[Mick]

If we list the Bay Area as one entity, like metro Detroit, metro LA, metro Dallas, and metro NY on the list noted above (all of those cities have won at least one title while based in a suburb of the identified city), suddenly our Bay Area jumps to 19, not bad considering the first Bay Area pro franchise was established in 1946.  

Baseball 7
Football 7
Basketball 5 

Note: One of the Raiders Super Bowl championships was won while they were based in LA.

If you reordered the list dating from 1946 and combine the entire SFBA, then the Bay Area compares really well to other metropolitan regions. The SFBA currently ranks #6 all-time with 19 as you cite. SFBA leapfrogs:

- Detroit (which loses three Stanley Cups, two world series championships, and one NFL championship resulting in 16)
- Chicago (total 29, loses five NFL titles, two stanley cups, and four world series dropping their total to 18, one behind SFBA)

That places the SFBA fourth since WWII.

(per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U....mpionships

Note: One of the Raiders Super Bowl championships was won while they were based in LA.

Right, that was accounted for accurately. The Raiders had two Super Bowl wins in Oakland, one in Los Angeles.

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I just learned this morning that Stanford will be only the 2nd team from California to play at Clemson - not all that surprising.  Who was the first?  And for bonus points, who was their coach?

When was the last time Clemson played in California?

(BC is not allowed to answer)

Wild guess...pre-integration, and the allusion to BC...I'm guessing 1951.

[Mick]

If we list the Bay Area as one entity, like metro Detroit, metro LA, metro Dallas, and metro NY on the list noted above (all of those cities have won at least one title while based in a suburb of the identified city), suddenly our Bay Area jumps to 19, not bad considering the first Bay Area pro franchise was established in 1946.  

Baseball 7
Football 7
Basketball 5 

Note: One of the Raiders Super Bowl championships was won while they were based in LA.

If you reordered the list dating from 1946 and combine the entire SFBA, then the Bay Area compares really well to other metropolitan regions. The SFBA currently ranks #6 all-time with 19 as you cite. SFBA leapfrogs:

- Detroit (which loses three Stanley Cups, two world series championships, and one NFL championship resulting in 16)
- Chicago (total 29, loses five NFL titles, two stanley cups, and four world series dropping their total to 18, one behind SFBA)

That places the SFBA fourth since WWII.

(per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U....mpionships

Note: One of the Raiders Super Bowl championships was won while they were based in LA.

Right, that was accounted for accurately. The Raiders had two Super Bowl wins in Oakland, one in Los Angeles.

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I just learned this morning that Stanford will be only the 2nd team from California to play at Clemson - not all that surprising.  Who was the first?  And for bonus points, who was their coach?

When was the last time Clemson played in California?

(BC is not allowed to answer)

Wild guess...pre-integration, and the allusion to BC...I'm guessing 1951.