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Originally Posted by peterlemonjello
Miami is, by far, the worst sports town of the three. Outside the Heat, the attendence among the other teams is putrid.
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I am not so sure about that. The Texans are new and have had little success, there is no Hockey team, there is no power house conference college team, and the Astros have been worse than the Marlins. In percentage of the stadium the Astors have worse attendance than the Marlins. The Rockets had good years in the 1990s and now are back at it again but their crowds are nothing stellar same with the Astros. Rockets attendance is good this year but still not at the level of the Heat. Even if you go back to 2001-2004 years the Heat had a few bad years and Rockets were not great either Heat still had better attendance since 2001 I only found one year the Rockets had better attendance than the Heat. So actually
If you want to talk about team success and the variety of sports Miami beats Houston by a very large margin. So, I don't know. It is pretty close if you ask me, and it is clear Miami has a more variety of teams to watch.
Here is the Miami Sports fan thing again. The Heat have plenty of good fans. Miami is so different than other cities because it is such a transplant city and so many people here were born in other countries or states and they are still loyal to their teams from NY or Boston and Chicago. The teams down here are young besides for the Dolphins and it takes time to build tradition which the Heat are certainly doing now.
But at the same time in cities like Chicago and Boston people show up pretty well even when the team sucks. Honestly that is pretty dumb if you ask me unless you are a die hard fan of that sport, (not just the team). Why spend your money on a poor product and waste your energy worrying about a poor product. That is like going to the movies paying $12 to see a movie you already know 100% is bad. But I love basketball in general. I would rather watch the Bobcats play the Kings than watch a great MLB game. So I do always got o the Heat games. But when the Dolphins and Marlins suck I almost never go. That is the type of city Miami is. Each sport has their own group of dedicated fans and the rest save their time, money and energy for when the teams are good.
Miami is a fair weather sports town. If the team is not winning people don't want to spend their money which IMO makes perfect sense. Besides for the Heat. (I am a HUGE Heat fan, been going to games since I was 7 years old in the 90s) I usually don't go to those teams either, unless they are playing well. Why waste my money to watch a poor product.
But it is not as bad as most people think especially the Dolphins and Heat. The Dolphins have a fairly dedicated fan base and attendance has been poor only the past 2-4 years. You will see Dolphins fans all over the country. It is a historical franchise and even if they are somewhat competing there is good support for them. The problem is the past decade has been a failure for the Dolphins. I remember going to games in the late 90s and even early 2000s. Every game was sold out, loud as can be. Those were fun games. Hopefully they can make the right improvements to bring that back.
As for the Heat, they have never had attendance problems even in the bad years in the early 2000s. Really there have not been many poor performing years for the Heat. It is a fantastic organization and the fans get a bad rap because A. There are a lot of Heat fans outside of Miami who are not real fans, just like the Bulls and Lakers have or had in the past and B. When its popular to go to things in Miami they become expensive, so on TV you don't see a lot of the real fans.
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Originally Posted by PalmsTown
Better sports city, how? And LA has 2 hockey teams.
Don't the Dolphins struggle with attendance/black outs? I know the Marlins do. Jeesh. Nobody shows up at those games. Before Lebron came, Miami Heat has a lot of empty seats too.
Bottom line, Miami is not known as a sports town with rabid sports fans.
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Dolphins have not had a blackout in over a decade or even more I believe. There are no blackouts in the MLB but yes Marlins attendance is horrible.
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Originally Posted by PalmsTown
Just googled it. Dolphins have worst attendance in NFL.
Marlins attendance is so bad the team has closed off the Upper Deck sections. Lol. Didn't you just build these stadiums?
Those tax payers must be pissed.
Oh and you're Hockey team is in the bottom 7. Miami is the worst sports town on earth. And I don't wanna hear excuses about the beach. If you can't get 20,000 people to a game with a metro area of 6 million, that's a joke.
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Marlins stadium is new. The AAA arena, Sun Life stadium for the Dolphins and BB&T for the Panthers were all built in the 1990s with BB&T and AAA late 90s Sun Life late 80s. The Miami sports crowd is a complicated one but one which IMO is getting better with time. But it really is simple, put a good product on the floor, filed, even the ice and fans will show up. I don't see what is so crazy about not spending money on a bad product.
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