Re: Celtic Cheerleaders....

[Ryan.Lee@parexel.com (Ryan Lee)]

     I temporarily took myself out of this group because it became one huge 
     anal retentive flaming ring.  By anal retentive I mean one person will 
     make an innocent comment and all of a sudden 15 people will verbally 
     attack him/her claiming they are the gods of Celtic knowledge.  Case 
     in point a Mr. Jeff Chin made a comment saying that he would like to 
     see some cheerleaders at the Fleetcenter.  Then all of a sudden the 
     Celtic "fan" committee fired back at him as if Jeff were some bumbling 
     idiot.  There was no diplomacy whatsoever in anyone's views.  Noone 
     tried to see the other person's point. That's the purpose of a 
     discussion group, to open your horizons and learn a thing or two.  All 
     I saw was, "I am right and you are not".  I didn't see one instance of 
     "you know, you may have a point".  We're not here to gang up on one 
     person's view, we're here to exchange ideas and thoughts.  Now if 
     someone came in this group and said that Bird is a total talentless 
     idiot then that would be grounds for some flaming but please, 
     cheerleaders in the Fleetcenter?
     Get a life and stop being so anal.  
     
     Now as far as my view, cheerleaders would be a nice addition to the 
     Fleetcenter.  Oh but wait what about the tradition you ask?  Listen 
     boys, we're not in the Garden anymore.  We're in the Fleetcenter, a 
     state of the art facility made for the 90's.  The Celtics have adapted 
     to their surroundings with a faster, flashier, style of basketball.  
     Why can't there be cheerleaders in the Fleet?  Again you ask, the 
     Celts didn't need them before, why now?  The Celtics don't need 
     cheerleaders but the fans do.  The fans are different now then they 
     were in the 80's.  The 80's Celtics fans were like the Chicago fans of 
     today.  They were proud, vicious, and fierce at every game and they 
     usually almost went to every game because everyone wanted to see Bird 
     play no matter who the opponent was.  Nowadays you can spot a few 
     yuppie fans bringing laptops with them to the game having a business 
     meeting during the game.  Don't tell me you don't see them, go to a 
     less populated game like a Raptors or Grizzlies one and you can see 
     them with their cell phones and briefcases.  You would never find 
     those types of people in the stands at the Garden because it was too 
     packed and too loud to do that kind of stuff.  Even with the revamped 
     Celts I'd say almost half the games are not sold out because they 
     aren't against ranked opponents like Chicago or LA.  You would never 
     find that in the 80's.  Even against the Bucks or the Nuggets you 
     would find the Garden close to full.  A Raptors game?  Please, the 
     stand might be 60% full for a game like that.  The times have changed 
     and if bringing in cheerleaders attracts a few more fans to the games, 
     then so be it.  Don't look back, look forward.  
     
     That's my two cents.  
     
     R
     
     PS Don't litter my account with flames, I don't take it too kindly and 
     I can hang with the best of them on internet flaming.  Ask Greg O. in 
     the group, he'll tell ya.