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askye at 02:33pm on 16/02/2006
askye at 02:33pm on 16/02/2006As a new hockey fan I'm so sick of reading long time hockey fans bitch about the fact that hockey isn't popular in America and that there aren't enough fans and then bitch about hockey being in non traditional areas.
If you want the fan base to grow you have to increase the exposure.
Also, I don't think it's has hard to follow as people (esp fans) make it out to be. My 86 yr old grandmother watched a game for the first time a few weekends ago and deemed it easier to follow than football. She couldn't always tell who had the puck or exactly when the puck went into the net (mostly because of her 86 yr old eyes) but she said it was easier than the stopping and starting in football and that football rules were more complicated.
Of course I did compare hockey to keep away. Imagine it's just an elaborate game of keep away. Mom who just watches the games occasionally can follow it and understands the power play faily well.
Right now overall Im just frustrated that I don't have Center Ice, that I don't have cable, that I screwed up and taped 5 hours of CNBC yesterday and that I won't be able to go to a game this season. I don't really have the money to go see the ECHL team that's close by. I keep daydreaming that I have enough money left over every month to be able to afford to drive over and get a hotel room for the night and watch a game and then come back the next day. But I don't.
If you want the fan base to grow you have to increase the exposure.
Also, I don't think it's has hard to follow as people (esp fans) make it out to be. My 86 yr old grandmother watched a game for the first time a few weekends ago and deemed it easier to follow than football. She couldn't always tell who had the puck or exactly when the puck went into the net (mostly because of her 86 yr old eyes) but she said it was easier than the stopping and starting in football and that football rules were more complicated.
Of course I did compare hockey to keep away. Imagine it's just an elaborate game of keep away. Mom who just watches the games occasionally can follow it and understands the power play faily well.
Right now overall Im just frustrated that I don't have Center Ice, that I don't have cable, that I screwed up and taped 5 hours of CNBC yesterday and that I won't be able to go to a game this season. I don't really have the money to go see the ECHL team that's close by. I keep daydreaming that I have enough money left over every month to be able to afford to drive over and get a hotel room for the night and watch a game and then come back the next day. But I don't.
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Which happened many decades before my birth.
I figure if one is going to be a curmedgeon, one shouldn't do it by halves.