Comments on: No Excuses

By: acidqueen

acidqueen — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:40:49 +0000

That’s A2Y reader wit right there AQ.

Please, I can find more wit in a room full of Sabres trolls.

Not that that’s saying much, of course.

By: IwoCPO

IwoCPO — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:34:34 +0000

“Oh noez even!”

Nice. That’s A2Y reader wit right there AQ. Oddly, I think you and the Colonel are actuallly on the same page. I’ll mediate if you’d like.

And…

T.J. or Thomas. Thomas or T.J. Just stick with Darren.

By: ColBerdan

ColBerdan — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:21:23 +0000

There’s a tiny but important difference between “there are morons online” and “the only place you’ll find morons is online”. If you can’t see it, ask your reading comp prof, I’m sure he/she will be happy to explain.

Oh crap. I misspelled something in a comment on a blog? Oh no. Oh noez even! I am going to lose so much sleep over this…

By: acidqueen

acidqueen — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:33:25 +0000

Let’s cue up the Wayback Machine, shall we?

I love this whole “because some jackass wrote stupid comments on a blog (imagine that!) we won’t except economics as a good reason” argument.

And, of course, your comments on the Chief’s post. I dunno, sport–the implication that you think I only encounter assery online is pretty plain, there.

While you’re at it, learn the difference between “except” and “accept”. It’ll make you look a little smarter.

By: ColBerdan

ColBerdan — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:26:23 +0000

Sure, as long as it’s not the one you took. Not really seeing where I said you only encounter asshole fans online. I definitely implied you should expect them online, but I don’t think I said that was their only known location…

By: acidqueen

acidqueen — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:57:50 +0000

I love this whole “because some jackass wrote stupid comments on a blog (imagine that!) we won’t except economics as a good reason” argument.

Yes, because clearly you only find asshole fans online. They never live in your town and come up to you to be an ass to your face.

Right. Might I suggest Remedial Reading Comprehension 101?

By: Tapeleg

Tapeleg — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:02:47 +0000

If the excuse is the economy, then why did the Wings management jack ticket prices so high during the playoffs? People weren’t buying, and still, if the economy was in the toilet, was it just bad business sense? Seriously, I don’t buy the economy part either. The economy has been pathetic in Detroit for a long time, but pricing tickets out of the range of what the market can bear is not good business sense. And in a gate receipt league like the NHL (who still don’t have a worthwhile TV contract), that is the only business sense you have to possess.

But, I don’t buy Bill’s Nashville argument either. As the recent ticket drive for the Preds proved, the audience is there. Years of not going after them has been the problem.

Everyone seems to think that hockey teams run themselves. As though they are going to magnetically draw money to them. Hockey teams are just like any business, you can run them well, or you can run them poorly. It seems like the Wings may be leaning to the latter for the moment.

By: T.J.

T.J. — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:51:47 +0000

Hmh, let’s see… Wings sell tickets for the regular season just fine…November to April…attendance isn’t anywhere near capacity, but a lot of tickets are “sold.” The only competition is the sad-sack Lions (who play at 1pm, which the Wings do not) and the Pistons (who sell out their building as well).

Playoff time rolls around. Let’s see, Pistons look ripe to make a run at the NBA title, Tigers baseball is getting into full swing and the weather is still nice.

Yeah, it’s the economy and not the Pistons in the playoffs and the Tigers’ opening games that kept people away.

*rolls eyes*

And this moron has the nerve to make snide remarks about OTHERS’ intelligence? Oh, the irony.

By: ColBerdan

ColBerdan — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:04:19 +0000

I love this whole “because some jackass wrote stupid comments on a blog (imagine that!) we won’t except economics as a good reason” argument. So you have an entire season of sell outs. The playoffs roll around and ticket prices shoot up and you don’t sell as many tickets (though if the Joe was as small as the RBC Center, you would have sold out every playoff game but one). But people don’t buy less of something just because it became more expensive. That’s crazy talk! So it clearly can’t be economics.

By: IwoCPO

IwoCPO — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:35:16 +0000

Fairweather fans because a ten year run of sellouts stopped last year? We’d be bandwagoners, fairweather fans or whatever if we stopped attending/watching/caring for a team that suddenly starts losing.

That’s not the case, as we all know. Despite AQ’s claims to the contrary, it is economic where Detroit is concerned. I don’t live there but I know for a fact that there’s no way my wife would let me open up the wallet if the tickets cost 200 bucks apiece.

And, as I pointed out over at my blog earlier today, we’ve never had a problem with hockey in Raleigh. Nashville? Now that’s a different story.

By: Mer

Mer — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:48:34 +0000

Wow. Talk about fairweather fans.

By: T.J.

T.J. — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:28:53 +0000

Ignorance and elitism is something that Northerners are born and bred to display. It stands to reason that it would manifest itself in bullshit hockey snobbery as well.

The fun thing is that the economy has nothing to do with the Wings’ attendance problems. Just like in presidential elections, the soccer/hockey moms are the ones who decide things. Soccer moms in Detroit are Pistons and Tigers fans now, so the Wings aren’t selling out like they did.

A Wings fan in Detroit is like someone who quotes Napoleon Dynamite or makes a Borat voice. It’s not in style anymore.