What a difference an ocean makes
Posted: Fri Jan 4, 2008 5:07 am
Posting here from New York. Thank goodness the Blazers/Bulls game was on TV...but let me share what it is like out here.
"The Blazers? Who are they? Oh yeah, I hear they've been playing ok lately."
"Their games are on too late...who even knows what they are doing."
"Does J.R. Rider still play for them?"
"That's the team that loudmouth Walton played for, right?"
That is just some of what I got as I searched for TNT. There is barely a reconition of the team being in the NBA let alone the fact that they are doing very well given their youth. If the average person on the street is any indication, it's no wonder people don't know who Charles 'Bo' Outlaw is at ESPN.
I think given time that will change and beating the Bulls on national TV is huge but you have to realize, that game finished around 11 pm back here. Even though it was on TNT, a lot of people were watching the BCS nonsense or had turned it off and gone to bed.
Don't give up the faith though.....I'm brought my Blazers Advisory Board sweatshirt and am going to wear it proudly. It's damned cold back here.
Good night from the Big Apple.
"The Blazers? Who are they? Oh yeah, I hear they've been playing ok lately."
"Their games are on too late...who even knows what they are doing."
"Does J.R. Rider still play for them?"
"That's the team that loudmouth Walton played for, right?"
That is just some of what I got as I searched for TNT. There is barely a reconition of the team being in the NBA let alone the fact that they are doing very well given their youth. If the average person on the street is any indication, it's no wonder people don't know who Charles 'Bo' Outlaw is at ESPN.
I think given time that will change and beating the Bulls on national TV is huge but you have to realize, that game finished around 11 pm back here. Even though it was on TNT, a lot of people were watching the BCS nonsense or had turned it off and gone to bed.
Don't give up the faith though.....I'm brought my Blazers Advisory Board sweatshirt and am going to wear it proudly. It's damned cold back here.
Good night from the Big Apple.