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Undertoad · 08-14-2003, 11:03 AM

I feel Philadelphia is a football town.

The reason it isn't a basketball town: when the team was bad, post-Barkley, the fans deserted it and the arena was only half-full for a while. They like it now because feel-gooder Pat Croce spent his time promoting the hell out of it. When Iverson is gone, mediocre, or dead, the fans will desert again.

It used to be conflicted baseball/basketball, but the Phillies franchise has systematically killed baseball here. But even in 1993 it felt like a temporary thing. When the team's world series shot was followed by the strike, and then the team resumed sucking, it really took the air out of the sport here.

But football: even when the team was 3-13 there was only one TV blackout, I believe.

08-14-2003, 11:03 AM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I feel Philadelphia is a football town. The reason it isn't a basketball town: when the team was bad, post-Barkley, the fans deserted it and the arena was only half-full for a while. They like it now because feel-gooder Pat Croce spent his time promoting the hell out of it. When Iverson is gone, mediocre, or dead, the fans will desert again. It used to be conflicted baseball/basketball, but the Phillies franchise has systematically killed baseball here. But even in 1993 it felt like a temporary thing. When the team's world series shot was followed by the strike, and then the team resumed sucking, it really took the air out of the sport here. But football: even when the team was 3-13 there was only one TV blackout, I believe.