Yeah realized I was wasting my time if someone still doesn't know the history. Not like it hasn't been posted here a zillion times. My story was a bad country music song. I also had to sell the truck in the pic, my dog died and I flushed a $5k ring down the toilet when I realized she wasn't going to say yes. Armstrong isn't the only one that knows how to burn it to the ground for a rebuild.
I know the history full well. I just don't think that's what doomed the Coyotes in Glendale. It was the wrong location in a business sense and demographically.. unless you actually believed Glendale would become Scottsdale 2.0 that Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs believed it would.
Wrong owner/s in Ellman/Moyes/Gretzky
Wrong location, not enough hockey fans or culture out west, no business/corporate presence outside of warehouses. It's blue collar
The economy had no effect in the above.. Even without an economic crash Glendale wouldn't have been successful, it's a city run by yokels and always will be.
Sorry you personally had issues during the 08 crash but what does that have to do with the long term viability of the team in Glendale? You were one of the extremely few Coyotes fans who actually lived in Glendale.
That resort they're building is going to collapse as well, just a matter of time. Why would anyone pay upscale resort prices in Glendale when most of what people want to do is in Scottsdale? The City of Glendale is repeating the same things again before yet another recession looming..
But anyways, I drove by the TED site today. Carvana's HQ is going up pretty fast and the TED site to me seems bigger than I remember.
For the record, I have been a Coyotes fan since 2000 (See username) and have lived in the following cities in the valley:
Surprise (I moved to Surprise from out of state to be near the Coyotes in Glendale FYI)
North Scottsdale
North Phoenix
Mesa
Gilbert
Replies are welcome, I won't delete this post but it's my final one on the subject.
How about them SIGNATURES?!