Sweet Tea, Barbecue, and Bodychecks
So I’m pokin’ around Kukla’s a few minutes ago, and I see the following header:
Fans Not Showing Up In Boston
And then I clicked this here link to the Toronto Globe and Mail’s “Globe On Hockey” blog, where I read an entry by Tim Wharnsby. Now, I will be fair–I read it with an open mind, hoping against all hope that it would be free of the usual digs at all of us unworthy bumpkins who don’t deserve a team because we’re south of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Those hopes took a bit of a hit when I saw this little gem:
It’s sad to see one of the pre-expansion six teams not only struggling on the ice this season, but at the gate. Attendance is down approximately 12 per cent for the Bruins this season. They have averaged 14,385 this season, which is way down in 24th spot in the league.
That’s an area occupied by teams like the Phoenix Coyotes, Chicago Blackhawks, Washington Capitals, New Jersey Devils, St. Louis Blues and New York Islanders.
But, of course, Chicago is listed in there (and they’re an O6 team) so I decided that perhaps he wasn’t trying to be an ass.
Señor Wharnsby then goes on to say that the Bruins’ perennial post-1990 loserdom combined with the recent successes of the BoSox and Patriots are what are keeping fans away (the 1999 crack amused the piss out of me, btw–Malik Effect, anyone?)
OK, I can dig that. But if he were writing about a team like (por ejemplo) the Thrashers, would he be as charitable toward them as he’s being toward the Bruins? A snowball has a better chance of surviving in Muspelheim, in my opinion–but of course, that’s my opinion.
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