Is Sacramento the embodied definition of uncool?

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There's almost no Hollywood feel to the <Clippers> games except for the presence of Billy Crystal; Sacramento Kings games are more glamorous. The locals, dressed in their red shirts and jerseys, were happy nonetheless to watch their Clips shoot 61.5 percent for the game and outrebound the Suns by 20.
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You gotta love it when national writers, writing in DC about an LA sports team feel compelled to talk about the virues of Sacramento. No?

;)
 
Small market team, small city, not as flashy as LA, SF, or SD...I guess it's inevitable. But can't they pick on...I don't know...Memphis instead?
 
Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but I really don't care what they say in the Washington Post about the Sacramento Kings, especially when they're trying to be witty.

:)
 
Well, that works just fine for you, VF, but some of us (like Doc and myself) actually live in the coverage radius of the Washington Post...
 
I said I might be missing something. Having lived in Sacramento most of my life, I can honestly say I really don't care if some writer in an article about an LA Clippers game takes a cheap shot at a place he's probably never seen and couldn't even find on a map if it didn't have the big star indicating it's a state capital next to its name.

Glamorous? As if that's something to be desired? You want glamour, I'm thinking you'd be better served to go somewhere other than an NBA game.

;)
 
How does anyone see this as a knock on Sacramento???

I simply see it as a statement that says Sac has more "hollywood" at its games than the Clipps. Maybe some are reading into it too much.:confused:
 
Well that guy Michael Wilbon defended us back when we played the Lakers in the WCF and he even said that we got screwed in game 6 when every other writer was afraid to admit it. So I don't think he's trying to take a shot at the Kings.
 
I'd rather have a house full of passionate fans, then a bunch of famous people that are just there to be *cool* and be *seen*.
 
Since when was Jack Wrinkleson a Clippers fan? I couldn't believe he was at the game...............possibly rooting against them?
 
It wasn't anything negative at all, He meant glamorous by how live and Real the games are at Arco, There isn't a Arena in the league that has the old School basketball vibrations that arco arena has. Hubie Brown even said how Arco arena is a Magical Building. Arco arena is like the old Boston Garden.
 
thesanityannex said:
Since when was Jack Wrinkleson a Clippers fan? I couldn't believe he was at the game...............possibly rooting against them?
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I think he wanted attention by the media... (IMHO)
Or maybe its the closest thing to his little lakers. I don't think he was rooting for Phoenix... nahh.. can't be... :confused:
 
BK_KingsFan7 said:
Well that guy Michael Wilbon defended us back when we played the Lakers in the WCF and he even said that we got screwed in game 6 when every other writer was afraid to admit it. So I don't think he's trying to take a shot at the Kings.
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It wasn't a knock on the Kings, it was a knock on the city of Sacramento, basically stating that Sacramento is the yardstick by which you can measure other cities' un-coolness:

for example, Baltimore only has a 2.5 rating on the sac-coolness factor (ie Baltimore is only two-and-one-half times cooler than sacramento) ;)



and it is fairly hard to argue with Sac as the choice as the yardstick city, amongst the universe of NBA cities to choose from. When I lived there (Davis actually) there were many nice things you could say about the city of Sac... but hip really wouldn't be one of them. Although I do of course realize that economists/staticticians (such as myself) are generally regarded to exude sooooo much excess coolness, that an extra hip city is needed just maintain equilibrium. Clearly my situatioin was not the norm ;)
 
Mr. S£im Citrus said:
Well, that works just fine for you, VF, but some of us (like Doc and myself) actually live in the coverage radius of the Washington Post...
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No love for the Virginian Pilot for you down in tidewater, slim?

My In-laws live in Norfolk, and they always bring their pilot with them (and shun the post) when they come for a short visit.
 
KingsChick said:
^ Exactly !!

like cough cough... Jack Nickolson.

::signs::
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Jack is one of the coolest cats alive. I would never turn down him being in the building. He is a passionate fan to, so it's a win win. He's been going as long as I can remember. I'd hope to bump into him so some of his pimp juice could rub off on me just a little. I'm not hurtin', but it couldn't hurt to have a little more lol.
 
DocHolliday said:
Jack is one of the coolest cats alive. I would never turn down him being in the building. He is a passionate fan to, so it's a win win. He's been going as long as I can remember. I'd hope to bump into him so some of his pimp juice could rub off on me just a little. I'm not hurtin', but it couldn't hurt to have a little more lol.
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lol yeah but by means being a kings fan I don't hate him, but it does get on your nerves sometimes seeing him at EVERY lakers game (IMO). andd now he's gonna be at all the clippers games... oh well lol :o
 
mcsluggo said:
Is Sacramento the embodied definition of uncool?
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1. Sacramento can't be the embodied defintion of cool because it's not a body, it can only be the "encitified" definition of cool.

2. Yes.
 
kingkung said:
Michael Wilbon is awesome. He loves the Kings. And he's awesome.

Lay off.
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Wilbon is a great writer and maybe even an equally as good TV personality, you got to love the guy. Him and Tony K. are two of my favorites.
 
Considering the majority of people who live in my neighborhood....including myself......are from either Los Angeles or the Bay Area I would think we are pretty cool.
 
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