Call this regionalism by other means... tentative steps have been made to allow the NFL's Buffalo Bills to play at least one of their regular home games in... Toronto? See:
http://washington.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2007/10/15/daily44.html
It's also been suggested that the two cities may swap sports teams. I probably should know, but is there a common moniker for the name of the region that would encompass both cities and environs. Is Buffalo really thinking of itself as a suburb of Toronto, or vice versa. Trans national regions are nothing new. The obvious example of the Oreusund region not only crosses national boundaries, but the North Sea as well encompassing the Copenhagen metro region and Southern Sweeden. It took the building of the multi-billion Oresund Bridge to make that work. Which makes me wonder, in this post-9/11 world, is it easier to commute from Malmo (Sweeden) into Copenhagen (Denmark) than it is to get between Toronto and Buffalo.
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