Post by jetsmolson on Jun 6, 2011 21:20:19 GMT -5
Still 1 week after the big announcement and today Winnipeg is hot talk on all the major sports radio stations in the United States.
Hockey talk was big before game 3 stanley cup finals and Winnipeg was always mentioned. Around 6pm today the best was on Mad Dog radio. The host who is a big time Ranger fan and he always talks Rangers and Eastern Conference games during the season said Winnipeg blew away the NHL with their support selling out in basically 30 seconds.
He said he has a strong problem with Gary Bettman and that he said Winnipeg media should have blasted him last week when said Winnipeg needs to sell out this building or it will fail.
He said if he was in the media asking questions last Tuesday he would have said ''excuse me commisioner why are you giving Winnipeg different requirements when about 12 teams in your league don't even come close to selling out and aren't making ticket revenue from the cities fans like Winnipeg. And you are saying Winnipeg must sell out?
He also took callers for about 20 minutes and there were tons of fans calling in from New York, Pennsylvania, Mass/Conn, even Texas, Tennessee, 1 from Ontario.
It's amazing how Winnipeg is top news. This is why we need Winnipeg in the team name. It puts this city on the world map.
Sporting News was great. 2 live stews who are based in Atlanta said it sucks Atlanta lost the team but Winnipeg should have never left. These 2 guys who played in the NFL knew everything about Winnipeg because of the Jets. They even knew Winnipeg invented the whiteout that teams across the world use.
Another SNR host was saying that Winnipeg might be the best story in sports at the end of next year in history. And how could this city not have had NHL hockey all these years. Something is wrong with the NHL he explained.
ESPN afternoon guy Gottleib played clips of must have been sound at portage and main saying ''for 15 years people of Winnipeg could be heard saying these words even at games that involved 2 completely different teams speaking over ''go jets go'' chants.
Hockey talk was big before game 3 stanley cup finals and Winnipeg was always mentioned. Around 6pm today the best was on Mad Dog radio. The host who is a big time Ranger fan and he always talks Rangers and Eastern Conference games during the season said Winnipeg blew away the NHL with their support selling out in basically 30 seconds.
He said he has a strong problem with Gary Bettman and that he said Winnipeg media should have blasted him last week when said Winnipeg needs to sell out this building or it will fail.
He said if he was in the media asking questions last Tuesday he would have said ''excuse me commisioner why are you giving Winnipeg different requirements when about 12 teams in your league don't even come close to selling out and aren't making ticket revenue from the cities fans like Winnipeg. And you are saying Winnipeg must sell out?
He also took callers for about 20 minutes and there were tons of fans calling in from New York, Pennsylvania, Mass/Conn, even Texas, Tennessee, 1 from Ontario.
It's amazing how Winnipeg is top news. This is why we need Winnipeg in the team name. It puts this city on the world map.
Sporting News was great. 2 live stews who are based in Atlanta said it sucks Atlanta lost the team but Winnipeg should have never left. These 2 guys who played in the NFL knew everything about Winnipeg because of the Jets. They even knew Winnipeg invented the whiteout that teams across the world use.
Another SNR host was saying that Winnipeg might be the best story in sports at the end of next year in history. And how could this city not have had NHL hockey all these years. Something is wrong with the NHL he explained.
ESPN afternoon guy Gottleib played clips of must have been sound at portage and main saying ''for 15 years people of Winnipeg could be heard saying these words even at games that involved 2 completely different teams speaking over ''go jets go'' chants.