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Originally Posted by soulchoice
I’ll always cheer for the Flames no matter what city they are in, even if they moved. Truth is, a new arena has to be built, or it’s likely they will be gone at some point. I’m currently not living in Calgary now, but may move back. If I was living in Calgary and they left, that will be a sad day, even if the city was to get a new franchise, eventually.
To have a city that is over a million people with no major professional sports team is not somewhere I’d want to be long term, as I like attending sporting events. Especially since I do not care about second or third tier leagues, hence, I don’t watch or follow any other local clubs. (Exception, Wranglers due to the Flames affiliation).
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LOL, love the 'Mr. Big Time' attitude towards watching sports. "I can only enjoy or derive entertainment out of watching sports so long as other people acknowledge it as important enough or 'big league' enough to warrant my attention"
I recently moved to a mid-sized US city that has a AAA baseball team and an ECHL team that's less than an hour away from Detroit which has the full complement of North American professional sports teams. I find attending the local games are actually more fun than attending Flames/Red Wings games in person or attending games at most MLB venues. The quality of hockey / baseball is still really high (in fact in the ECHL the Give a S*&t meter is much higher for the players game in game out than the NHL), the games are packed, the Fans are engaged and the tickets are much cheaper. The only thing missing is that other people in bigger cities care about it or are aware of it. If you need that external validation to take pleasure in an activity than so be it, but from strictly a sports perspective it's not a requirement to have a good time.