greenwing wrote:LMAO at West Palm being "in the thick of things". That's not Miami, buddy. And I actually do have friends who are Heat fans. And they would agree with what I wrote wholeheartedly. I never once disputed that there aren't loyal Heat fans. If you guys read my post in its entirety you'd have seen me actually state that. However, there aren't that many of you guys. And you don't have a large loyal fanbase. Otherwise, it wouldn't be difficult to fill out your stadium.
Your sales reps are incredibly aggressive, by the way. I bought a few tickets on the first level not far from the Bulls bench (I was sitting like a row from Steve Schanwald that night, actually) and a guy from the Heat ticketing office was calling me every few days for like a month to try to get me to buy a package of season tickets after I continually told him I wasn't interested. So I'll give your FO credit for trying to fill the stadium. But in no way is Wade this huge icon that Heat fans make him out to be.
You guys are completely missing the point on what I'm saying here. Wade is an icon to Heat fans. He is not a huge icon to the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area as a whole because the average person here doesn't give a hoot about sports. And the ones that do are more invested in football than anything else. I don't know how you can dispute that. If you've grown up in this area you should know that.
Tons of people who live in West Palm commute to Miami daily, and vice versa. We are right around the corner, we get all Miami's radio stations and the like. West Palm is known for being close to Miami.
As to your point, then why the hell would they change the county name? Also, of course they had trouble selling seats when the team wasn't all that good, and because of all the transplants, as you yourself have said.
Wade has billboards, a county name, and every other thing any other celebrity has even hoped to get. He's huge down here, whether you want to admit it or not.
