You do know how that happened, right? Dave Checketts actually wrote a check. There is no hierarchy of who deserves MLS teams more than somebody else. Dave Checketts wrote a check in 2003. Rochester's people did not. Salt Lake City has 1.1 million people in its metro, which, no, is not "the whole state of Utah pretty much." Rochester has 1.05 million. A city's actual population is less important than its metro area, and St. Louis has 2.8 million in its metro, and they don't have an MLS team. Anybody outraged about that?
Yeah, if you start it in 1920 and then have TV contract pooling in the 1960s so that a small-market team doesn't get killed financially by New York or Los Angeles. What? Well, it's obvious that crack is still plentiful and affordable there, so you have that going for you. League merger? Which leagues? What are you talking about? Maybe. Doesn't look good right now, though, does it? MLS seemed like a certainty 10-11 years ago. I think the dynamics of expansion have changed since then. Because Ralph Wilson started an AFL team in 1960? And no one did in Rochester?