Rose Garden name to be changed next season...

[TradeNurkicNow]

This just demonstrates that Paul Allen is an outsider.

 

[julius]

I think Seattle was trying for an expansion team, so maybe we could be the other one to even it up?

Also, why can't they just tell us to wait until the Comcast deal is up? Everyone knows they aren't going to get a deal done with any of the other tv providers in four years.

An NHL team could move into the RG tomorrow (well, not exactly) whereas in Seattle they don't have an arena built, don't have the land to build it (iirc) and therefore won't be in line to do an expansion team or a relocation before Portland.

Now, will Portland/business leaders/Paul Allen drop the ball...er...puck and allow Seattle to pass Portland by and situate itself in a position TO be ahead?

Yes, and I think those of us who want an NHL team here, and are somewhat knowledgeable of the whole "NHL to PDX" movement know, it's par for the course.

 

[THE HCP]

those of us who want an NHL team here, and are somewhat knowledgeable of the whole "NHL to PDX" movement know, it's par for the course.

Actually the term "par" is associated with golf! Learn the terminology....then post FAMS!


Sent from HCPs Baller-Ass iPhone 5...FAMS!

 

[julius]

Actually the term "par" is associated with golf! Learn the terminology....then post FAMS!


Sent from HCPs Baller-Ass iPhone 5...FAMS!

Only a rich suburbanite like you would know that terminology! What, did you go to Jesuit!?

 

[THE HCP]

Bite yo tongue!


Sent from HCPs Baller-Ass iPhone 5...FAMS!

 

[maxiep]

The name doesn't matter. Living in Denver, no one calls where the Broncos play anything but "Mile High"; certainly not "Sports Authority Field". No matter what the name is, I'll still call it the Rose Garden.

 

[PapaG]

As evil as they are. Corporations are why America are as powerful and wealthy she is.

Corporations are why Paul Allen owns the Blazers, and why the Blazers are still in Portland.

 

[PapaG]

I don't quite know what you mean by "monopolizing of fan bases"... Comcast paid the most for the Blazers' rights, and the Blazers took their money. Did Comcast make a good business decision to pay so much? It's not clear whether they did or not (we don't have access to their books).

Did the Blazers hurt their long-term bottom line in pursuit of more money in the short run? Perhaps. But in the long run we are all dead and I'm not sure that, of the fans the Blazers have lost in the last six years or whatever, the broadcast situation is as big of a deal as the extended mediocrity and terrible luck with injuries.

Ed O.

It wasn't a bad enough decision that they had to cave into their competitors' demands for access to CSNW, so from a business perspective, I have to assume it's been either of a plus, a non-factor, or a loss that doesn't matter to Comcast's bottom line right now.

I think it is Paul Allen and his Vulcans who crapped on Blazers fans on this deal. For the satellite networks and Comcast, the Blazers and CSNW are a fart in the wind, even more now that CSNW lost the rights to Duck football games in the Pac-12/Fox deal.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I was more excited about the NHL talk

As for Portland or Seattle, I think Bettmen would cum all over the Lady Byng trophey (that's funny if you follow hockey) if he could move two struggling southern teams to the NW