Azaroth

I can post this kind of crap if I like.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07064/767020-61.stm

Famously, the Penguins have been trying to get a new arena for ten years from their local and state politicians, who gave one to both their baseball and football teams. Talks have been ongoing after a whole bunch of squaw-fucking, but after the slots license was lost to the Politician buddy system, “shit got real”.

Now it’s gone farther. The Penguins are “aggressively seeking relocation”. And honestly, Penguins fans wonder why. I happen to post on a Penguins board, and I’d say the large majority of the fans there are flipping and blaming ownership.

Now, I don’t see a lot of Pittsburgh TV. Just what I get on Centre Ice during the games, and the internet media I read from the city. But even I’ve seen a staggering about of spin from the local politicians involved, in a very obviously concocted manner for their own PR. Obviously Mario doesn’t know the right people, hasn’t scratched enough politician back in his life. Because if he had, it wouldn’t come down to this. It didn’t for the Pirates. It didn’t for the Steelers. It didn’t for the fucking random dude from Detroit that wanted the city’s slots license.

The Penguins want a deal that they’re able to get SEVERAL other cities to give them. Hell, they’ve been offered free $300 million dollar arenas. That are already built. They could move in tomorrow, rent free, if they so chose.

But it’s their fault because the politicians are breaking their balls over the deal, asking them to pay several million dollars every year toward the arena, sharing profit, paying for a parking garage, etc?

The fact is that they’ve been playing in the NHL’s oldest, most broken down arena for some time now. They lose money because they’re not able to offer the suites, seats, and amenities that other teams are. But they should be alright with that, they should struggle to talk to politicians for ten years, and THEY should be blamed when they’re fucked around for ten years and beyond, even when they’re being offered free facilities and $175 million buyout deals because they’re the team in the NHL with undisputedly the brightest future and the greatest collection of young stars that the league has seen since the Oilers of the 80s?

Are you truly a fan if you only support a team because it HAPPENS to be in your town, or if you turn on anyone and everyone from the team because they’re being banged in the butt by politicians playing games, if you literally threaten to burn down the house of the man who has kept their team in their town, repeatedly, even though he’s had to purchase it after it was losing so much money that its ownership had declared bankruptcy, and CONTINUE to take losses waiting on the city and state’s politicians to get off their asses and make a fair deal?