As hard as it is to believe, 5,580 fans braved the snowstorm on the East Coast to witness the Flyers top the Devils in overtime in Newark. It was by no means a pretty game, but 5,580 was pretty much 4,000 more than I ever thought would ever show up to that game. Even more amazing is that that 5,580 fans in the Prudential Center is close to the Devils average attendance for days where there is no blizzard. Of course, close to half were decked out in orange, but New Jersey will take any win like that it can get when you consider what the IZod Center looked like tonight at the start of the Bucks-Nets game.
Are there even 10 people there at all? Sometime tomorrow I'll have to find an official attendance number, but if the Nets thought that there putrid record was embarrassing, man, seeing a completely empty arena is downright embarrassing. Of course 2 blizzards in 4 days certainly is not encouraging attendance, but 5,580 people successfully made it to the Devils game. The Devils game!
The good news for those Nets fans is that none of them will have to worry about any traffic on the way back.
(FYI, Part 5 of The High School Years will be up tomorrow. Get pumped....or something like that.)
Are there even 10 people there at all? Sometime tomorrow I'll have to find an official attendance number, but if the Nets thought that there putrid record was embarrassing, man, seeing a completely empty arena is downright embarrassing. Of course 2 blizzards in 4 days certainly is not encouraging attendance, but 5,580 people successfully made it to the Devils game. The Devils game!
Apparently people realized it makes no sense to watch a non-competitive basketball team for ridiculously high prices...
ReplyDeleteOfficial attendance: 1,016.
ReplyDelete@ JC: Don't tell that to the person who typed the NBA box score! They have the attendance listed as 12,873!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nba.com/games/20100210/MILNJN/gameinfo.html?ls=gt2hp0020900772
Obviously that number is the number of tickets sold and not the number of people that went to the game (the caption of the NBA highlights video correctly identifies the attendance as 1,016), but good grief, how hard is it to post the number of tickets punched and not the number of tickets sold?
BTW, all the fans who held tickets for this game will be allowed to exchange them for another game.
ReplyDeleteAnd with the Mutts' record, wasn't that punishment enough to be at that game?