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re: do you buy the "local pro team" hurts your college team arg?
Posted on 3/28/15 at 3:35 pm to Jagd Tiger
Posted on 3/28/15 at 3:35 pm to Jagd Tiger
In some cases, sure, but that can go the other way as well. UCLA to some degree but mostly USC are a major factor in NFL teams not doing well in LA.
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Posted on 3/28/15 at 6:10 pm to Jagd Tiger
When the Oilers came to Memphis, they said that it would hurt Ole Miss football. Ole Miss football prospered and the Oilers were laughed out of town.
Posted on 3/28/15 at 6:34 pm to Jagd Tiger
If you look at Louisiana no, but then again maybe that's because the Saints were shite for so many years
Posted on 3/28/15 at 6:45 pm to Jagd Tiger
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but since when to granola munching hemp wearing frisbee flower childs care about an archaic sport that represents masculinity? The left coast commies and football just don't really add up to a good mixture, regardless of what a billionaire stadium developer does.
What in the frick are you talking about?
Frisbee flower childs?
Also granola is so 90's, we're all about organics and grass fed beef these days. Get with the fricking times.
Stick to bitching about Pinkel. That suits you better.
Posted on 3/28/15 at 7:41 pm to Jagd Tiger
quote:Nope, as both a Saints and an LSU fan, I find them extremely complimentary. A Saints game Sunday at noon is the perfect followup to Saturday night at Death Valley. When I was younger and partied more, it was an ideal "hair of the dog"; now with a family, it's a greater follow-through, a longer BBQ.
do you buy the "local pro team" hurts your college team arg?
Posted on 3/28/15 at 8:40 pm to Jagd Tiger
I definitely think that having one or more pro team(s) hurts the local colleges. Of course it does. There are people who are going to "have" a football team and there are those who couldn't care less. Among those who "need" a football team every available team is competition to the next. I'm surprised at how many in this thread claim to think otherwise.
The "I've been to Arkansas and Alabama" argument may be anecdotal, but I've been to either state several times and I've seen a heard a veritable shite load of that anecdote.
There are ticket sales and TV ratings and either are affected. These are small potatoes. It's the t-shirts and toothbrushes and pajama pants and shower curtains that prove the argument. The Razorbacks benefit tremendously from Little Rock's having no NFL franchise. Missouri benefits from being the only appreciable college football in Missouri, and it suffers measurably for there being pro football in St. Louis and Kansas City. (I say "measurably" as if I know the measure; I do not. But I'm sure some economist somewhere thinks he does).
If it were up to me there wouldn't be professional football. Not that I'd support a law to abolish it; rather I wish that most Americans felt as ambivalent toward it as I do. But this is beside the point and has nothing to do with the common sense demanding my position.
The "I've been to Arkansas and Alabama" argument may be anecdotal, but I've been to either state several times and I've seen a heard a veritable shite load of that anecdote.
There are ticket sales and TV ratings and either are affected. These are small potatoes. It's the t-shirts and toothbrushes and pajama pants and shower curtains that prove the argument. The Razorbacks benefit tremendously from Little Rock's having no NFL franchise. Missouri benefits from being the only appreciable college football in Missouri, and it suffers measurably for there being pro football in St. Louis and Kansas City. (I say "measurably" as if I know the measure; I do not. But I'm sure some economist somewhere thinks he does).
If it were up to me there wouldn't be professional football. Not that I'd support a law to abolish it; rather I wish that most Americans felt as ambivalent toward it as I do. But this is beside the point and has nothing to do with the common sense demanding my position.
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