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Originally Posted by Greg_Wyshynski
Your contention is that American fans don't care about "foreign" sports.
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No, my contention is Americans only care about foreign sports when Americans are winning them. Or are featured prominantly in them all the time. How many hispanic tennis players can you name?
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Originally Posted by Greg_Wyshynski
Would this be a Canadian view of an American problem?
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No, this is an overall symptom of all sports. Look at the rise of the "nation" of sportsfans. Raider Nation. Red Sox Nation. Yankee Nation. No one ever talks about the Seahawks Nation--I'm sure the people in Seattle love their team very much, but that's why they don't have any rivalries with anyone. There could be one developing with the Rams because the Rams beat them 3 times this year including the playoffs, and ousted them from the playoffs last year too.....going by your logic, a rivalry should brew from that, because they're in the same division, they fight for the same spot, and they play each other a lot. But I don't see any rivalry. If you squint your eyes, its easy to forget there's even a Seattle team that plays football.
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Originally Posted by Greg_Wyshynski
As for being a boneheaded move -- you can argue that Phoenix was the wrong place to relocate the team, but are you saying that having teams in Winnipeg, Quebec, Ottawa, Edmonton and Calgary would have made this league financially stronger than it is today?
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I think they'd actually be playing HOCKEY, for one. Because at the moment it's not financially anything, and that's largely because of this new school of American owners who want the lucrative profits of sports business and are determined to get it if they have to hold the players upside down and shake them.
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Originally Posted by Greg_Wyshynski
I'm not sure where you're going with that strange homophobic rant. I was just saying there were a lot of transplanted New Yorkers in Florida.
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And canadians, whom the Panthers organization chose to dismiss, thinking that the only way to generate interest in hockey was to hit markets that never had any inclination of liking hockey before.