RedBlackAttack
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Static and ever changing have opposite meanings.
Otherwise, I think your point makes a lot of sense. I would add the the immigrant point you make isn't important simply because immigrants don't have a history with Miami sports, but also because they and their families are from areas where no one plays basketball, football, and or baseball and everyone plays soccer. How are you supposed to become a basketball fan if you've never played the game?
As always, I reserve the right to use antonyms when I get into any extended rant on a completely random subject. :chuckles:
I used it incorrectly twice in two posts, too... Nearly unprecedented. Not sure what word I was going for there, but the overriding point still stands... I want that to be clear through the static.
Anyway, yes, that was partially my point in bringing up the immigrant population. Like any modern culture, I'm sure Miami's immigrant population is enamored with celebrity and the whole grandiose scene revolving around the Heat. But, there is just no way a population like that -- anti-static? -- could have the same kind of deep attachment that I'm assuming most (if not all) of this board feels toward Cleveland sports teams.
Even with that star-studded cast, these are the kinds of scenes regularly found at Heat games...
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It is the same reason why, although people in Miami will claim it is a "football city," The U and the Dolphins only draw a crowd if they are competing for a championship and not even then a lot of times. Obviously, the fact that Miami is an awful sports town isn't arguable. The real question is why... I think we've hit on a lot of the issues at play.