I guess you’re not from here because I have never met anyone who gave even the slightest shit about comparing seattle to Portland. That some weird thing that people from seattle created in their heads.
And yet, people get crazy defensive about it and can't help trying to place every Portland/OR team above every Seattle/WA one. Portland lives in Seattle's shadow on the national scale and people are insecure about, or jealous of, it, especially those who can't admit it.