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Hockey on TNT

Both of those spring-and-early-summer minor leagues exist purely because television needs some sort of team sports programming other than baseball during the months in which the other sports are either in their off-seasons or in their playoffs (which negatively impacts ratings/revenue in cities whose teams aren't in the playoffs). Neither league is playing all of its games in their franchises' home cities, resulting in "studio football" with few people in the stands, showing little enthusiasm.

Maybe some of these teams, in cities that don't have NFL football, will eventually develop strong fan bases of their own. That's why you're seeing games played in Birmingham and Memphis and, oddly, Canton, Ohio. But really, does the USFL really think that actually putting the New Jersey Generals in the NYC area rather than Canton or the New Orleans Breakers in New Orleans rather than Birmingham would be a good idea?

Is the NFL playing 12 months a year? No. But in fan interest, even in the off-season, it's as close to a year-round sport as we have.
 
landtuna said:
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And, although I'm a big fan of Laupers "Time After Time" she is the musical equivalent of Evel Knievel.
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Nobody in the South is interested in the NHL, although there are teams in the Sunbelt. People down there are interested in college football or basketball. It's a religion south of the Mason-Dixon line. When I was down in Florida in January of '91, just about every radio station was airing a college basketball game. It's followed with fervor and reaches its peak with the post season tournaments. Try talking hockey to someone in New Orleans, and all you'll get is a shrug.
 
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Nobody in the South is interested in the NHL, although there are teams in the Sunbelt. People down there are interested in college football or basketball. It's a religion south of the Mason-Dixon line. When I was down in Florida in January of '91, just about every radio station was airing a college basketball game. It's followed with fervor and reaches its peak with the post season tournaments. Try talking hockey to someone in New Orleans, and all you'll get is a shrug.
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Nobody, huh. Nobody in Miami-Fort Lauderdale, where the Panthers sold out their playoffs after slower sales through the season.
Nobody in Tampa Bay, where sellouts are common, as are Stanley Cup parades.
Nobody in Carolina, where the Hurricanes are popular and a Cup banner hangs in the rafters in Raleigh.
Nobody in Nashville, where the Predators are the toast of Music City.
It's not quite all SEC and ACC.
 
blackgold said:
Nobody in the South is interested in the NHL, although there are teams in the Sunbelt. People down there are interested in college football or basketball. It's a religion south of the Mason-Dixon line. When I was down in Florida in January of '91, just about every radio station was airing a college basketball game. It's followed with fervor and reaches its peak with the post season tournaments. Try talking hockey to someone in New Orleans, and all you'll get is a shrug.
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The "Sunbelt" is majorly different than the "South".

Try talking anything to someone in N'Awlins and all you'll get is a shrug. There's a reason Jay Leno never did "Streetwalking" down there.
 
blackgold said:
Nobody in the South is interested in the NHL, although there are teams in the Sunbelt. People down there are interested in college football or basketball. It's a religion south of the Mason-Dixon line. When I was down in Florida in January of '91, just about every radio station was airing a college basketball game. It's followed with fervor and reaches its peak with the post season tournaments. Try talking hockey to someone in New Orleans, and all you'll get is a shrug.
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New Orleans has never had major league hockey and hasn't had a minor league team since 2002. The cities tvnut mentioned have all taken to NHL hockey. As far as Florida goes, surely you aren't suggesting that attitudes toward hockey in the Miami and Tampa areas haven't changed in 32 years!
 
landtuna said:
The "Sunbelt" is majorly different than the "South".

Try talking anything to someone in N'Awlins and all you'll get is a shrug. There's a reason Jay Leno never did "Streetwalking" down there.
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A lame Jay Leno bit is your litmus test? People in New Orleans are passionate about music. Saints and LSU football are insanely popular⚜️.

Hockey is not huge in the South, but many Northern transplants live there now. Tampa, Carolina, Miami, Dallas, must be doing OK. Atlanta had its team move to Winnipeg.
Hockey is still a fringe sport, but to say "nobody" cares is greatly exaggerating...
 
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