Road (sports)

[2][3] Historically, the longest road trip in sports (in terms of time taken, which may never be eclipsed due to modern means of travel by air) was made by the Dawson City Nuggets who embarked upon the 4,000 mile (6,400 km) journey to Ottawa over several weeks, travelling by dog sled, bicycle, foot, train, and ship.

The exhausted Nuggets players were handily defeated by the Ottawa Hockey Club in the best-of-three series of the Stanley Cup challenge.

The related term true road game has seen increasing use in U.S. college sports in the 21st century, especially in basketball.

These are typically held at neutral sites, with some of them taking place outside the contiguous U.S. (as in the case of the Great Alaska Shootout and Maui Invitational) or even outside the country entirely (such as the Battle 4 Atlantis in The Bahamas).

In turn, this has led to the use of "true road game" to refer to contests played at one team's home venue.

This is different from other sports, particularly in North America, where for the most part relatively few fans travel to games played away from their home stadium, with a handful of exceptions for teams with large fan bases such as the Pittsburgh Steelers in American football or the Toronto Maple Leafs in ice hockey.