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To: airborne
The Winter Classic is scheduled for Wrigley Field on New Years Day,

Competing against the Rose Bowl, The Cotton bowl, The Sugar Bowl.........etc. Brilliant marketing and scheduling! (not !)

I recently found out that they had a game last year too..........go figure.

15 posted on 08/08/2008 5:06:23 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco
I'll watch hockey over all those other games.

Two professional hockey teams, playing outdoors at Wrigley Field, or a slew of commercials, sprinkled with a dusting of college football.

Look. I get it. More people watch football than hockey. But football is rapidly becoming what baseball has already become. Drawn out. 3 hours and more for a 1 hour game. Commercial after commercial after commercial after commercial after....

Football fans are so rude that I wouldn't take my family to a game. Players are becoming legends in their own minds. Criminal behavior is fast becoming the norm as opposed to the exception. 30 second plays (or less) wrapped around 2 minutes (or more) between plays. Prices that are so high a family of 4 has to save up like their going on vacation.

Honestly, I'm glad that hockey isn't like football. If it was, I wouldn't be so attracted to it.

16 posted on 08/08/2008 5:25:06 PM PDT by airborne (Happy 21st birthday, Sidney Crosby!!!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Competing against the Rose Bowl, The Cotton bowl, The Sugar Bowl.........etc. Brilliant marketing and scheduling! (not !)

Actually it is brilliant marketing. Once upon a time those bowls were all played on New Years Day but thanks to the glorious BCS that is not true. Last year the only football game the hockey game went up against was the Citrus, Outback and Cotton Bowls which are really lesser bowls.


17 posted on 08/08/2008 6:14:09 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (I knew there was a reason I supported Phil Gramm in 1996!!!!)
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