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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
Time to seize the means of hockey production comrades! I’ve always thought that as a casual fan that watches games on tv for free, and comments on forums for free, that I was somehow entitled to ownership and making decisions about the future of the flames.
As much guff as Kevin Lowe got about the whole Tier 1 fans thing...he was 100% correct. Season ticket holder, people who pay tens of thousands of dollars for the product, matter a lot more than people who watch the games on tv and maybe go to the occasional game. They just do. You just don’t want to say it overtly and risk alienating people because you want to try and cultivate fans into future season ticket holders. it doesn’t mean that it’s not correct to value them more though. If season ticket holders start to revolt or not renew then that will get the owners attention but a union of fans is laughable.
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The counter to this is if nobody watched on tv then there'd be no money coming in from that end and the league would inevitably fail. There are a lot more tv viewers than season ticket holders.
Totally agree that the fan union is a joke.