You Don’t Mess With the Leonsis
Some douche suggested in a recent Yahoo! Sports article that the NHL contract six teams, with the Washington Capitals being named in the list.
So then, my boy and yours Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis responded with a genuine post politely calling him a dummy.
Now, Yahoo! has responded a few more times in an effort to show they are not easily pushed around by a big bad owner. Yahoo!, Jamie Mottram can tell you that Ted Leonsis is no big bad owner. He’d sooner buy you a laptop to blog Caps games than sue you for copyright infringement.
The most recent piece makes the case for Washington being a hockey town instead of a Washington Capitals town.
This is nothing to be ashamed of, because this is the nature of the community: Full of transient government workers and college students and young urban professionals transplanted here from another part of the nation. The Penguins fans that show up for games at Verizon Center aren’t busing down from Pittsburgh for the night. Ditto the Sabres fans, the Flyers fan, the Rangers fans, the Devils fans, and even that guy I saw wearing a Forsberg Avs jersey last season.
Well, if you know that, why is it a big revelation fit for publishing? If you know that football is king in Washington, and the lackluster hockey team which is just finding its ground as an Eastern Conference contender hasn’t had the benefit of Leonsis’ vision for 20 years, why even go there?
Because Leonsis went there with you?
Come now. We who are D.C. sports to the bone know full well that any team not named Redskins in this area is a take em’ or leave em’ proposition. If they are doing well, great. If not, oh well. Adams Morgan awaits.
Leonsis approached this entire bogus idea with the right persepctive, the humantarian and community value of sports franchise. We’re not talking about New York or Chicago here. This is D.C., where fair weather is the climate of choice. The Caps are on the rise and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to keep them around.
Or an owner that’s willing to speak up about it.
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Damn….I can’t wait until Leonsis owns the Wizards….of course, that’s not to say that Pollin won’t give him the shaft of broken promises yet again.