major college basketball programs that historically have had as much success as Maryland and Georgetown? Does that count? Big John, a D.C. native building a basketball powerhouse at a small Jesuit in NW DC on his way to a Hall of Fame coaching career. Does that count?

WCAC (formerly the Metro conference) ... does that count? Morgan Wooten being the first basketball coach to coach exclusively at the high school level to be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame ... does that count?

I'd name sports legends and regular pros from here, but I'd take a minute and it's late, but it's exhaustive to say the least ... does that count?

All in all, dude was talking out of his ass and he knew it, hence him trying to walk that bullshyt back.

If we were going to rank East Coast Sports Cities... DC would be above Miami and Atlanta... and those are some of the worst sports cities.

Philly,Pittsburgh,Baltimore,Boston,NY,Charlotte,NYC are many levels above DC in terms of being a sports town.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

If we were going to rank East Coast Sports Cities... DC would be above Miami and Atlanta... and those are some of the worst sports cities.

Philly,Pittsburgh,Baltimore,Boston,NY,Charlotte,NYC are many levels above DC in terms of being a sports town.

Hell no @ the underlined fam. And IMO Bmore and DC are equal as far as loyalty amongst the fanbases.

 

[KBadd]

If we were going to rank East Coast Sports Cities... DC would be above Miami and Atlanta... and those are some of the worst sports cities.

Philly,Pittsburgh,Baltimore,Boston,NY,Charlotte,NYC are many levels above DC in terms of being a sports town.

Based on what?!?!?!?

Wilbon never qualified his reasons as to why a city such as Philly or Boston is a better sports city than D.C. (which he initially said was terrible), but if we're judging it strictly on how passionate the fan base in each respective city is, I'd argue that D.C. fans are VERY passionate about its professional teams. Numbers don't lie.

I could debate the major cities you listed (Philly, Boston, NYC, etc..) that you listed, but Charlotte nikka?!?!?! CHARLOTTE?!?!? They got the fukking Panthers, Bobcats and the NASCAR Hall of Fame and you putting them ahead of D.C.

Man, please.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Based on what?!?!?!?

Wilbon never qualified his reasons as to why a city such as Philly or Boston is a better sports city than D.C. (which he initially said was terrible), but if we're judging it strictly on how passionate the fan base in each respective city is, I'd argue that D.C. fans are VERY passionate about its professional teams. Numbers don't lie.

I could debate the major cities you listed (Philly, Boston, NYC, etc..) that you listed, but Charlotte nikka?!?!?! CHARLOTTE?!?!? They got the fukking Panthers, Bobcats and the NASCAR Hall of Fame and you putting them ahead of D.C.

Man, please.

breh, just stop..and just admit you're catching feelings

First and foremost, you can't argue DC being ahead of any city that's not Atlanta or Miami.

@ you trying to debate DC> Boston,NYC,Philly,Pittsburgh


Charlotte? College basketball is religion there..but you must've forgot that.

You're being delusional in your attempt to defend your area. .

 

[KBadd]

A 4-MINUTE standing ovation (the longest in HOF history) for Art Monk when Redskins Nation invaded Canton the weekend he and Darrell Green were inducted into the HOF.

4 Minutes - YouTube

But yeah, _______ fans are clearly more passionate, better fans ... they have to be.

FOH.

 

[KBadd]

breh, just stop..and just admit you're catching feelings

First and foremost, you can't argue DC being ahead of any city that's not Atlanta or Miami.

@ you trying to debate DC> Boston,NYC,Philly,Pittsburgh


Charlotte? College basketball is religion there..but you must've forgot that.

You're being delusional in your attempt to defend your area. .

I'm being delusional?

First of all, you haven't given one reason why you believe any of the cities you named are better sports cities than D.C. Not one. Pittsburgh is better? Why? Philly better? Why?

I went to attendance figures. You want to say the fans don't give a fukk? Then why do they continue to support the teams in person? That's my argument. What's yours?

And fukk Charlotte. I'm fully aware people are serious about college basketball in the state of North Carolina but when the fukk did the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, N.C. State and Duke move their campuses to Charlotte? Raleigh/Durham is three fukking hours away from Charlotte, that shyt don't count.

Again, FOH.

 

[Liquid]

I stopped paying attention to anything this clown says after he said Mayweather is scared of Manny and will lose easily or something like that.

 

[The Bilingual Gringo]

Abe did build that arena, and gave money to charities to compensate for the shyt teams he put out every year.

DC really doesnt have a patriarch of sports or whatever BS term he chose to create.

and Steinberg is wrong and seems like a new resident to this area type, Georgetown bball>>The Capitals. If UMD/GTown ever played again in basketball, it would be the biggest non-Redskins story in this town, barring any other team winning a title.

Living in NoVA it's hard to picture that as all I see is Caps stuff floating around whenever they're on a streak or looking good. I would only hope that the Hoyas come back, I'd love to see them return.

And I hate the fact that UMD is considered part of the area. Reminds me of rooting for the O's because it was the closest baseball team.

 

[dennis roadman]

Living in NoVA it's hard to picture that as all I see is Caps stuff floating around whenever they're on a streak or looking good. I would only hope that the Hoyas come back, I'd love to see them return.

And I hate the fact that UMD is considered part of the area. Reminds me of rooting for the O's because it was the closest baseball team.

PG county is more "part of the area" than any part of northern virginia, any day, hands down, full stop.

dude up there said charlotte is a great sports town

they barely like the panthers in charlotte

 

[OG Talk]

D.C. is a great sports town... Only problem is they don't root for the teams in the town...From what I've observed it's an area full of Cowboys, Lakers and Miami Hurricane fans...

Like Miami and Atlanta they just seem to have a hype beast mentality...

Everyone has an iphone, wears Jordans and everyones favorite rapper is Jay-Z...N1ggas with zero imagination...They just look at the poll numbers and roll with the winners...

 

[Real Talk of NY]

Chicago is the best sports town in the US breh. Them nikkas show up rain or shine.

dont get it twisted breh. NYC Sports >> anywhere

8 professional teams 2 in each sport

Knicks
Nets
Mets
Yankees
Jets
Giants
Islanders
Rangers

 

[mastermind]

breh, just stop..and just admit you're catching feelings

First and foremost, you can't argue DC being ahead of any city that's not Atlanta or Miami.

@ you trying to debate DC> Boston,NYC,Philly,Pittsburgh


Charlotte? College basketball is religion there..but you must've forgot that.

You're being delusional in your attempt to defend your area. .

Charlotte? The fukk?