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Post by CF4L on Oct 31, 2010 10:47:09 GMT -5
I just don't understand why you take a crap on the sport that has the biggest draw. that is easy- the USHL and the D-League are a hell of a lot more stable than the IFL. plus they fill more dates.
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Post by Banana Cat on Oct 31, 2010 15:26:46 GMT -5
For the arena it's who brings in the most money. Most football teams are behind the eight ball in the fact that they play way less games than most sports, so hockey and other events usually get more favoritism since they fill more dates. Yes, the football games probably bring in more people per game, but you have way less games.
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Post by ThrowItTo7 on Oct 31, 2010 15:50:00 GMT -5
Thats probably true, but it does not change the fact that unlike those other sports football doesn't suck....
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Post by Banana Cat on Oct 31, 2010 16:58:32 GMT -5
I just don't understand why you take a crap on the sport that has the biggest draw. that is easy- the USHL and the D-League are a hell of a lot more stable than the IFL. plus they fill more dates. Ah, you beat me to it, didn't see your post before I replied. Stable schmable, it's the dates...money talks.
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Post by Banana Cat on Oct 31, 2010 17:07:02 GMT -5
Thats probably true, but it does not change the fact that unlike those other sports football doesn't suck.... Definitely. Football's the only sport I watch and would ever pay to see. Ok, ok, I'd pay to see women's billiards if the Black Widow was playing, I'd pay to see the Lingerie Football League, and I'd probably pay to see women's mud wrestling (but is that a sport?...is billiards a sport???...and isn't the LFL football? ?...so I'm safe on my statement). That's why I don't watch ESPN anymore, because they pepper everything (even their football programming) with other sports trying to get you watch more of their programming, but all it does is irritate me. The NFL Network arrival on the scene was great since you don't have to put up with other useless sports. It's not that I don't care about other sports...playing any sport is fun, but spectator-wise I'll only watch football. Baseball is mind-numbingly boring (ugh), hockey is ridiculous, tennis is boring, soccer is boring, etc, etc (playing all of them are great though...any exercise is great).
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Post by biggrizfan on Oct 31, 2010 18:12:50 GMT -5
I will watch Hockey Live but not on tv, anything else just Sucks, that is why Indoor Football is great, fills the time between the end of the NFl season and the time Pee-wee and High School games start.
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Post by Micah008 on Oct 31, 2010 19:20:04 GMT -5
Related to the other sports filling more dates than football (which I agree is the reason) ...
I complained to our local paper about their lack of coverage of the Spartans and IFL, and they said it wasn't popular enough to cover as much as other sports. Their reason why they said it was less popular was that the local baseball and hockey teams have a higher TOTAL attendance over a season.
Of course it has more total attendance over 30+ home games instead of 7! But that doesn't automatically make it more popular as far as the number of people that care and want to follow the team.
(The paper still hasn't even made a mention of the schedule being released, or the last few players signings, but they had no less than 7 different stories about the hockey team in the last 2 papers alone.)
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Post by Banana Cat on Oct 31, 2010 19:46:06 GMT -5
The Spartans themselves need to constantly pepper that paper with updates, it's the only way to get articles in...and even then that's not guaranteed. Still, the team needs to be more aggressive.
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Post by Micah008 on Oct 31, 2010 20:05:15 GMT -5
I am on the same mailing list the newspaper is on, I know they are getting emails with each news update that is posted to the Spartans site and the IFL new updates.
Granted though, they can for sure do more to build a good relationship with the local paper, somehow they started on a bad foot last year, including some articles with a negative feel. (The previous 2 indoor football franchises in La Crosse didn't help matters)
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Post by trackstar on Nov 1, 2010 15:33:24 GMT -5
micah...I checked La Crosse's website and according to the newspaper their last 2 hockey games had 1,072 and 700 fans. Is that more than what the Spartans get?
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Post by Micah008 on Nov 1, 2010 15:47:06 GMT -5
The Spartans have averaged somewhere around 2500, including one game of almost 3300. (As quoted by the same paper)
I was at the hockey game over the weekend that had 700 fans, and I can confirm it was way less than even the least attended Spartans game.
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