I have league pass and flip around channels a lot. One thing hilarious, and sad, is when I land on a Spurs home game. I swear after the slightest of favorable play or call for the Spurs you hear a crescendo of 8-year old girl squeals as you would expect at a WNBA or Women's soccer crowd. Granted it is good to get little girls involved in sports--but this is the NBA for Pete's sake. I don't know when it started, maybe with the Little Mermaid, maybe when their handlers couldn’t deal with Dennis Rodman---but what a shame from their former raucous, dark, mysterious, sloshed, white towel waving, ass kicking Gervin-Gilmore-Hemisphere era crowd (The Spurs were my 2nd favorite team then). I don't know who started wussing up the Spurs--but they sure succeeded all the way up through their announcers & fans.
Classy schmassy...I'll take loud and racous over classy any day. San Antonio played in a friggin' FOOTBALL stadium for so long that fans forgot how to cheer. The Alamodome was so canaverous that fans didn't even bother to cheer. I guess the fans are still getting used to the idea of playing in a building that was built for hoops...
i donno aobut you guys but i cant stand watching WNBA game, its not that there grls or anything like that, its just feel like im watching a high school game or somthin
I hope you know I was being sarcastic. I want to say many many things about Spers and their fans, but I've been just recently un-banned.
You WUSS! I should have been banned so many times, I stopped counting. Just don't worry about typing the wrong thing and roll with it.
That's just it--it is not just the arena difference. It is a crowd of little girls (or girl sounding men) versus a late night, racous, party happy, white towel waving, ass kicking, intimidating adult crowd. I remember watching some of those Ice-Man, Gilmore, Hemisphere-era fans, and they are not the current fans filling arena seats. Now you have these teary-eyed (win the Spurs lose), high-pitched squealing, bless-your-heart kind of fans. The wussification that began with the Little Mermaid and Sean Elliott and included running their one bad ass out of town on his way to 3 more titles (Rodman) is complete. Of course us Rockets benefited--I guess this is why we got Mad Max for peanuts, who kicked their ass a number of times ever since.
Is this really a Rockets board ragging on another team's fans? Really?? What, exactly, is Rockets attendence in a city of, what, roughly a billion residents?
This thread isn't about fan or attendence numbers--it is about the "squeal factor" if you will of those that do attend.
My girlfriend says its Tony Parker, according to her, and I quote, "he is so damn hot". Questions answered?
