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Originally Posted by irish
Very true, Pgh has had a lot of people move away from Pgh and its hard to go anywhere without running into someone from Pgh. The DC area is full of the Pgh diaspora (maybe more than any city on the east coast) and that certainly has an effect on how well they do at taking over stadiums. The problem is that outside of DC there rally arent many Skins fans (the Skins havent done much lately to attract new fans) so they just dont have the numbers to really take over a stadium.
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I don't know if anyone has seen the interview w/ Ted Leonsis, owner of the Caps on comcast recently. He talks about the decision to purchase the Caps and what his goals were. To paraphrase his thoughts:
-Create passion w/ the fans
-Create a family environment at Verizon
-Create new, young Caps fans by enticing families to come out to games
- put a product on the ice that fans will like and can get behind
Those aren't his exact words but how refreshing is that. A focus on the family and creating energetic, new fans. Someone could learn something by that. The product has to be good obviously. TL is a smart dude.