Sorry if you may think I am dumb but...Please read this. http://espn.go.com/nba/columns/hughes_frank/1501826.html "The Warriors are a tick behind the Los Angeles Lakers, and four games out of the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot, slowly creeping up on the Houston Rockets, whose fans are so apathetic they didn't even have the good sense to assail a fast-food restaurant when they landed the No. 1 pick in the draft. How lame are they?" WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?
Sounds like "sour grapes" 2 me!!! He's probably mad that the Warriors picked Dunlevy instead of Amare!
Did you read the whole article? Hughes was joking. After the Raiders lost the Super Bowl, there was some rioting in Oakland. Hughes jokingly wrote that the fans rioted because the Warriors had won 3 in a row rather than the Raiders losing the Super Bowl. He then jokingly wrote that the Rocket fans didn't even bother to assail (i.e. riot) a fast food restaurant when they got the first pick. In other words, if the Warrior fans would riot after winning 3 games in a row, the least the Houston fans could do was assail somthing after getting the #1 pick. It is not deragotory in the least.
Sometimes I wonder why Houstonian sports fans are so laid back. We never riot, rarely pack the house, and hardly ever paint our faces. Rockets have so many to-the-death fans, but sports support overall in this great city seems somewhat weak. Lack of interest? Prices?
If you win consistently, and have some great players, the fans in Houston are the best in the world. (the real world being Texas, naturally) Back in the Luv-Ya-Blue days of the Oilers, there was some fans runnin' amok, including yours truly. Fans went nuts during the Rockets championship years. If this team stays healthy (and finds some chemistry), keeps improving (the chemistry), tweaks a thing or two with the roster (and the chemistry) and STAYS HEALTHY... well, you're going to see LOUD, packed houses for home games. IMHO. (games being cheaper for the fans would be pretty far out too)
After the Rox won it all in 1994, I saw a drunk man walking up to the drive-thru window of McDonald's with no car. He could of just went inside the restaurant to order.
Folks, look at your old line blue collar cities for the fanatascim you desire. The newer sport franchise cities with millions of transplants and transients don't affect the generations like NY and Boston and Chicago and Philly and Pitt and Cleveland for several examples. It really helps to have lots of blue collar fans and Joe Sixpack beerhall types. Houston doesn't qualify. Atlanta? Orlando? Come on. Dallas is mostly made up of denizens from a radius that always celebrated Dallas as their hub city + the Cowboys long run was crucial. Houston has fairly good fans, semi-reasonable to good ownership/management teams, but not outthere owners like JJones or Cubes. We're OK.
Don't mean to rain on your parade, deck, but isn't your 1st line the definition of the term " Fairweather Fans"?
