Answer the question correctly, and win a prize!!! (Well, not really...)

[SmileyBoy]

OK, here's the question:

What is the LARGEST metropolitan area in the United States (in population) that doesn't have a major-league professional sports franchise (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL)???

And a bonus question: What's the metro area's population???

I'll have the answer for you later.

[GOPisEvil]

1. My first impulse is to guess Las Vegas.

[SmileyBoy]

2. Nope.

Although in a few years, it'll probably be Vegas, so if this was 2010, you'd be right.:D

[Snoggera]

3. Toledo or Wannachee

or maybe Fort Worth?

I'm shootin' blanks here.

[Bog Frog]

4. Omaha, NE? OKC, OK? Columbia, SC?

:shrug:

[SmileyBoy]

6. Nope, nope, nope.

:)

[Bog Frog]

12. Helena, MT? Cheyenne or Jackson Hole, WY? Honolulu, HI? Anchorage, AK?

[SmileyBoy]

14. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

:)

[Bog Frog]

Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap.

I give.

[JohnLocke]

5. San Antonio?

[SmileyBoy]

The Spurs.

:D

[SmileyBoy]

7. dupe

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. Newark?

eom

[SmileyBoy]

9. Newark's in the NYC metro.

Guess again.

[pres2032]

10. Flagstaff? Tempe? Reno? Bismark?

[SmileyBoy]

11. I wish it was Bismarck.

:D

[pres2032]

15. what about the other three?

[SmileyBoy]

19. Wrong, wrong and wrong.

:)

[JohnLocke]

13. Phoenix??

[GOPisEvil]

16. Uh....Suns, Coytoes, Diamondbacks, Cardinals (football)

They have all 4. :D

[FARAFIELD]

24. thats easy... greensboro

only because i live there. it used to be Columbus Oh but they got the blue jackets. Raliegh, durham has the hurricanes and charlotte has the panthers, but Greensboro, High point, winstons has squat.

[SmileyBoy]

27. Nope, not Greensboro.

The NHL Hurricanes are located there.:)

[SmileyBoy]

17. Phoenix has every sport.

Cardinals, D-Backs, Suns and Jets-I mean-Coyotes.

[pres2032]

18. NFL, Cardinals

[Jack Rabbit]

21. NFL Cardinals. (((GONG)))

!!

[JohnLocke]

20. Kansas City??

[Bog Frog]

26. Royals & Chiefs

[FarmerOak]

22. Hawaii? n/t

[GOPisEvil]

Honolulu - great guess!

Right or wrong, that's a good guess!

[chrisesq]

23. Austin TX.? -- Pop 656,000

[SmileyBoy]

25. You're close (population-wise), but NOPE.

:)

[JohnLocke]

28. San Diego??

[pres2032]

31. chargers, padres

[Reverend_Smitty]

29. Va. Beach?

Im graspin for straws here!

[SmileyBoy]

36. DING DING DING DING DING!!! Hot dog, we have a weiner!!!

You are correct!!! Hampton Roads (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Newport News), VA has 1,569,541 people in 2000!!!

[Reverend_Smitty]

40. yay I win...

Total guess!!!

[Snoggera]

45. And just what did you have to promise Satan

for that tidbit of information? HHHHMMMMMMMM???????

congrats!

[Reverend_Smitty]

48. Just my soul

No biggie really! :evilgrin:

[pres2032]

30. Tallahase (sp?)?

[chrisesq]

32. Memphis TN -- Pop 600 or so thousand as well.

[FarmerOak]

Grizzlies

[pres2032]

33. titans, NFL

[GOPisEvil]

35. Titans play in Nashville.

Although, when they first moved to TN, they played in Memphis for a season or two.

[pres2032]

38. ah ok, right

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[JohnLocke]

37. San Bernardino??

[SmileyBoy]

39. OK, here's a bonus question (READ THIS):

What is the smallest metro area in the US that has a major-league professional sports franchise???

[JohnLocke]

41. Green Bay Packers??

[SmileyBoy]

46. Correct, Green Bay. (Metro Pop. 282,599)

OK, I'm done.

[JohnLocke]

47. Woo-hoo!

[pres2032]

42. millwaukee?

[Reverend_Smitty]

43. Green Bay?

[Bog Frog]

44. Washington, DC