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03-14-2006, 04:54 PM
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Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
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03-14-2006, 04:57 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
gosh, david stern's going out of his way to move the team.  |
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03-14-2006, 05:21 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
yeah Portland is a basketball nba town stern knows this and whats the NW to stay there including the sonics!
I think stern might even add another Vancouver team but with local ownership so the team staysin vancouver so we can move the Twolves out of the division!
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03-14-2006, 05:26 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
Is David Stern making it up to Portland for making the Blazers throw Game 7 of the 2000 WCF? 
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03-14-2006, 05:27 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
Hope Stern is able to pull this off.
It seems to me that reuniting the ownership of the Blazers and the Garden is the sine qua non of keeping the NBA in Portland, whether its under Allen's ownership or somebody else's.
Go get 'em Davey.
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03-14-2006, 05:50 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
My bet is that the NBA fronts the money as a loan for Allen's group, at some incredibly advantageous rate, and then the Blazers own it all, eliminating the need for the city.
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03-14-2006, 06:03 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
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Originally Posted by Utherhimo
yeah Portland is a basketball nba town stern knows this and whats the NW to stay there including the sonics!
I think stern might even add another Vancouver team but with local ownership so the team staysin vancouver so we can move the Twolves out of the division!
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Portland is first a NFL town, then MLB town, then a NBA town. The NBA is the third most popular sport in Portland and that's with the Blazers and no other professional team! I say kick out the Blazers, tear down the Rose Garden and Memorial Colisuem and use that area to build a state of the art field that can house football and/or baseball!
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03-14-2006, 06:06 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
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Portland is first a NFL town, then MLB town, then a NBA town. The NBA is the third most popular sport in Portland and that's with the Blazers and no other professional team! I say kick out the Blazers, tear down the Rose Garden and Memorial Colisuem and use that area to build a state of the art field that can house football and/or baseball!
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yeah...thats a good idea....
when the blazers were king in Portland, the NFL wasn't #1 here, and MLB wasn't #2.
let's not do something stupid and "kick out the Blazers".
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03-14-2006, 06:08 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
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Originally Posted by SolidGuy3
Portland is first a NFL town, then MLB town, then a NBA town. The NBA is the third most popular sport in Portland and that's with the Blazers and no other professional team! I say kick out the Blazers, tear down the Rose Garden and Memorial Colisuem and use that area to build a state of the art field that can house football and/or baseball!
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Uhh, okay. And you think this why? The Blazers may not be popular right now, but at times in the not-too-recent past they were beloved in Portland.
I buy that Portland is also a baseball town, as evidenced by the (somewhat pathetic to me, but that's just me) huge Mariners following.
The NFL? I don't know about that. Too many years having crappy Seahawks crammed down our throats definitely killed the NFL for me. I think football fans in Pdx are more into the Ducks and Beavs, no?
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03-14-2006, 06:10 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
To bad they haven't developed technology to bash people upside the head over a forum yet.
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03-14-2006, 06:17 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
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Uhh, okay. And you think this why? The Blazers may not be popular right now, but at times in the not-too-recent past they were beloved in Portland.
I buy that Portland is also a baseball town, as evidenced by the (somewhat pathetic to me, but that's just me) huge Mariners following.
The NFL? I don't know about that. Too many years having crappy Seahawks crammed down our throats definitely killed the NFL for me. I think football fans in Pdx are more into the Ducks and Beavs, no?
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TV ratings back that up too. The #'s for the SB in Portland weren't much more than the average during the season.
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Here's the Neilson ratings for the Superbowl. Notice that there is less than a 2% increase in interest for the game with the Seahawks in it:
1 (5t) Pittsburgh (22) 57.4/83 +16.0%
2 (37t) Seattle (13) 54.4/85 +30.5%
3 (10) Detroit (11) 52.5/70 +8.9%
4 (17) Denver (18) 51.5/71 +9.6%
5 (1) Jacksonville (52) 50.4/65 -14.4%
6 (8t) Cleveland (16) 50.1/69 +3.3%
7 (2) Philadelphia (4) 48.9/67 -12.7%
8t (11) Columbus (32) 47.8/64 -0.6%
8t (42t) Indianapolis (25) 47.8/64 +15.7%
10 (5t) Buffalo (49) 47.6/66 -3.8%
11 (12t) Orlando (20) 47.2/61 -1.7%
12t (16) Norfolk, Va. (42) 47.1/65 0.0%
12t (4) Kansas City (31) 47.1/64 -8.9%
14 (25) Raleigh-Durham (29) 46.5/64 +5.9%
15 (20) Richmond, Va. (60) 46.0/66 +2.0%
16 (8t) Washington, D.C. (8) 45.9/66 -5.4%
17 (28) Minneapolis-St. Paul (15) 45.8/66 +5.0%
18 (34) Cincinnati (34) 45.5/65 +8.1%
19 (47) Dayton, Ohio (59) 45.1/64 +11.6%
20 (24) Nashville (30) 44.5/63 +0.9%
21t (26t) Portland (23) 44.4/70 +1.4%
21t (19) Milwaukee (33) 44.4/61 -2.0%
23 (18) Birmingham, Ala. (40) 44.1/59 -2.9%
24t (31t) Charlotte (27) 43.7/62 +0.9%
24t (52) Louisville, Ky. (50) 43.7/60 +14.4%
26 (35t) Las Vegas (48) 42.8/66 +2.1%
27 (31t) Dallas-Fort Worth (7) 42.6/65 -1.6%
28 (42t) Oklahoma City (45) 41.8/57 +1.2%
29 (40t) Austin, Texas (53) 41.5/61 0.0%
30 (12t) Atlanta (9) 41.3/58 -14.0%
31 (29) Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C./Asheville, N.C. (35) 41.0/56 -5.7%
32 (30) Hartford, Conn. (28) 40.9/57 -5.8%
33 (37t) Greensboro, N.C. (47) 40.8/57 -2.2%
34 (49t) Chicago (3) 40.7/62 +2.3%
35t (45) Sacramento (19) 40.4/64 -0.7%
35t (33) West Palm Beach, Fla. (38) 40.4/57 -4.7%
37 (3) Boston (5) 40.0/60 -24.7%
38 (26t) Tulsa, Okla. (61) 39.8/57 -9.1%
39 (23) Houston (10) 39.6/58 -10.4%
40 (12t) Tampa-St. Petersburg (12) 39.4/54 -17.9%
41t (21) San Diego (26) 39.1/68 -12.5%
41t (51) Knoxville, Tenn. (58) 39.1/53 -0.8%
43 (39) Phoenix (14) 39.0/60 -6.3%
44 (40t) San Antonio (37) 38.5/58 -7.2%
45 (15) Memphis (44) 38.4/53 -18.6%
46 (35t) Baltimore (24) 38.0/52 -9.3%
47 (46) San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose (6) 37.7/70 -6.9%
48 (22) Fort Myers-Naples, Fla. (66) 37.6/54 -15.5%
49 (44) St. Louis (21) 37.3/57 -9.5%
50 (48) Salt Lake City (36) 37.2/65 -7.5%
51 (56) New York (1) 37.1/53 +7.2%
52 (49t) Albuquerque-Santa Fe, N.M. (46) 37.0/58 -7.0%
53 (55) Miami-Fort Lauderdale (17) 36.2/51 -2.2%
54 (54) Los Angeles (2) 34.2/61 -8.3%
55 (53) Providence, R.I. (51) 30.7/45 -18.6%
NA (7) New Orleans (43) NA NA
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03-14-2006, 06:18 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
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To bad they haven't developed technology to bash people upside the head over a forum yet.
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Yea, really....I would have done it quiete a bit by now...
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03-14-2006, 06:19 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
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Portland is first a NFL town, then MLB town, then a NBA town. The NBA is the third most popular sport in Portland and that's with the Blazers and no other professional team! I say kick out the Blazers, tear down the Rose Garden and Memorial Colisuem and use that area to build a state of the art field that can house football and/or baseball!
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Guys, he's getting under people's skin's just like he wants. Why people keep replying to him, I dont get.
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03-14-2006, 06:20 PM
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Re: Stern Trying to Broker Blazer/RG Deal
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yeah...thats a good idea....
when the blazers were king in Portland, the NFL wasn't #1 here, and MLB wasn't #2.
let's not do something stupid and "kick out the Blazers".
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The NFL can succeed in small markets, look at Green Bay. The Blazers have worn out their welcome here, I'm giving them the boot! It's time for all of us to contact Paul Allen, Tom Potter, David Stern,etc. and tell them how we feel, the Blazers need to get moved.
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03-14-2006, 06:24 PM
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