The old "our fan base is better than yours" is one of the lamest in sports.
+1000 to that.
So old and stale as an "argument."
Living in Boston, I encounter this dips***ery all the time. Bostonians are all "bandwagon"
fans, because their teams win a lot, and they have great attendance. Ironclad logic.
Old man Wirtz (Rocky's father) nearly destroyed a once thriving franchise. No home games on TV and other backward looking policies eventually relegated the team to the scrap heap. It's not just the quality of play that's improved on W Madison in the last decade - the franchise moved into the 21st century and it's paid dividends.
And agree with this
completely. Ask Raider fans about the agony of LITERALLY
waiting for the team's owner to die so your team has the chance to improve. That was
the mentality of Hawks fans with Wirtz.
I suppose, though, some posters' logic here is that ONLY TRUE FANS (while pounding their
chests, of course) would still shell out for tickets to subsidize Wirtz' cheap-ass, luddite, incompetent
ownership. The fact that the Cubs sell out all the time, despite being a complete tragicomedy
of a franchise, doesn't mean they have TRUE FANS. It means they're gullible (but loyal) idiots;
I should know since I'm one of them.
