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Originally Posted by VANRIDERFAN
I decided to take in a Regina team with a winning program. So I went to a UofR Rams vs UofA Golden Bears game at Liebel field. Great atmosphere and fair turnout of Alberta fans. The quality of play on the field was very good. Canadians are missing out by not watching these kids playing their hearts out.
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I live close to the U of M campus so I'm there quite often for sports (CFL, WHL). But Bison football is a tough sell for my family. I took my son to a couple of games last year and this year, and both of them were boring losses with small crowds even by Bisons standards (say, around 1,500 as opposed to the 5,000 homecoming crowds when you actually get a bit of fan atmosphere). So I think he's pretty well done with it... there is no comparing Bison football as an event compared to Bomber games which in my opinion are unparalleled by anything in this province when it comes to fan energy and atmosphere.
My son loves hockey so I'm sure we will go to a few Bison hockey games this season, but that's it. Even there it's kind of comical how few people attend, anything north of 200 fans is a good crowd. There are roughly as many people at a Bison hockey game as there are at my daughter's Timbit ringette games. It's always been that way, though... there are vintage Bison hockey youtube clips from the 80s (I think isaidso may have posted them?) when there was the same 100 people in the stands for games even back then. And this is when the arena was new and there were no AHL or WHL teams in town to compete for hockey fan attention. I guess the U of M is OK with that.
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