Deserves a thread, will probably get locked.

[Kent]

It's actually funny when you think about it...

All these people move to Orlando from somewhere else and choose to cheer the team of where they're from versus their new home.

If that place they came from was so great, then why don't they still live there?

I say this half tongue-in-cheek, but the logic is sound.

It would be like transferring high schools because you wanted to go to a better one, but you still sit on the visitors bleachers during football games.

If someone moves here and wants to cheer a team that isn't the Magic, more power to them. Heck, even if they cheer both but deep down prefers the team they formerly supported, cool.

But represent your new community better than cheering obnoxiously like you're a high school sophomore and making fun of Magic fans for cheering the hometown team.

"You know how I know you're an idiot?"

Sincerely,
An Orlando Native and Forever Magic Fan

[dsg2021]

That's a small market problem in a traveling hub.

We don't want players who are way too bothered by it every game and every season/off season without getting over it eventually.

Every game is a road game?
Great, now use it to become among the most comfortable on the road players in the league. The Magic were the most "deer-in-the-headlights" team I ever saw in my life when they reached the Finals in LA for three games in a row. And those were in their prime veterans. Even our Finals home games had a bug LA crowd. I think literally only Rashard Lewis stepped up. So can you see how this is an advantage for the young Magic players to experience right now?

[rcklsscognition]

We live in a city with an NBA franchise, I'm happy about that. Every time I drive downtown and see the Amway I'm a little bit prouder to say I live in Orlando. New York and Miami I can understand. New York folks move here, they like the Knicks, I'm sure those people would cheer Orlando just as loud if it was Orlando vs. a non Knicks team. Miami is close enough where they can get to the game. The rest of the teams, like GS or whatever, those are mostly kids and traveling fans that just like the NBA but the Magic were not good during their time so they're not as in to them.

[richi_v25]

Yes because NY isn't half as nice as Orlando and they can talk all they want but they prove it by deciding to live in Orlando.

Let's not trash cities or states . A lot of people here live in NY or have lived in both, including me. Trash the Knicks all you want or talk up Orlando but I'm not interested in some dumb back and forth about which city someone prefers to live in more

I think the crux of the argument is that some teams just travel well historically. I've seen Laker chants in Boston and Knicks chants in Milwaukee. It kinda is what it is.

That's just me venting from everytime I'm stuck on I-4 or I-95 knowing good and well it wasn't this bad 10 - 20 years ago(just an ole man screaming at clouds). In all honesty the Knicks are one of the top 5 teams period as far as fan bases and we're not so it only makes sense they bring in huge crowds. But as far a cities goes i personally don't care for NYC and thus haven't gone back in over 15 years and don't plan to.

[Skybox]

Yes because NY isn't half as nice as Orlando and they can talk all they want but they prove it by deciding to live in Orlando.

Let's not trash cities or states . A lot of people here live in NY or have lived in both, including me. Trash the Knicks all you want or talk up Orlando but I'm not interested in some dumb back and forth about which city someone prefers to live in more

I think the crux of the argument is that some teams just travel well historically. I've seen Laker chants in Boston and Knicks chants in Milwaukee. It kinda is what it is.

That's just me venting from everytime I'm stuck on I-4 or I-95 knowing good and well it wasn't this bad 10 - 20 years ago(just an ole man screaming at clouds). In all honesty the Knicks are one of the top 5 teams period as far as fan bases and we're not so it only makes sense they bring in huge crowds. But as far a cities goes i personally don't care for NYC and thus haven't gone back in over 15 years and don't plan to.

Plenty of little towns in the Midwest experiencing NO growth...if you hate crowds that much, they'd love to have you. I feel the same way.

[richi_v25]

Let's not trash cities or states . A lot of people here live in NY or have lived in both, including me. Trash the Knicks all you want or talk up Orlando but I'm not interested in some dumb back and forth about which city someone prefers to live in more

I think the crux of the argument is that some teams just travel well historically. I've seen Laker chants in Boston and Knicks chants in Milwaukee. It kinda is what it is.

That's just me venting from everytime I'm stuck on I-4 or I-95 knowing good and well it wasn't this bad 10 - 20 years ago(just an ole man screaming at clouds). In all honesty the Knicks are one of the top 5 teams period as far as fan bases and we're not so it only makes sense they bring in huge crowds. But as far a cities goes i personally don't care for NYC and thus haven't gone back in over 15 years and don't plan to.

Plenty of little towns in the Midwest experiencing NO growth...if you hate crowds that much, they'd love to have you. I feel the same way.

Well I live in a small town about 55 miles south of Disney that doesn't have much traffic so i love it here but whenever we need to go to big city the traffic there is now horrific. It used to take me an hour to get the Amway arena now I'd be lucky if i can make in under 2.

[Audi]

Something I've noticed that CAN be fixed: at times during ORL-MIA games, our sound crew will play a "DUM DUM CHH -- DUM DUM CHH" beat that is typical during games.

Problem is - that's the same beat as the "LET'S GO HEAT" chant. So we are basically hyping Heat fans up.