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Originally posted by WestMichBlue
"Grow up."
My, a little touchy, aren't we.
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Just think that comments is a bit juvenille, sorta like, my dad can whip your dad.
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So what you don't like pro sports. You don't have to, but millions of people do.
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Maybe it's the absurd amounts of money paid to the players, whining, money charged the fans, whining, fans who pay the ridiculous prices and complain while doing so, whining, the atrocious amount of money paid by municipalities for arenas by the tax payer while the owners, players and leagues get richer and still whine.
Oh, yeah, BTW, did I mention the whining?
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Fan in Michigan love pro sports (and show it with their pocket books). The "Joe" holds 20K and the only way to get season tickets to the Red Wings is for someone to die. The Pistons lead the NBA in attendance (22K+). Even when they are lousy the Lions sell out Ford Field and the Tigers sell a million tickets. And a 100K+ show up at MIS for NASCAR races.
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Well, 200K+ show up in Dover for NASCAR weekends, but there's more to that weekend then just racin'. Fans in Philly and Boston love pro sports, too. Does that make them a better community? No. Especially if you've seen how the fans act before, during and after an event. You would think you were at Marshall Univ. they way the fans do not behave.
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And is that is not enough, how 'bout those that love college sports. On a given Saturday over 200K could be watching football at just 3 schools - UoM, MSU, and WMU. 75K paid to see MSU play Kentucky in Basketball last season, and 75K saw UoM play MSU in hockey a couple years ago.
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Yes, Delaware has collegiate football. You may have heard that UD won the only NCAA Div I National Football Championship this year. And before you go on about UD copying UM's uniform, you should know that UM stole their uniform design from Princeton.
Delaware may be small, but the diversity in entertainment, education, participation and spectator sports, pro, collegiate or youth and adult amateur, is so great within 2 hours, there is much more to do than in most parts of the country. Did I happen to mention that we sit right in the middle of the New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC corridor?
Delaware doesn't need big time sports, or anything else for that matter, to enjoy those experiences larger areas do, so when it come down to it, why would I care about professional sports in Delaware? They are not necessary to the community.
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And now that the score for the opening game is posted, I can say more emphatically - GO PISTONS!
WMB
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Talk and early leads are cheap. Don't believe me, ask the teams from the Philly area. Or you can even ask a certain horse from Philly.
However, even if the Pistons win, so what? A bunch of grown men running around in their underwear showing off for anyone who will watch.
AFAI'MC, I'd rather see the Globetrotters. At least they make no bones about being entertainers.
Mike