Boston Is Still A Celtics Town (Lee: sales, how much, layoffs)

[Hudlander]

Just though I would clear the air, many sullys as I call them were delighted the Celtics lost in round 2 because their bruins got the center stage (forgetting Boston will take the Sox 6 of 7 days, with the 7th day being the Pats and the 8th being the Celtics).

Just thought I would remind there are so many annoying bandwagoners to go with utterly classless sullys who have such an inferiority complex about the Celtics...I haven't forgotten this:

1) Game 3 of the 2008 1st round v Montreal, 60% of the fans were Habs fans because Boston did not care....
2) Game 3 and 4 of the 2003 1st round v NJ...4000 empty seats for a playoff game, because Boston did not care....
3) 2005/2006/2007....14,000 nightly, if that, with 50% being Rangers/Habs/Leafs fans....because Boston did not care.....

I will never forget this next time some pinhead like Morris Wanchuk tells me Boston is a great, loyal hockeytown.
Great loyal hockeytowns are NY where a Ranger team missing the playoffs 7 straight years still gets 18K or more a night.

Remember that.

[Hudlander]

Bump for Morris Wanchuk

[LeavingMA]

I also remember the years right before Garnett & Allen came to Boston and the Celtics were practically giving tickets away. You could sit like 20 rows from the court for about $20 a ticket. The Harp across the street was dead during game days and nobody cared. The celtics aren't immune either to having bandwagon fans when they are doing well.

[holden125]

Originally Posted by Hudlander

Just though I would clear the air, many sullys as I call them were delighted the Celtics lost in round 2 because their bruins got the center stage (forgetting Boston will take the Sox 6 of 7 days, with the 7th day being the Pats and the 8th being the Celtics).

Just thought I would remind there are so many annoying bandwagoners to go with utterly classless sullys who have such an inferiority complex about the Celtics...I haven't forgotten this:

1) Game 3 of the 2008 1st round v Montreal, 60% of the fans were Habs fans because Boston did not care....
2) Game 3 and 4 of the 2003 1st round v NJ...4000 empty seats for a playoff game, because Boston did not care....
3) 2005/2006/2007....14,000 nightly, if that, with 50% being Rangers/Habs/Leafs fans....because Boston did not care.....

I will never forget this next time some pinhead like Morris Wanchuk tells me Boston is a great, loyal hockeytown.
Great loyal hockeytowns are NY where a Ranger team missing the playoffs 7 straight years still gets 18K or more a night.

Remember that.

OK, dude. We had this conversation last year. Go troll somewhere else.

But remember that a great hockey town and a great Bruins town are not the same thing. The Boston area's a college and youth hockey mecca. Ever heard of Hockey East? The 1980 Olympic team? I lived in and around NYC for YEARS and there's no comparison. People here build rinks in the yard and live and breathe hockey. People there...go to a Ranger game.

Plenty of NHL players from the Boston area. Where do you think Tony Amonte's from? Chris Nilan? Brian Boyle? Chris Drury played at BU, Brian Leetch at BC. Brian Leetch!

And NYC metro has 15 million people, Boston has under 3.

[lukec]

People purposely revolted over Jacobs. There were die-hards fans who refused to support the $$$$$ ownership, which in a way makes them better fans. Any ignorant, tool fan can show up regardless of how much they are getting ripped off. The silent protest of true Boston hockey fans was real.

And, yes, sucking does matter. True fans wont permanently bolt, but long term fans will question. I wonder what Islander and Ranger ticket sales were all year? Sold out every game at ownership's optimal prices, right? For every game. Just like the Detoit Lions over the last ten years, and the Sixers over the last ten years. Never a single seat open....

[Hudlander]

Boston is an overrated, bandwagon, fickle hockeytown.
Hockey is a distant fourth and the Bruins fans ARE very disloyal and fairweather.

Proof?
1) After Orr was let go in the 70s, the Bruins fell off in popularity greatly...playoff games were not sold out...until Don Cherry...then once he left..
2) Again they could not draw until Bourque and Neely, once they left, once more NOBODY cared...
3) 2003 Opening night, a season which Boston finished 1 in the conference...they had 13K
4) 2003 playoffs, did not sell out the playoff games and had 4K empty seats at game 4
5) 2007, had fewer season TH than Atlanta!!!

Bottom line, Bruins fans are VERY fairweather and like to act like they are this great hockeytown when in actuality, they are EXTREMELY fickle and fairweather and do not have the right to call themselves a top market.

Comparison?

NY...Rangers miss playoffs 98-2004, but average 18k per game, in other words, while the Bruins won 2 division titles from 98-2004 (and the Rangers won only 4 in their history), the Bruins had more empty seats at playoff games and opening night than the Rangers EVER did.
You guys are a shell of a hockeytown compared to NY.
Yes, NY has more people, but they also have THREE NHL teams and 9 pro teams and many other entertainment options.
PLUS, well NY is a melting pot, while Boston is very...eh...white..much more slanted demo wise to liking hockey...and yet basically a medicore Ranger team is 10X more supported than a good Bruins team...as 98-2004 proved.

You have a long history, mainly of white washing your fickle nature and embellishing so called great fan.
It is too bad the rest of the NHL and media continues to not call you out for your poor support:
-Post Orr
-Post Cherry
-93-2008

TRUE hockeytowns support their team irregardless, like NY did.

[holden125]

Originally Posted by Hudlander

TRUE hockeytowns support their team irregardless, like NY did.

Is this your annual go-off-on-the-Boston-forum-about-the-New-York-Rangers (a team about which none of us care) week? Or does it just stink that your crappy team still has only four division titles in its history or whatever?

"Irregardless" is not even a word.

Bye.

[Boston_Burbs]

33.3 local rating last night

[Hudlander]

1) Celtics rated higher last year
2) Celtics had more Red Sox games to compete with to
3) Celtics started at 9 PM, Bruins 8 PM, hurt ratings

Boston is a fairweather hockeytown, did you go the playoffs in 2003 or where you too busy to be at games in 2006, that is the Boston I always will recall.

[Cliff Clavin]

Originally Posted by Hudlander

1) Celtics rated higher last year
2) Celtics had more Red Sox games to compete with to
3) Celtics started at 9 PM, Bruins 8 PM, hurt ratings

Boston is a fairweather hockeytown, did you go the playoffs in 2003 or where you too busy to be at games in 2006, that is the Boston I always will recall.

How can you compare Celtics vs Lakers to Bruins vs Canucks?? That's ridiculous. And yes, personally I'd rather be getting ready for a C's vs Mavs game 7 tonight, but I'm going to enjoy this none the less. We all are. This will be Boston's 7th championship in 10 years. How many other cities can say that?