bobcatgrad2005 wrote:After being away from the computer a while, I have read all the stuff about the oh-so-high-and-mighty Grizzlies selling out their season tickets so far in advance that you have to order them now for your unborn grandchildren (Sorry boys, this isn't Green Bay, get out of you Subaru and get over yourself), I would like to point out how sold out their ONE playoff game was last Thanksgiving... And the incredibly supportive BOOING FANS. I didn't know hippies knew how to spew hate, especially at "Their Team."
Perhaps this is the wrong thread, but it just got to me...
And the turf joke was good...
I have a problem with this statement, that we don't have good attendance because we don't sell out the first playoff game of the season. According to I-aa.org, only one team has ever had over 20,000 people at a first round playoff game. In fact, only 13 first round games have had a higher attendance than our game last year (out of the 186 all-time first round games). That means only 7% of these games have had a higher attendance. Also, 3 of these higher attended games were played in Missoula.
2005Cal Poly 35, Montana 21 (Missoula, Mont. 16,162)
1980 Boise St. 14, Grambling 9 (Boise, Id. 17,300)
1984 Louisiana Tech 66, Mississippi Val. 19 (Ruston, La. 17,500)
1986 Tennessee St. 32, Jackson St. 23 (Jackson, Miss. 24,000)
1991 Marshall 20, Western Ill. 17 (ot) (Huntington, W.Va. 16,840)
1993 McNeese St. 34, William & Mary 28 (Lake Charles, La. 17,167)
1994 Youngstown St. 63, Alcorn St. 20 (Youngstown, Ohio 17,795)
1998 Florida A&M 27, Troy 17 (Tallahassee, Fla. 16,509)
1999 Youngstown St. 30, Montana 27 (Missoula, Mont. 17,261)
1999 Troy 27, James Madison 7 (Troy, Ala. 17,102)
2000 Montana 45, Eastern Ill. 13 (Missoula, Mont. 16,212)
2000 Appalachian St. 33, Troy 30 (Troy, Ala. 17,589)
2001 Montana 28, Northwestern St. 19 (Missoula, Mont. 17,289)
2002 McNeese St. 21, Montana St. 14 (Lake Charles, La. 16,211)