That's a fair question, Peter.
I don't mean to be dismissive, because the Seattle Storm certainly did capture championships. Good teams, with good players. Those seasons made a lot of people happy.
I just never invested emotionally in the WNBA game. I don't enjoy watching the actual gameplay in the same way I do with some other sports. My reaction is not purely sexist either; I really can't stand to watch the NBA, either.
More importantly, the WNBA - while popular in Seattle - has simply never captured the social consciousness in the same way that the NFL and MLB do.
So, sure they count. They're just not as meaningful to me, or to many other professional sports fans.
Here is a nicely written story about how the
absence of sports success has impacted generations of people from this area.
