First it was that people were more interested in following the Ducks, then after yesterday they just want to take a break from sports. Give it a couple of weeks, all will be good. Although one guy I know doesn't want to follow the blazers till LMA is gone because he's tired of getting attached to players just to see them leave. Me, I haven't been yet since I've just been traveling so much.
I've never been a huge "live game" kind of guy but in years past I'd usually go to at least 5 or so games a season, but last year and this year I've really lost my desire to go at all and I don't watch games religiously like I used to. I haven't replaced it with anything really, but I sometimes wonder if maybe the Oden and Roy drama didn't dampen my enthusiasm for the team? Let's face it, this team has been gut-wrenching and exhausting to follow for a long time and the Roy injuries and Oden implosion have made it very hard to re-invest myself and care about how they are doing. I doubt I'm the only person who feels this way.
There are 2 ways to obtain high attendance. 1. Be a big winner, as we were under Bob Whitsitt until the Oregonian forced him out. 2. Convince fans that we're within a couple years of becoming a big winner, e.g. the McMillan era. Attendance is down because the golden future appears more than 2 years away.
The PR machine failed, then, because they are def. trying to sell the blazers as a win now team. lol.
I would be there if I could. This is the time to get into them with young, vet, and new players on the team. Oden and Roy is old news. Lick your wounds and reinvest in the new Blazers. I like what I've seen so far. The team is working together and trying to win and that's all I ask of the Blazers. A few more wins and the seats will fill. GO BLAZERS!!!
I've already bought tix to 2 games. Won't buy much more since I have season tix to the Timbers and Beavs.
I'm sorry, but this is freaking pathetic. If people in Portland don't think a guy like Dame is worth watching, how/why will the NBA market him at all? EDIT: BTW, tonight will be the third game out of our first six on KGW. Is this normal? Perhaps they're trying to increase interest/exposure with the Comcast issue going on?
Maybe soccer has replaced basketball as the young person's sport in Portland, and the Blazers are for olde people who can't acknowledge that soccer is a way better live experience here...?
Can't be a price issue either. Resale prices on Stubhub for the game vs DET on Monday for example are ~$10 with fees for the upper deck. I haven't lived in PDX in seven years now. Are the Timbers really that big of a deal?
Their last game had 20,000+ people at it... just saying'. Yeah, the Timbers are a big deal here, and the live experience is bar-none amazing. Plus it's playoff time right now, so if you're comparing $20 ticket to $20 ticket, and you can only buy one this week, the Timbers are the better value.
I'd rather go to a Timbers playoff game than a Blazers/Lakers game right now. But there are a lot of qualifiers there. No Kobe, early season, and the atmosphere at the Timbers. If it was WCFs vs WCFs, and the Blazers were favored/best team in conference, I'd go to Blazers. Btw, the Timbers should totally see about playing a game at Autzen. They'd sell out that place easily, imho.
they did play at Autzen years ago. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HIURAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MuIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6636,880294 the attendance the year before was 2100, but I don't know how rampant fans were back then compared to today. Don't know what the attendance total was for the game that this article was talking about though.
