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Originally Posted by nik-
Are we re-writing history now and pretending the Jets left because they couldn't get a publicly funded arena?
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Are we incapable of understanding what we just read? Enoch was talking about the effect on a community when the only major-league sports franchise in town packs up and leaves.
Why the team leaves is not relevant to that point.
If anything, it strengthens his point. If the Jets, who had so few fans that they could not fill up one of the smallest arenas in the NHL at low ticket prices, left that kind of a void when they pulled out of the community, one would think the Flames, who have a larger and more avid fan base, will leave a bigger one.
But sure, let's accuse someone of being a liar because he didn't actually make the strawman argument that you wanted him to make.