Top Team Fanbases - we're number TWENTY?

by hildymac on Aug 26, 2009 3:24 PM CDT

I'm sure that you guys have seen this over at Puck Daddy - the rankings of the top fans are out and we're in the lower end of the middle. Granted, the guy who wrote this is a Wild(s) blogger who has absolutely no pull in the hockey blogosphere that I know of, but the absurdity of the whole list is just stupid.

I already bitched about this on my blog, but I'll just copy and paste the part I wrote about the Blues' ranking (because I have a headache from mold and dust and don't want to type it again)...

So, a winning season, an amazing playoff push, and fun new talent - and we DROP two slots? How many sellouts did we have last season - 20 or so? Last I checked, there is a good deal of buzz about the Blues in St. Louis - unless you consider the standing room only crowd that wedged into the rink at St. Louis Mills to watch a bunch of 18 year old prospects do drills. The Post-Dispatch covers them very well. Yes, the Cards overshadow them, but I'm sorry - Albert does not impact Blues attendance. Heck, anyone see the dude in the Blues practice jersey next to the guy that caught one of Albert's HR Derby balls?

The only thing I can see that's pulling down the ranking is the web presence, but that's getting better. And you can find Blues swag all over the place in STL, so I don't wanna hear it. Any pro hockey team that has its own license plate is obviously pretty popular.

Of course, any team that lists the bandwagon hopping Chicago Blackhawks' fanbase as number TWO and Detroit's notorious "hey, we're freaking EVERYWHERE" fanbase at twelve is obviously, um... well, he obviously has no clue what he's talking about. Sorry.

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I saw this… I think its mostly the fact that St. Louis is a Cardinals town first and foremost that hurts our standing. There are some towns where hockey is much more the forefront of the local sports scene.

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by cold on Aug 26, 2009 3:51 PM CDT reply actions

That's the only thing I could think of.

Honestly, though, I don’t see how baseball actually diminishes the fan base seeing as how the season’s don’t overlap much – well, ok, THIS season they will. :D

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Aug 26, 2009 4:36 PM CDT up reply actions

This list is a joke

They have Chicago ahead of Toronto. I went to a Blues-Hawks game in Chicago a year-and-a-half ago and it was fucking E-M-P-T-Y. More empty than I have ever seen a Blues game, and I’ve had season tickets since the lockout.

Apparently all it takes to qualify as having a great fan base is to have a bunch of bandwagon assholes (see: Penguins, Pittsburgh.)

by Manbones on Aug 26, 2009 10:19 PM CDT reply actions

Oh yeah. . .

I forgot to finish my original point, which was that you couldn’t give away tickets in Chicago two years ago and that hockey tickets in Toronto are like Packer tickets in Green Bay- impossible to get.

by Manbones on Aug 26, 2009 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions

That ranking article reminds me why I don't do crack

The teams were pulled out of a hat I suspect.

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by spectr17 on Aug 27, 2009 2:55 AM CDT reply actions

First, Minnesota has the audacity to call themselves "The State of Hockey".

This is despite the fact that the top sport in that state is wrestling, but they don’t say anything about wrestling since it’s not even the top state for wrestling (their neighbors to the south, Iowa, are pretty much holders of that title).

Follow all that bullshit with one of their lone team’s bloggers deciding to do some pseudo-scientific poll that puts the Blackhawks at 2 (REALLY?!?!) and us at 20.

Whoever did this poll (I refuse to acknowledge them by finding out who it was) obviously was buried beneath the ice by his friends during some pond hockey game at some point and subsequently got a frozen brain . . . he still hasn’t recovered but thinks he has.

Oh well. At least the Wild(s) will look schnazzy in their new 3rd sweaters while their team bores the flying fuck out of all of us in an (at least) one-year transitional period with their new coach.

This guy needs to get fucked.

One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.

by Donut King on Aug 27, 2009 10:11 AM CDT reply actions

.. with a hammer.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Aug 27, 2009 6:40 PM CDT up reply actions

A fuckhammer.

Shall we make arrangements for a shipment to the Twin Cities?

One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.

by Donut King on Aug 27, 2009 9:12 PM CDT up reply actions

Iffen I'm every in a professional insult match

I want you in my corner as my cut man DK.

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by spectr17 on Aug 29, 2009 2:05 AM CDT up reply actions

I dunno . . .

I don’t think I hold a candle to Big Daddy Drew (Drew Magary) from KSK, honestly. But I’d be hard-pressed to decline!

One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.

by Donut King on Aug 29, 2009 6:14 PM CDT up reply actions

Could we just call it..

a Fwammer? It just sounds so much better that way.

by thistypeofthinking on Aug 30, 2009 10:08 PM CDT up reply actions

I like that.

It’s classroom friendly. I think I shall use it after lunch.

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Aug 31, 2009 11:35 AM CDT up reply actions

with my bare fucking hands

Never forget Philo T. Farnsworth

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"Turned into a monster I'm a motherfucker!!!" ~ Static X
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by Carnie on Aug 29, 2009 12:24 PM CDT up reply actions

Obviously they're not quite as "Hockey Statish" as thought...

… since Alex Tanguay passed them up to go sign with the circus that is Tampon Bay. I guess actually playing offense with Vinny is more fun than playing the trap with Marty.

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Aug 29, 2009 9:35 AM CDT up reply actions