I don't quite get the hate towards Winnipeg. Maybe I don't pay enough attention to the "bad posters" to feel that the team should be packed up and sent back to some American city that doesn't care, but personally I'm happy another team is in Canada. If their ticket sales are going well, good.
Sports is about rivalries, and I'll never feel any sense of rivalry with some team in Kansas City or Seattle. The Coyotes have been in Phoenix for almost twenty years now and it's hard to get up hate for them when nobody in Phoenix cares about them.
Another thing I don't get is the recent air of self-satisfaction around here about how other teams are no good. I'm happy with how the Flames are playing, all things considered, but this is the fifth year in a row they aren't going to make the playoffs... I mean really, who are we?
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