AHC: Make inter-State sports the basis of at least one top three US sport

I really don't know a huge amount about US sports but one thing I've noticed is the fairly arbitrary nature of the teams.

Would a more "natural" unit of support be possible?
 
You going for a Mississippi team, a Louisiana team, etc?

Have to be basketball since you only need five players on the court.
 

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Have amateurism become a force as it did in the UK. Don't know enough about the history of US sports to say which one.
Perhaps if college football remained dominant and football remained amateur then in the NFL's place you might see State of Origin style games between certian states? The big states and traditional football states would be dominant and smaller states would play in the equaivalent of 2nd, 3rd and 4th divisions. Look at provincial rugby in New Zealand or South Africa where 4 or 5 teams from the bigger population centers dominate while the country teams are never able to compete with them
Basketball for a long time only accepted amateur athletes, so perhaps you could have inter state matches that act as trials for the US olympic team.
 
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