Spectator sports

==Links==
* Steelers
* Pirates
* Penguins
* University of Pittsburgh and Pitt Panthers
* Dukes
* Xplosion, ABA Basketball, new in 2005-06 season.
* Pittsburgh Passion, womens football played at Cupples Field on the South Side
* Pittsburgh Colts, minor league football since 1979
==Priorities==
==== Citizen Rant ====
I bet Mayor Murphy figured that bankruptcy was preferable to losing the Pirates or Steelers. If Murphy was known as 'the Mayor who lost the Pirates or Steelers' then this would be such a shakeup in the psychology of Pittsburgh that the GOP would have an opening to take over control of the city. Losing the Steelers would have meant Murphy losing to a GOP challenger. Pittsburghers are used to having world class museums, zoos, universities, hospitals, etc. But the city is too small to support these things. The RAD tax spreads it around a bit, but the SW PA region is shrinking in population and the entire region can't support these things. We very well might lose the Pirates or even the Steelers over the next decade. The city will suffer a loss of self esteem and the voters may reevaluate their support of the Democrats for the last 60 years.