I respect that..but South Florida is full of fair weather fans. I’m not just saying canes fans here..more than other places Ppl down here jump ship at the 1st sign of team adversity..we flew a banner at a road game when we
I call BS on this. The great sports town, fair weather fan is just a myth. I keep hearing how Chicago is a great sports town. Check White Sox attendance. Check Blackhawks attendance when they are not good. Same with Pittsburgh another great sports town, check out Pirates attendance for the 2 decades after Bonds left.
It is simply a Lazy, BS stigma like "UM players are felons" that gets lazily repeated over and over and over again.
Put any city through the crap South Florida has seen for 25 years and attendance would suck worse.
- Heat have been the only consistent product for the last 20 years and always near the top of NBA attendance (even the last 3 years).
- Dolphins still have no TV blackouts despite the fact they have made the playoffs only twice in 15 years.
- Marlins are a disaster franchise, in 25 years, bought 2 world series championship, but never fielded a playoff level team for 2 consecutive seasons. Never gave fans a chance to bond/fall in love with any team. 2 playoff appearances in their existence....no city would support that team
- Panthers are even a worse franchise than the Marlins. Made playoff 2 times in the last 18 years in a league were over half the teams make the playoffs. Team is constantly 7 points out of last playoff spot with 2 games in hand. Amazing they haven't folded.
Then you have a the Canes, a small private school, with a small student body and alumni base having to fight for some casual fan (no affiliation to the school) entertainment $$$ to half fill their stadium when they have massively underachieved for 15 years.
The sports have sucked (outside the Heat) since 2003 in this metro area....No town would support the crap the south florida fan has been subjected to.