New York and its' sports teams

Day -685. Worldcup2018

In New York. If I was one of those people who watched a local football match everywhere they went I would think: City or Red Bull? New York is the American city of two teams in every major sport, even though some of them actually play in New Jersey, but New York...... sounds better, I guess.

The Mets and the Yankees.
The Rangers and the Islanders.
The Knicks and the Nets
The Giants and the Jets

The Red Bull football team had been around for a while until Manchester City decided they needed to join in the Major League Soccer fun, and New York (and the MLS) realized, like the other 4 major leagues, they needed to manufacture a New York rivalry. So along came New York City, via Manchester, along with some great names (albeit slightly past their prime): Villa, Lampard and Pirlo. The derbies have featured lots of serious banter between the fans and it makes me wonder how a team that has only existed for a couple of years can have supporters who already feel enough animosity towards a team that they were watching not long ago, as the only football team in New York.

Football, like other sports in the U.S. Is different in many ways. But even though I was skeptical of an American World Cup in 1994, I would be very happy with another one here in 2018, if the Russians should happen to have it taken away. I'm in New York. I can dream, right?