Tiger Woods Disses NHL

[GopherHockey]

As if he needed to come off as any more smug than he already does.

:angry:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puc...?urn=nhl,85795

[tequilamonster]

its just fact...

americans dont give a rats ass about hockey


B)

[GopherHockey]

tequilamonster wrote:

its just fact...

americans dont give a rats ass about hockey


B)

Well I\'m American and I do, it probably has something to do with the fact that I\'m from Minnesota and grew up playing though. Yes, it the US it\'s more of a regional following but there are still many passionate hockey fans. Either way comments like that aren\'t going to earn Tiger any more fans, not that he needs any more anyway.

[jL67s]

Some pockets of the US love hockey, some only love hockey when the team is winning, and some places shouldn\'t even have a team at all.

I liked when Milbury called him Tiger Wuss on TSN, talking about arthroscopic knee surgury keeping him out for two months compared to Ryan Malone getting his face smashed in by a slapshot and not missing a shift.

Tiger should also think about how no one would be watching golf if he wasn\'t around.

[Crazynuck]

There was another forum on this tiger issue but after reading the yahoo article I\'m even more pissed off.

I just spend a week in West Virginia and ppl there are huge Pens fans. Glad to see small pockets in the US that love their hockey. I have been there whn they have struggled so ppl are not just cheering cause of the pens doing well.

[Dobber]

This is being discussed in the \"Other\" thread already.

Also, to hide a link within a word, click \"URL\" and then beside the first url add = and then your url. Like this:

[url=www.billybob.com)BillyBob[/url]

(except, the one round bracket needs to be a square)

You can click \"edit\" and fix that hyperlink if you want (please do)

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[DarthVain]

I know last year I had an eye opener. I took a vacation down in
South Carolina the beginning of last summer. The girls took us
outlet shopping in Mertle Beach. I went into this hat store that
had hundreds of different hats (maybe even a couple thousand).
Anyway long story short there were literately hundreds of
college basket ball, hundreds of football, hundreds of baseball,
etc... I found ONE hockey
hat. ONE. It was a Hurricans hat, which was on the bottom of the
wall stack (essentially on the floor under everything else).
This when a year after they won the cup (Ducks would win it in
a couple of weeks). This illistrated to me
better than anything else how americans (generally) feel about the
sport. Yes I know there are pocket markets out there, but wow was
I blown away.

[repenttokyo]

DarthVain wrote:

I know last year I had an eye opener. I took a vacation down in
South Carolina the beginning of last summer. The girls took us
outlet shopping in Mertle Beach. I went into this hat store that
had hundreds of different hats (maybe even a couple thousand).
Anyway long story short there were literately hundreds of
college basket ball, hundreds of football, hundreds of baseball,
etc... I found ONE hockey
hat. ONE. It was a Hurricans hat, which was on the bottom of the
wall stack (essentially on the floor under everything else).
This when a year after they won the cup (Ducks would win it in
a couple of weeks). This illistrated to me
better than anything else how americans (generally) feel about the
sport. Yes I know there are pocket markets out there, but wow was
I blown away.

go to north carolina and see the difference.

[lockedge]

Truth. last year when I was in NC...not even on the mainland...there were some crazy fanatics and tons of merchandise in the stores, among other showings of team loyalty. I was down there just before they won the cup too, and man...it was intense!

It may have taken a cup win to REALLY spur mass support, but you\'d be surprised at how many hardcore fans there are.