RE: Tidbits from Cincinnati

["Odegaard, Greg M." <GMOdegaa@RMC.com>]

These fans didn't sell out games when Neon Deon was playing the pigskin
version, and will (as they have before) drop the Braves when they start
playing down a notch or two, and could not sell out playoff games in the old
Omni against the then soon to be Conference Champions to be, Shaq led Magic.
It was pointed out in every major sports media pub/ESPN how despicable that
was at the time.  Justify the numbers however you want, if there isn't a
race car involved or the actual note a playoff game on the baseball field
then the fandom of Atlanta is seriously below average, and has been for
ever.  Must be the fun on the streets that keeps people away from the
arenas.

Celtics fans would have watched a playoff game outside in the rain, standing
on gravel.

BTW what kind of team puts a deciding playoff game in a small college arena
like that anyhow?  The circus must have been in town and had dibs.

Yada Yada,
Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Goggin <gogginpd@email.uc.edu>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 10:03 AM
Subject: Tidbits from Cincinnati

> -I find the entire franchiseinf Atlanta nauseating--from the fans, to the
> players, to the coach.

Like anyone asked you.

> Their playoff attendance was a joke,

Detroit @ Atlanta 5/8: 20,884
Detroit @ Atlanta 5/10: 16,377
Detroit @ Atlanta 5/16: 8,460 (i.e. sold out Georgia Tech)
New York @ Atlanta 5/18: 18,513
New York @ Atlanta 5/20: 22,558

Discarding the game at the tiny Alexander Memorial that averages out as
19,553 per game which I'd hardly term a joke.  You may postulate that
Celtics fans would have filled the Georgia Dome all four nights but if
you've ever seen a game there you'd realize how bad the seats start getting
beyond that 20,000th seat.  It's a football stadium after all.  It would be
better to judge Atlanta fans (of which I am one) next year when the new
arena is ready and the ramshackle arena situation of the last two years is
over.  With four first round picks and hopefully healthy players the team
should be able to improve significantly next year.