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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And it all pales in comparison to the numbers of any Bucs preseason game. <a href="FOX Sports Bolts on Twitter">FOX Sports Bolts on Twitter</a></p>— JoeBucsFan (@JoeBucsFan) <a href="">
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Good for you, I thought it was a stupid uneccessary comment.I let him have it. The rest of Tampa can kiss his ass and say "I still love my team!" I won't. Seriously, **** this this guy. The Bucs have ruined enough this year and now he's trying to **** on the Lightning's viewership success on their behalf.
Good for you, I thought it was a stupid uneccessary comment.
Is that guy some kind of local celebrity or something? Why do people care?
People may put their games on TV but nobody I've seen actually gives a crap about the Bucs any more. The Lightning are way more popular as a practical concern.
I always hear sports industry people talk about how they want their team to reach a point where they don't need to win to fill the building. Unsurprisingly, their teams aren't winning. You don't need to win all the time (technically), but you do seem to need some sort of glory years. A winning 'tradition' to get the generational fan off to a start. If the Lightning can win for long enough, we can withstand the fair weather fan.The fanship for the Bolts is relatively new though. As someone who has been going to games since the first playoff game in the Thunderdome I can tell you there's a lack of long term fanship for the Lightning. I'd say more than half the people going to games now-a-days have no idea about the old school (which isn't that old). I have a good buddy who couldn't name half of the Cup roster and guys beyond that like Hamrlik, Gratton, and Puppa? Forget it.
I've lived in the Tampa Bay area more than NY now at this point, but it's painful how much of a bandwagon town this is. When the Bucs were going to the Super Bowl there were billboards on Dale Mabry advertising the season ticket waiting list seasons after. The Bucs get bad, everyone forgets about them.
I get that people like a winning team. That's what a fan wants to see. Winning teams are what get fans into a team in the first place, but it's a shame that people are ready to jump ship after a few bad years. There are frustrations with teams and ownership and I get that. I just hate the idea of giving up on a losing team. If I hated the Lightning when they got bad I wouldn't have had the opportunity to go to game 7 of the Cup Finals and see the greatest sporting event of my life.
I appreciate all the new Lightning fans, but it kind of sucks to sit around people for all these years that only like the idea of a winning team and very few have been here for the long haul. The seasons after the winning stops a precipitous drop off in attendance will be seen and it sucks.
I always hear sports industry people talk about how they want their team to reach a point where they don't need to win to fill the building. Unsurprisingly, their teams aren't winning. You don't need to win all the time (technically), but you do seem to need some sort of glory years. A winning 'tradition' to get the generational fan off to a start. If the Lightning can win for long enough, we can withstand the fair weather fan.
The 'mystique' is always the missing element from industry people, especially in the minor leagues. Like they'll develop a Chicago Cubs fanbase by never coming close to winning anything in a AA league. The Cubs did win a long, long, time ago.
The fanship for the Bolts is relatively new though. As someone who has been going to games since the first playoff game in the Thunderdome I can tell you there's a lack of long term fanship for the Lightning. I'd say more than half the people going to games now-a-days have no idea about the old school (which isn't that old). I have a good buddy who couldn't name half of the Cup roster and guys beyond that like Hamrlik, Gratton, and Puppa? Forget it.
I've lived in the Tampa Bay area more than NY now at this point, but it's painful how much of a bandwagon town this is. When the Bucs were going to the Super Bowl there were billboards on Dale Mabry advertising the season ticket waiting list seasons after. The Bucs get bad, everyone forgets about them.
I get that people like a winning team. That's what a fan wants to see. Winning teams are what get fans into a team in the first place, but it's a shame that people are ready to jump ship after a few bad years. There are frustrations with teams and ownership and I get that. I just hate the idea of giving up on a losing team. If I hated the Lightning when they got bad I wouldn't have had the opportunity to go to game 7 of the Cup Finals and see the greatest sporting event of my life.
I appreciate all the new Lightning fans, but it kind of sucks to sit around people for all these years that only like the idea of a winning team and very few have been here for the long haul. The seasons after the winning stops a precipitous drop off in attendance will be seen and it sucks.
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