You think it's SMART to throw your money to the Bidwills? What have they ever done to deserve sold-out stadiums? Continue suckage doesn't really attract fans ya know.
What loyalty (outside of the 35K diehard fans) has Phoenix ever shown to the Cardinals to deserve a good team? It's the same way with all your sports franchises. Look at the Diamondbacks. They have already won a world series and the fickle frontrunning phoenix fanbase rewards them with dismal attendance.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=70153
I assume you grew up in St. Louis loving the Cards. That's cool, but here in Arizona it's different. The Cards have done absolutely nothing to win over the fans here.
What loyalty did success (World Series) net the Diamondbacks? Fact is, if the team isn't out in front the frontrunners don't show up.
If the Cards won the superbowl next year all those "new fans" would throw their brand spanking new cards jersey (probably only purchased once the hypothetical playoffs were clinched) in the back of the closet the first sub 500 year afterwards.
The Bidwills should be kissing Arizonans' collective asses for building them that stadium. Instead...the 10 million under the cap team continues to suck!
They aren't 10 million under the cap anymore (resigned Dockett) and you don't know for certain if the Bidwills closed the tap or if Green stopped pursuing talent. Phoenix should be kissing Bidwills ass for sticking him in a **** stadium for 20 years and being two decades late on the promise to build a stadium.
Who is paying for that stadium anyway? The Cards threw in something like $150 million and the rest is coming from taxes on tourists. People like me that travel to AZ several times a year to watch the Cardinals play. (and get drunk at the dirty dog)
You wouldn't believe how many people I talk to who say, "I'm trying to become a Cardinals fan." It's just too bad this franchise can't cash in on winning over more fans. It's a real tradgedy.
Those are probably the same frontrunning suckasses that only showed up in 1998 for the last game of the season and tore down the goalposts.
Reminds me of this frontrunner at work. This guy is so damn lucky. His football team wins the superbowl
every damn year! Problem is he only knows who to root for during the offseason.
There are frontrunners in every city (look at all the hoopleheads in STL who didnt give two squirts about baseball two weeks ago). But it would seem that 50% of the frontrunners from any given city in the US migrated to Phoenix.
fan is short for fanatic.
According to Webster: fanatic - marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion
According to Phoenix: fanatic - marked by excessive enthusiasm after success is guarenteed and often brief devotion in the moment.
