Well, eeyore that's what you do have.  There are lots of town folks there.
I will have to confess I have not canvassed the crowds to check on their
Edina pedigrees but the point is that it is a community event to the extent
that HS athletics anywhere are a community event.  Obviously that is in
decline everywhere.  Some years ago The New Yorker had a great story on HS
basketball in Kokomo, Indiana. The story talked about the decline in support
for HS basketball in Kokomo that began in the 70's and 80's with the
proliferation of TV sports.  Nonetheless, HS hockey is still an event in
Edina.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eeyore [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 11:08 PM
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> Subject:      Re: All Minn hockey
>
> Cutler, Ken wrote:
>
> > Eeyore you are dead wrong.  Yes, hockey is dying in the city schools
> just
> > like most sports (other than basketball) are dying in the city schools.
> > But, to say that Edina, for example, doesn't support high school hockey
> is
> > crazy.  Go to one of the Edina games.  They are well attended (and full
> of
> > old Edina players) although perhaps like all HS events not nearly as
> well
> > attended as before TV inundated us with 8 basketball games each weekend
> day.
> > (My old Illinois HS used to fill a 6,000 seat arena for HS basketball on
> > weekends, but no more). And actually a lot of people read the Edina
> > Sun-Current if for no other reason than to see their kids or friends
> kids
> > names in the paper.
>
> And not a single thing you've said here contradicts any of my statement.
> Everyone you've listed as following Edina hockey has a direct connection
> to the
> team: former team members and family and friends of current team members.
> The
> size of the suburban high schools is enough that you can get good game
> attendance off of just these, plus some current students.  But to be a
> community
> event in the sense that was being discussed, you have to have general
> townsfolk
> there as well.  How many people who attended Edina high school fifteen
> years ago
> and don't have kids there are attending?  How about participation by the
> hordes
> of Edina residents who have moved there since they graduated from high
> school
> somewhere else?  If *these* sorts of people are following Edina hockey,
> then you
> have a town event.
>
> J. Michael Neal
>
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