300 fans attended the "Save the Thrashers" rally? Hmm, I don't know about you, but the one time I was in Atlanta, the city had a lot more than that in its population. In the time I was there, I saw a lot of Falcons stuff, but only one family of people in Thrashers gear. Granted, I didn't get to see as much of Atlanta as I wanted, as ProgPower stared in the afternoon on both days, but given that hockey season was starting that same weekend, and the Thrashers were coming off of a playoff appearance (the ProgPower I attended was in October 2007), wouldn't there be more than just the family in Thrashers gear, as horrible the color scheme looks? And of all the Atlanta teams in that particular time period (as of October 2007, keep in mind), the Thrashers actually had the brightest future of all of them, as the Braves didn't make the playoffs, the Falcons had their well-documented problems with public relations, and the Hawks were still stinking up the joint. You can say ownership wasn't what it was supposed to be, and you'd be correct, but remember that it was the same ownership that screwed the Hawks for a lot of those years. The difference? No real effort was ever made to sell hockey to Atlanta, which brings us to right now. Anytime someone dies, there will be a lot of people coming out of the woodwork to offer condolences, many of them complete strangers. Seemingly with this rally, the Thrashers weren't even given that kind of reception, which is truly the saddest statement of them all for a team that simply didn't have the support it needed nor the dignity to walk out with their heads held high.
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