I don’t Knicks or all NYC sports teams, but media members enamored with NYC teams has to be well over 50%. That’s problem with US media in a nutshell. Most people don’t live in NYC. Despite its enormous population, most of the nation would never want to live in NYC either. Sports like baseball and to a lesser degree basketball, that have allowed broadcasters to wax too poetic about NYC have lost tons of viewers. NFL has mostly gone through KC last decade, Philly aside. As for NY, Buffalo the far more meaningful team. I insist this lack of NYCcentric focus has helped NFL grow to dominate sports ratings in US. Believe it or not in the 1970’s baseball was the thing. The Yankees were good, but the Oakland As, Cincinnati Reds and Pirates stole the decade. If I were hiring young sports media today at a national level, I would look for someone outside of Big Apple.
But congrats to your Knicks. Most of nation will pull for Pacers. Neither team can beat OKC or Denver. Tonight is the championship game. Timberwolves are not going to Finals either.
I think you're certainy allowed to adopt the team of the city your live in, but it should be secondary to the team you grew up rooting for. So while I think it's fully acceptable for you to be pulling for the Knicks now, in round one you should absolutely have been rooting for the Pistons.
There's a maxim for traders not to trust anyone who has not been actively trading through three complete market cycles.
I maintain my birth sports loyalties (Seattle, University of Washington) but got Knick season tickets starting in 1984. My first three seasons saw 24, 23 and 24 wins. That was fine with me because I came to see the other teams and watch basketball. I liked the fact that only basketball fans showed up instead of people drinking, schmoozing and booing every call against the Knicks or for the other team. And there weren't lots of annoying ads or cute games on the screen. There were plenty of celebrities, but basketball-fan celebrities, not show-up-for-the-cameras celebrities.
Excitement picked up with ROY Patrick Ewing in 1985, but we had to wait for ROY Mark Jackson to hit the big time--14 seasons making the playoffs with 60% regular season win percentage. The Knicks didn't distinguish themselves in the playoffs but they had some great series, and they always mattered. They won 11 of their first rounds and two of the three losses were to powerful Celtic and Bulls teams. And only once were they swept in a playoff series. Teams brought their best games to New York, even February cellar-dwellers finishing long road trips.
Then came the bad years, 21 seasons with only two winning seasons--42 and 54 wins and a 1-6 record in playoffs series.
So I'm finishing my second market cycle--assuming this three-year resurgence lasts a bit longer.
Ok, explain to me the name. The only reference I have for the word Knickerbocker is the name of a beer. Why would anyone name their team after a beer? That being said, I hope they win the whole thing. It's about time and they deserve it.
I assume Nate is doing OK financially - can a New Yorker explain to me why they have seats 200 rows back? Just how hard is it to get good seats at MSG???
For context I'm a dumb Australian - this week my home team in Australian Rules football played in front of 67,000 people, and of course that meant there were 33,000 empty seats.
I watched all the games against the Celtics, the meltdown by Boston from the 3 point line in the first two games was of epic proportion. I've never seen a team continuing to go to that well and come up empty. The Knicks will go as far as Brunson can carry them. Of all the remaining teams, I find Minnesota the most interesting and fun to watch.
Yes, the underdog team, every broadcast of which starts with the camera pointing out all the celebrities sitting courtside. Fuck outta here with that shit!
Wait: did you cheer for the team OVER the Pistons?
Because adopting a secondary team makes sense; replacing a team you were actually fond of is blasphemy.
I don’t Knicks or all NYC sports teams, but media members enamored with NYC teams has to be well over 50%. That’s problem with US media in a nutshell. Most people don’t live in NYC. Despite its enormous population, most of the nation would never want to live in NYC either. Sports like baseball and to a lesser degree basketball, that have allowed broadcasters to wax too poetic about NYC have lost tons of viewers. NFL has mostly gone through KC last decade, Philly aside. As for NY, Buffalo the far more meaningful team. I insist this lack of NYCcentric focus has helped NFL grow to dominate sports ratings in US. Believe it or not in the 1970’s baseball was the thing. The Yankees were good, but the Oakland As, Cincinnati Reds and Pirates stole the decade. If I were hiring young sports media today at a national level, I would look for someone outside of Big Apple.
But congrats to your Knicks. Most of nation will pull for Pacers. Neither team can beat OKC or Denver. Tonight is the championship game. Timberwolves are not going to Finals either.
I of course meant to say “I don’t hate Knicks or all NYC sports teams”. I wish comments had an edit feature.
They do. On the iOS app and the web.
I think you're certainy allowed to adopt the team of the city your live in, but it should be secondary to the team you grew up rooting for. So while I think it's fully acceptable for you to be pulling for the Knicks now, in round one you should absolutely have been rooting for the Pistons.
There's a maxim for traders not to trust anyone who has not been actively trading through three complete market cycles.
I maintain my birth sports loyalties (Seattle, University of Washington) but got Knick season tickets starting in 1984. My first three seasons saw 24, 23 and 24 wins. That was fine with me because I came to see the other teams and watch basketball. I liked the fact that only basketball fans showed up instead of people drinking, schmoozing and booing every call against the Knicks or for the other team. And there weren't lots of annoying ads or cute games on the screen. There were plenty of celebrities, but basketball-fan celebrities, not show-up-for-the-cameras celebrities.
Excitement picked up with ROY Patrick Ewing in 1985, but we had to wait for ROY Mark Jackson to hit the big time--14 seasons making the playoffs with 60% regular season win percentage. The Knicks didn't distinguish themselves in the playoffs but they had some great series, and they always mattered. They won 11 of their first rounds and two of the three losses were to powerful Celtic and Bulls teams. And only once were they swept in a playoff series. Teams brought their best games to New York, even February cellar-dwellers finishing long road trips.
Then came the bad years, 21 seasons with only two winning seasons--42 and 54 wins and a 1-6 record in playoffs series.
So I'm finishing my second market cycle--assuming this three-year resurgence lasts a bit longer.
"embrrassingly" That's a very interesting word. It may catch on.
Also, glad you're not wasting my subscription money on courtside seats.
Ok, explain to me the name. The only reference I have for the word Knickerbocker is the name of a beer. Why would anyone name their team after a beer? That being said, I hope they win the whole thing. It's about time and they deserve it.
I assume Nate is doing OK financially - can a New Yorker explain to me why they have seats 200 rows back? Just how hard is it to get good seats at MSG???
For context I'm a dumb Australian - this week my home team in Australian Rules football played in front of 67,000 people, and of course that meant there were 33,000 empty seats.
I watched all the games against the Celtics, the meltdown by Boston from the 3 point line in the first two games was of epic proportion. I've never seen a team continuing to go to that well and come up empty. The Knicks will go as far as Brunson can carry them. Of all the remaining teams, I find Minnesota the most interesting and fun to watch.
Yes, the underdog team, every broadcast of which starts with the camera pointing out all the celebrities sitting courtside. Fuck outta here with that shit!