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Weak home crowd? 

Post#1 » by stanley14 » Wed Jan 8, 2014 6:16 am

First of all, i'm a huge Raptors fan and I was watching the game tonight and fell asleep in the 3rd quarter. This is the very first time this has ever happened to me and there was 0 excitement in the crowd. Do you guys have a very good fanbase? If you don't that's really sad because you guys have a great team.
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Post#2 » by Boneman2 » Wed Jan 8, 2014 6:31 am

The city is in gridlock because the powers that be can't deal with a snowstorm that you would view as average. As it stands most of the city's major roads are still too dangerous to navigate. In fact our mayor just lifted a ban on driving earlier today, and he doesn't smoke crack.
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Post#3 » by Nuntius » Wed Jan 8, 2014 8:56 am

Yeah, the weather in Indianapolis has been pretty terrible from what I've heard (I don't live in the US). Still, the game sold 16.000 tickets so even with the bad weather, the fans did come.
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Post#4 » by FreeRon » Wed Jan 8, 2014 12:15 pm

I'm not sure what Toronto actually considers average, but my parents live about 80 miles from Indianapolis and the temperature got to -17 (south of -40 with wind chill) with 14 inches of snow in 2 days. I looked up the numbers for Toronto. I don't know how credible the sites are, but it looks like the all-time low is -31 and they average 14 inches of snow a month. I could be biased because I watch Louisville go into a state of panic when the first flake falls, but I don't think the storm that hit you guys was average for too many people.
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Re: Weak home crowd? 

Post#5 » by Jake0890 » Wed Jan 8, 2014 1:46 pm

Well, the temperature never got above 3 degrees yesterday, the roads were snowed over, and a lot of people still don't have electricity and we still were only 2k people away from capacity.

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Post#6 » by Train7492 » Wed Jan 8, 2014 2:56 pm

It was a decent crowd for the weather. The Mayor was on TV earlier in the day and lifted the travel advisory at 5 o'clock last night. The roads were terrible. It usually takes me about 1 hour to get to game and it took me 2 hrs. I do know there was several people rolling in with me late to the game.
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Post#7 » by Starkiller » Wed Jan 8, 2014 11:12 pm

Another question about our fanbase huh?

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Re: Weak home crowd? 

Post#8 » by MillerTheKiller » Thu Jan 9, 2014 2:04 am

Yet you watch a Miami game and their stadium is never full.
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Post#9 » by mikepacernation » Thu Jan 9, 2014 4:20 am

MillerTheKiller wrote:Yet you watch a Miami game and their stadium is never full.
that is true I can't remember when I watched a heat game and their crowd was full except a playoff game
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Post#10 » by MillerTheKiller » Thu Jan 9, 2014 5:03 am

mikepacernation wrote:
MillerTheKiller wrote:Yet you watch a Miami game and their stadium is never full.
that is true I can't remember when I watched a heat game and their crowd was full except a playoff game


I swear they don't even fill the stadium until the ECF/Finals.
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Post#11 » by Scoot McGroot » Sat Jan 11, 2014 5:51 pm

MillerTheKiller wrote:Yet you watch a Miami game and their stadium is never full.


Well, that's why the seats are colored white to blend in with the Gucci and Versace official Heat fan shirts they wear.
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Re: Weak home crowd? 

Post#12 » by Scoot McGroot » Sat Jan 11, 2014 5:56 pm

stanley14 wrote:First of all, i'm a huge Raptors fan and I was watching the game tonight and fell asleep in the 3rd quarter. This is the very first time this has ever happened to me and there was 0 excitement in the crowd. Do you guys have a very good fanbase? If you don't that's really sad because you guys have a great team.


Google: polar vortex and Indianapolis.

It was illegal to drive on the roads 2 hours before game time due to the danger. It was dangerous to be in the cold for even 30 minutes. To have even 5,000 fans that night was probably bigger than any normal night sellout as people risked their lives to do so.

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