Bucks Sold

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Can Hartford support a major league franchise? I mean, it has what? 14, 15 thousand people? Or are you including Kewauskum?

Is there really a Hartford, WI?

[Spotcheck Billy]

Is there really a Hartford, WI?

it even has its own huge mineshaft 

[GGGG]

Back to the Brewers & Bucks...in 2001 the Brewers sent their Sausage Mascots down to Water & Wisconsin wearing Bucks jerseys during the lunch hour in April & May trying to piggy back on Bucks Fever.  SI or ESPN called Bucks fans the best in the league (a slap in the face to Arco, btw).  Bucks games were sold out.  Even in the flop season of 2002 tickets were very, very hard to come by. 

Milwaukee is a front running town.  Win and they're in and they're in big.  Support of the Bucks, given a better product, is a  given.  I think the NHL would face a long road here.  This is not Minnesota, hockey is a foreign sport to most.

There are elements of "front running" in any fanbase.  I think the problem that Brewers fans had from about the mid 90s until about 2010, and that Bucks fans have now, isn't just that they were bad...but there was/is no hope.  When you are *so* bad for *so* long, most fans are going to find something else better to do with their time.

The truly diehard, show up no matter what, fanbases are the exceptions to the rule. 

[The Lens]

There are elements of "front running" in any fanbase.  I think the problem that Brewers fans had from about the mid 90s until about 2010, and that Bucks fans have now, isn't just that they were bad...but there was/is no hope.  When you are *so* bad for *so* long, most fans are going to find something else better to do with their time.

The truly diehard, show up no matter what, fanbases are the exceptions to the rule. 

I would agree.  I obviously contradict myself by saying the NHL would have a hard road here.  I think given equal teams, the NBA would out draw the NHL in Milwaukee.

[Hards Alumni]

There are elements of "front running" in any fanbase.  I think the problem that Brewers fans had from about the mid 90s until about 2010, and that Bucks fans have now, isn't just that they were bad...but there was/is no hope.  When you are *so* bad for *so* long, most fans are going to find something else better to do with their time.

The truly diehard, show up no matter what, fanbases are the exceptions to the rule. 

Miami would disagree with you.

[keefe]

Is there really a Hartford, WI?

Yea. One of the guys who stood up at the wedding is from there. Nice little place, actually.