Why does New York have two football teams??
957485
Simply put, that's where the people and the money are.  They actually have three teams, when you count the Buffalo Bills.  And to correct some of the preceding answers, Florida actually has THREE teams - the Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
446049
The question is teams.
775952
Candlestick is a very old stadium and if they were going to try upgrading it, it would probably cost as much or more than a new stadium.  It sounds like they are moving to Santa Clara, but they'll probably keep the San Francisco name just like the Giants and Jets kept the New York portion of their name when they moved to New Jersey.
936004
NFL has 32 teams.\nNBA has 30 teams.\nMLB has 30 teams.\n\nSo to answer your question, the National football league has 32 teams.
327219
I am a lifetime Knicks, Yankees, Rangers, and Giants fan. I have never heard of Yankee fans hateing on Knicks fans, thats new to me. I figured all new york like other nyc teams, except for mets fans likeing yankee fans , jets and giants. Go NYC teams. Funny i'm from Jersey.
731485
No they dont! There are some pretty bad teams in the NFL. The Lions for one. Redskins may not be as good as the hype was for this season, but ease up. There not horrible. As for the comment below me, everyone in the DC area is minor?! What the heck are you talking about? Have you heard of the Wizards or DC United?! Orioles and Nationals may not be good but there popular and well known.
316141
The reason why the Yankees has such a great team is because they have all the money.  mean all they have to do is go to another team ask for whoever and have alot of money almost all the teams need the money mean they will accept.\n                         GO CUBBIES!!!!!!!
201152
normally... if the city have two or more clubs, they should use name different name for their team. Sometime.. the team dont use their city name\n\nAnyway.. if you are talking about special characteristic of the team, ... some teams have their own special name. eg:\n1. Manchester United FC = The Red Devils\n2. Arsenal FC = The Gunners\n3. Liverpool FC = The Mighty Reds\n4. Chelsea FC = The Blues\n5. Southampton = The Saint\n6. ......
15422
No, I'm not a Steeler fan. As for why they are all over the place, I don't know. You wouldn't believe how many Steeler fans are here in New York.\n\nGo JETS in '06!
158829
Like everyone else said, they don't want any team to have a home-field advantage. Also, you are talking about tens of thousands of people coming to the site of the Super Bowl. These people all need hotels, airfare and othere accomodations. Trying to plan something this big with only one or two weeks notice would be a complete disaster. There are some NFL cities (like Green Bay) that simply could never handle that many people at once on short notice. Jacksonville had trouble with it a few years ago, and they had plenty of warning. This needs to be planned out years in advance. Plus the NFL likes to reward cities (like Detroit, or Houston last year) that build shiny new stadiums for their teams. They don't want the Super Bowl to be played in a dump.
365908
one he did a very good arm, second he played in new york, won the super bowl, wore a mink coat on sidelands, played in new york, made a huge amount of money and finally played in new york. the new york media kinda makes there hometown heroes immortal in sports world.
1100995
The Wikipedia links have much of the story, but the real answer is that the team owners decide, usually by authorizing the league to make changes.  Today that would be a decision of all the owners on behalf of MLB, as when the leagues expanded and when the Milwaukee Brewers were moved from the American to the National League.\n\nWhy do some states (and cities) have teams in both leagues?  Competition, pure and simple.  The American League itself was founded for that reason, and it was why the original Baltimore Orioles became the New York Yankees.  In fact, part of the 1905 agreement that established the World Series as an annual affair specified that the American League would not move a franchise to Pittsburgh to compete with the Pirates.\n\nThe New York Mets and Houston Astros - indeed all of the expansion franchises and most of the recent franchise moves -also exist because of competition.  When the Giants moved to San Francisco, a minority shareholder who opposed the move, Joan Payson (who also unsuccessfully tried to buy the Giants from Horace Stoneham and thus prevent the move), had enough money to back a new major league, the Continental League, which would have teams in Atlanta, Buffalo, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York and Toronto.  (All these cities except Buffalo now have major league teams.)   The AL and NL folded and added four new teams, the others being the second Washington Senators franchise (now the Rangers) and the Los Angeles Angels (no "of Anaheim" in those days).  The man who organized the Continental League, William A. Shea, is the man for whom Shea Stadium is named.  Payson became the first owner of the Mets.\n\nSometimes moves occur because the team owner wishes to move to greener pastures, as with the Giants, Dodgers, Athletics, the Milwaukee (ex-Boston) Braves and the Seattle Pilots (now the Brewers).
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Probably the same reason Oregon, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, and others don't have an NFL team.\n\nThere are only 32 of them and 50 states.\n\nOr, add Cleveland to the list above without an NFL team and say there are only 31 of them.
107937
how come u have 3 teams?
237396
NY Jets and NY Giants....wouldnt that be an all NJ Super Bowl?? Isnt Buffalo the only NY team that plays in NY? I would rather see an all PA Super Bowl!
796658
Absolutely behind u on that.Some of these smaller cities have but one news paper,so naturally NY would dominate.Besides there is a lot of money behind them and they want to keep their jobs.It has been biased from day one.If these smaller franchise could spend money on players like the Yankees have, they wouldn't have won all those championships.
811754
New England is the Northeast region of the United States.  It includes Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.  Then there's the Carolina Panthers, which could represent both of the Carolina states.  You could also make an argument that either the New York Jets or the New York Giants represent the state of New York.\nHowever, most teams are noted for the cities they are in, like the Seattle Seahawks, Miami Dolphins or the Kansas City Cheifs just to name a few.\nIf the team is the only team in the state, then it just might actually represent the state by virtue of being the only team in that state.\nDoes this help?