Re: To Viewers In Phoenix Hoping To See The Cardinals' Last Home Game In Sun Devil Stadium On Local TV.....
> Perhaps if the Eagles were still in contention this year, at
> least a few thousand Philadelphians might've taken the
> opportunity to have a sunny holiday weekend.
If the Eagles were any good at all, they would have blown the Cards out. But they packed it in when McNabb went down and allowed alleged QB Josh McClown to have the best game of his career.
BTW, the "announced" attendance was 44,723, but there were probably less than 30,000 actually at the game.
> However, I don't think the final NFL game at Sun Devil
> Stadium, which ain't exactly Lambeau, Soldier, or even
> 3Com/Candlestick/whatever it's called this year as far as
> historic NFL venues go, is much of a draw in and of itself.
If you've never been to SDS, consider yourself lucky. It's bad even for a college stadium. The only advantange it has for me is that I get almost door-to-door bus service from my apartment complex since my local bus route ends in downtown Tempe a block from SDS.
> I thought the Cowboys had more of a hold on Arizona than
> this, but apparently not. Looking at Gribble Nation's maps,
> there were a couple of times when stations in Phoenix could
> have carried the Cowboys game this season with no conflict
> with the Cards, but went with another game instead. On the
> other hand, it looks like their games get shown in Tuscon
> whenever possible. Must be more "natives" down that way.
They used to, even 5 years ago, but the more people from back east move here, the lower percentage of natives and long-time residents there are.
I was at a Cards game at SDS a few years ago, where the Arizona Repulsive had a sales booth. They were giving away Cowboy t-shirts with every subscription to that rag they sold. The problem was, the Cards were playing the Redskins, not the Cowboys. Yet another brilliant sales ploy by the worst major newspaper in the country, but they were still pandering to the few people that were here before the Cards arrived. Most of those people are Cowboy fans.
