The House of Blue

Miami is currently and has always been just a god awful sports town period....and that sign pretty much proves the point.

No professional or college sport in that town draws anything. Think the Dolphins had 10-15,000 unsold tickets at their last home playoff game.

When the Marlins won their last World Series in 03 they did a survey of people at the opening game and the vast majority had NEVER been to a single game previous to that.

Of course if the Heat make the Finals then the South Beach bandwagoners will try to glom on at the last minute....just as the did for the Marlins and the Panthers when they got to the championship.

And when its over....there gone, never to be seen again.

That's amazing. As big as that series is, just nuts. I guess Miami offers other distractions.

I'll say this for the actual games, though, the level of play has been tremendous. You watch these guys play, then think back to the NCAA tournament, and you can see how bad the college game is hurting for developed talent.

OKC is crazy. Memphis, too.

Go to an Auburn, Ole Miss, etc, for a basketball game that does not involve UK and you will see a lot of empty seats. I remember how Florida was back to back champs and the year after that they could not sell out their small but nice arena. They averaged something like 90% capacity if I can remember correctly, the numbers were in the Cats Pause. I wonder what they average now? Or, what it looks like when they are playing Fla. A&M on a Tuesday?

You would not see that sign in Boston, Chicago, LA, or many of the cities you all just mentioned. As Jeff said, "Too many distractions."

Even when "the U" are national contenders in fooball they cannot sell out games. Who'd a thunk, "the U" would be outsold by UK in football? Well... we would, but not anyone else you'd ask. Great true and false trivia question. Now if we could only have thier talent base. Sorry got distracted.