Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/U.S. cities with teams from five major sports

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The result of the debate was delete. Rossami (talk) 02:45, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

U.S. cities with teams from five major sports

This is a list which will only have one entry. In order to promote Minneapolis, it spuriously claims that lacrosse is a major U.S. sport. A list of North American cities by number of major sports teams would be useful, though. Warofdreams 12:31, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Lacrosse and Ice Hockey are the official Canadian summer and winter sports respectively (note that Canada does not financially support lacrosse teams for international competitions or anything)... since Minnesota is so Canadian, maybe that's why it's listed next to hockey, Baseball, Basketball and Football? But lacrosse isn't even a major sport in Canada. I would think that soccer would be the fifth major North American sport, considering we have the phrase soccer mom, or it would be softball 132.205.45.110 18:57, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Delete. This will just lead to arguments over what is a major sport in the US. Also, the title should specify professional sports teams. Carrp 19:00, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Actually, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Denver would qualify under the criteria of this article, but it's still not a meaningful article. Delete. Rick K 21:16, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, un-encyclopaedic, trivial, POV. Megan1967 01:10, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete: useless list. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:25, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete, cannot be made NPOV, since the only purpose of the article is to make a point. Dpbsmith (talk) 14:29, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Not encyclopedic. But neither is U.S. cities with teams from four major sports, which might have been the author's point. Delete that too. Why not Three major-league professional sports teams, or Two major-league teams plus I'll throw in a couple of minor league teams? These kind of lists are just moronic. --BM 17:26, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Until lacrosse becomes a major feature on SportsCenter then I say we have only four major sports in the U.S., and as long as we do, this list should not exist. —Brim 18:25, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)
Keep, but switch lacrosse for soccer. —Ashley Y 00:46, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)
Delete -- Longhair 09:41, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete Unencyclopedic; topic is far too ambiguous. Cataclysm12 22:43, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete, redundant and ambiguous. --Idont Havaname 00:56, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete, Lacrosse is not a major sport. Iceberg3k 20:11, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)

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