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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
As Snakeye talked about they kicked the Dawgs who had a positive history in this city, out of Foothills - even though a shared arrangement made sense. They lost a lot of baseball supporters with that move.
But more than that, they made a real poor first impression on Calgary fans. The first game ever was marred by lack of staff, concessions and a delayed start time - all because they actually motivated 2,000 or so fans to come out and try it and dropped the ball by not being ready.
I've talked to some fans that went to that first game and they swore never to go back. The Vipers will never recover.
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honestly, i find that to be ridiculous. Of course there are going to be problems the first day of business. Hell, the golf course I joined forgot to cut a hole on one of the greens the first day it was open 15 years ago. I didn't boycott the course becasue of something that happened the first day...
The dawgs being kicked out may be reason to get a bit upset...but again, holding grudges for that long doesn't seem to do anyone good.
about 1200 people were at the game on saturday. That's not a horrible showing...I'm not sure how many seats burns stadium (or whatever it's called now) can hold...must be around 5 or so.