Really? Lets see this team slip to mediocrity and Paul Allen still pay the Hefty contracts of Roy and LMA and other players.. lets see how he likes that without sales and attendance.
I don't buy it. With any other ownership group, our crowd could possibly influence decisions, but not Vulcan. They don't give a shit about public image.
"Scott Howard-Cooper has covered the NBA since 1988." Who is this clown? Anyone who uses the bad J-word is no Blazer fan. Just another hater, trying to intimidate with false history. Attendance did not drop during what he calls the dark era (when we had a much more talented team than now). Attendance didn't even drop after Bob Whitsitt left, or while Sheed waited a year to be traded, or while the Oregonian was full of clown reporting like this. Attendance dropped only when the wins dropped, caused by the media forcing Patterson-Nash to give away the talented Whitsitt players for too little. Attendance returned only when it looked like wins were returning. Attendance has been correlated with wins, not with some morality clown's version of history.
I am scared to death that Paul Allen will die and the team will go to his sister or someone like that within the Vulcan organization. Anyone who is a fan of the 49ers can attest that losing your owner changes everything. The Niners have sucked ass since Eddie DeBartolo gave up control of that team. I don't want to see that happen to our Blazers.
Those were a small minority of stupid fans. The majority of fans wanted nothing to do with him. Also, the majority of fans who left the Trailblazer fan base still have not come back. The fans the TrailBlazers have now are a new group of fans with some who've hung on and a small few who've come back. The article is correct in everything that was written. The fans of the TrailBlazers dictated what direction the club took in it's efforts to put a product on the court. They'll do it again, unless they get undermined by the pantie-huggers that run City Hall, who are the only ones who could let Paul Allen out of his contract at the Rose Garden. Chances are that there isn't enough of a story here to interest the majority of fans, though. Nobody cares who the G.M. is, as long as he isn't embarrassing the city. If the residents can't get rid of a pedophile for a Mayor, they aren't going to do anything here. But, the people outside of Portland's city limits are different. They are much more passionate about their Blazers and are more willing to do something about it.
Seemed like quite a lot of stupid fans at the time. I guess there could be a kernel of truth here - people who live in Bumfuck Oregon (not too much offense intended, I'm from there originally) don't have a whole lot of entertainment options once you exclude farm animals, so the Blazers might be a bigger part of their lives. But then again that might just be a stereotype. barfo
Hey jerk I am mad now! I guess it depends on what you are into though as a person. I live here in Hood River, and there is a pretty good abundance of things to do here. But Blazers, Ducks, and even Timbers take more of a portion of my life than, Hiking, windsurfing, snowboarding/skiing, biking, etc.
When Nash was here, there were a butt load of fans that cared about who the GM was. If PA brings in another crappy GM, and the team takes a downturn from the current path, I'm done. I care enough that I'll wash my hands of the whole bunch. Go Blazers
You mean like the 1 to 2% of fans that are getting all riled up over the KP thing. I saw a Facebook campaign that had 850 people joined up, that is a pretty low percentage of people that care. It is probably lower than the Draft the Stache group.
