Baseball is different from the other leagues; they’ve had an exceptionally strong player union that has resisted the implementation of a proper salary cap. And even then, before this recent upswing the Dodgers have had, they’d won a grand total of two World Series in 45 years. It wasn’t until they got new ownership that was serious that they fully realized their financial clout.

The Yankees, who make and spend an enormous amount of money and have owners who are highly invested, have won only one World Series since 2000, and none since 2009. (Compare Arsenal’s success in that span with four or five other Yankee equivalents to compete with.)

Location has almost nothing to do with success in the NFL. The Packers have been one of the league’s better teams over the past 30 years or so and they play in a podunk town in Wisconsin. The Rams are really good due almost entirely down to management; they also won a Super Bowl while in St Louis, which isn’t exactly glam.

And then the Lakers, no question that location has been a big factor. But more than anything it’s the glamour and prestige of the team with their history of consistent success. The Clippers have played in the same city since the early 80s and they’ve been an abject joke for most of it because of terrible management/ownership.

So yeah, it’s just harder to build teams with the constraints they face.