Everyone Is Trying To Make A Big Deal From KG's Comments

Kevin Garnett recently brought up the two fan bases between Philly and Boston and said this:
"Not even close," Garnett said, comparing Boston fans to Philadelphia fans. "You've got fans, and then you've got fair-weather fans. Take that how you want."

Now, people want to spin this in every way they possibly can and make it a Boston vs Philly thing, and that's the wrong approach. You have this asshole in Philly talking about the Cam Ward incident and our own Captain on his web site BBS with his own opinions. But making this a city by city rivalry is the wrong approach, I believe KG was speaking in terms of Celtics vs Sixers fans or basketball in the towns respectively.

Let's debunk a couple of myths right of the bat so we don't need to go back to it. According to ESPNs attendance records before the New Big 3 era in Boston, when the Celtics were winning 24 games the Celtics were 18th in the league in attendance (which is nothing to boast about), but the Sixers were 31st second to last in attendance with winning 11 more games that season. Or how about this year when the Sixers were 1st in the division for a real long time throughout the year? The Celtics came in with 11th overall and the Sixers finished in a pathetic 25th overall in attendance.

We can just take the averages since 2001 from both teams and the Celtics have an average of 13 and the Sixers have an average of 19. So maybe Kevin Garnett isn't out of this world when it comes to calling SIXER fans fair-weather.

As for the the rest of Boston sports you could have an argument figuring the Bruins haven't been over 15th in attendance since 2001 including last years championship run and this years great team. And I don't trust anything the Red Sox do and Football is a different animal all together, even though I was shocked the Patriots were between 11-16 for the most part, I would have assumed they were top 5.

So Philly shut up, admit it and move on. Even during these playoffs it seems their are more Celtics fans in your own stadium. Football and Baseball are your things, don't argue basketball.

It's Hockey Time!

I have a moral question?

Does it matter if I pick up a team only when they are in the playoffs? I'm not the biggest hockey guy and I'm not the biggest Bruins guy, however, I was intensely rooting for them last night without knowing much about them. The female population probably knows more about hockey than I do. Before last night, I probably couldn't name 6 people on the team.

I watched the Bruins a lot more last year when I lived with a Bruin fan in BMack, but haven't watched 5 minutes of the Bruins until last night. Last year I had my man crush in Michael Ryder (who was the ONLY reason they won the Cup last year) and once they didn't re-sign him, I had nothing to look forward to.

Whatever getting back to the topic, I'm going to be loud and cheer for the Bruins and take them under my wing now that they are in the playoffs. So does that make me a bad person, because I hate me when it comes to Red Sox and Patriot fans.