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Dolphins fans ranked 31st in "Fan Equity"

I once spent $2000 to make a trip to Miami, including $300 in jerseys and other merchandise. The next year all of the players were gone from the team and 2 years later the colors and logo are changed. The team got absolutely demolished because they never showed up (40-3). I actually enjoyed the trip, but I can see the hesitation of fans, including myself now, to spend on this team. There's simply no value for the money.
 
Dolphin North said:
I once spent $2000 to make a trip to Miami, including $300 in jerseys and other merchandise. The next year all of the players were gone from the team and 2 years later the colors and logo are changed. The team got absolutely demolished because they never showed up (40-3). I actually enjoyed the trip, but I can see the hesitation of fans, including myself now, to spend on this team. There's simply no value for the money.
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Exactly. I understand being a fan, through the good and through the bad times, and what it means in American culture. To be a fan.

But at what point do you stop and say, "Am I getting my money's worth?" .... in the end, sports are entertainment. And we don't like to spend money on bad entertainment. At what point do we hold these businessmen in sports accountable? Can the businessmen just continue to put out bad, boring teams forever and play the "You have to be a true fan" from now until infinity?

In any other entertainment venue, you would go bankrupt if you provide consistently poor entertainment value.

After reaching the mountaintop of sports and winning a championship, how much time must pass before a fanbase is allowed to stop supporting a bad entertainment product? 10 years? 15 years? 25 years ? The Dolphins are going on 41 years without a championship. 30 years since a Super Bowl appearance.

I think the "be with the team through the good and the bad" card has expired on the Dolphins franchise. I wasn't even born when they last appeared in a Super Bowl.
 
Wes Welker to the Pats really isn't fair to blame the team for. When Saban left the Dolphins, he told his boy Billy B that Welker was his best player. The Patriots decided to offer Welker a poison pill contract after we gave him a 2nd round tender.

The Patriots threw in a 7th rounder if we'd just straight up trade him, so that they wouldn't look like assholes for offering a poison pill. In retrospect, a 7th round draft pick wasn't worth being ridiculed for a decade, IMO.

At the time, Welker's production really did not merit a 1st round tender at all.
 
Anybody actually think Welker would have put up those numbers here with the QB's we had throwing to him ? Cleo Lemon , John Beck , etc , etc
Brady made Wes not the other way around. He was a good tough slot guy and an adequate punt returner who bosomed in New England.

Electro does make some good points and it is hard to be a diehard Dolphin fan but never the less here we all are.
 
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electrolyte said:
Exactly. I understand being a fan, through the good and through the bad times, and what it means in American culture. To be a fan.

But at what point do you stop and say, "Am I getting my money's worth?" .... in the end, sports are entertainment. And we don't like to spend money on bad entertainment. At what point do we hold these businessmen in sports accountable? Can the businessmen just continue to put out bad, boring teams forever and play the "You have to be a true fan" from now until infinity?

In any other entertainment venue, you would go bankrupt if you provide consistently poor entertainment value.

After reaching the mountaintop of sports and winning a championship, how much time must pass before a fanbase is allowed to stop supporting a bad entertainment product? 10 years? 15 years? 25 years ? The Dolphins are going on 41 years without a championship. 30 years since a Super Bowl appearance.

I think the "be with the team through the good and the bad" card has expired on the Dolphins franchise. I wasn't even born when they last appeared in a Super Bowl.
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I'm with them. I'm just not spending another penny on them until I see a change. I think you probably know what I mean and we were talking financially with the thread being "fan equity" but I just wanted to make sure you get my idea. I'll always cheer for them and support them, but not financially until I see a change. The only thing that really made me pull back on my enthusiasm, as in encouraging my son to cheer along with me, was Bully Gate, because that goes deeper than just sucking at football. Everyone hates bullying, but I think it's something that we just think about in our family more than the average person most likely.
 
We have a lost generation of fans. We haven't won a single playoff game since the 2000 wild card game. My sons were 4 & 1 at the time. Now my oldsest is off to college and has no memory of the Dolphins ever having any success. It's no wonder this poll shows so low a rank. Your customer base is growing old and dying off without a new younger group coming up to fill the ranks.
 
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