Texas and California - Large States and Large Sports Success

As the popular, though admittedly not even close to always correct, saying goes "bigger is better". Although clearly not true in all cases, this popular phrase does in fact often hold true for sports, especially for the states of Texas and California. As sports have evolved into more of a business than just a way to stay in shape and something done for the love of the game, leagues have constantly been, sometimes correctly, accused of trying to make teams in bigger media markets better and more successful. For example, a team in Los Angeles or a team in Dallas would get more attention in the media than a team from a smaller city, and that is just the way things go. Being in a large media market also helps the Texas Contract Warehouse industry and the California Contract Warehouse industries, as more people are in need of warehouses in a larger metropolitan area. Partly because they have the aforementioned advantage, Texas and California professional sports teams have nearly always done well in the recent and distant past.

The second most successful NBA team in the history of the sport is the Los Angeles Lakers, who trail only the Boston Celtics in terms of most titles won by a specific team. Although in the past they were the Minneapolis Lakers, which of course makes more sense because there are for more lakes in Minnesota than California, most of the team's large success has been in the city of angels. Recently, the team has won two consecutive NBA titles under the leadership of future hall of fame coach Phil Jackson and future hall of fame player Kobe Bryant. Previously, the team was most successful when it had point guard Magic Johnson, another hall of famer, and a number of different famous players.

Another largely winning professional sports team in California is football's San Francisco 49ers. The team has recently been quite poor but previously had excellent spells under quarterbacks Joe Montana, widely considered one of the greatest of all time, and Steve Young. Four championships were won with Montana under center in the mid to late 1980's and a further three were obtained under the leadership of Steve young in the early 1990's.

Almost all of the success of Texas in terms of national professional sports rests on the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. The team was in fact so popular in the 1980's and 1990's that they were given the moniker America's Team. The team has been winning for so long that they are in fact first in terms of Super Bowl appearances with eight and tied for second in terms of victories with five.

In the world of sports, typically the phrase bigger is better is in fact true. The bigger the area a team is in the more media exposure they get and the more "help" it is argued they receive from the league they are in to become successful, as is exemplified by the large success in professional sports by teams from the large states of Texas and California.

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