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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The building is always full because it's NHL hockey, and there's a lot of money in Edmonton and not much else to spend it on. Product doesn't have much to do with (nor does it in Calgary).
Darryl Sutter's final years here weren't quite as bad as Lowe's recent run in Edmonton, but every hockey watcher outside Calgary knew the Flames were a slow-motion trainwreck. And yet a lot of fans still had blinkers on and wouldn't listen to a word about a rebuild, or trading Iginla. The hardcore Oilers fans share that us-against-the-world, a-rebound-is-just-around-the-corner attitude. Edmonton just has more than its share of those blindly faithful fans than most cities.
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If you break down the fan base of every city into optimistic, pessimistic, blindly optimistic, and clueless you will have roughly the same percentages every where.
I really don't understand the whole "our fans are better then your fans" mentality some people have. It's really pretty ridiculous when you think about it.
I get cracking jokes to get cheap laughs at another fanbase's expense, but some people actually seem to believe that there's some great truth to it.
Kind of funny, but mostly sad because that mentality probably carries through to other parts of their life.