In other countries, especially in sports like football (soccer), teams from major urban centers tend to dominate leagues and championships, often because of higher financial resources. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case in the United States, where titles in major sports like basketball and American football are more evenly spread among cities or regions. For example, about football in other countries, it seems almost impossible for a team located in a city similar to where the Green Bay Packers are located to be relevant. Just look at the history of the Premier League, Bundesliga, or La Liga.Perhaps the question is more about why titles are more evenly distributed among regions in these sports in United States, comparing with other countries.
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American sports leagues are set up very differently from European ones:
1. Players can only enter the league via a draft, and the worst teams get to select first every year and get the best new players.
2. There are strict salary caps. Some leagues don’t allow teams to go over at all, while others impose strict penalties. So beyond a certain point having more money doesn’t help.
These, plus many more minor rules, ensure that there is parity in the league, and no team stays bad for too long.
It is worth noting though that despite all of this teams from bigger cities do tend to win more in general than smaller ones even in America. It just isn’t as blatant as in European leagues where the same 2-3 teams will just dominate forever.
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