Wee Eye

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:20:54 -0400, "Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net> said:

> Burlington, Vermont has a very strong local sports interest, e.g., 
> Catamounts, high school, Lake Monsters.  There is, decidely, a Red Sox 
> lean with the occasional Yankees infiltrate [cough].

But note, by contrast, that Burlington's pro football and hockey
allegiances are nowhere near as simple.  When I was growing up, the
"home-town" hockey team was located ninety minutes to the north, not
five hours to the southeast, and the TV network situation, with NBC
being on the Plattsburgh station, meant that we saw Jets games and not
Patriots games.  I recall football allegiances being evenly split
between the Jets and the Giants, with Patriots fans being a decided
minority.  Among the hockey fans there were some Bruins followers, but
unless you had cable and the expensive sports package you never saw
Bruins games on TV.

(Of course in college football I doubt many Vermonters care about the
B.C. Eagles.  In college hockey, of course, there is a local team --
and again, I doubt the Beanpot holds much interest in Burlington,
unless things have changed markedly in the past fourteen years.)

-GAWollman