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ratatatastic · 4 months ago

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ngl its absolutely crazy how much winning a cup has rewritten history and the narrative™ because hearing "theres nothing negative you can say about being a florida panther" NOW. KEY WORD ON NOW. Because this absolutely was not the fucking case even since the franchises inception like even this year yall were making fun of our attendance numbers despite them being one of the best theyve ever been LIKE HUH. WHAT DID WE FORGET THE WHOLE SOFLO IS NOT A HOCKEY MARKET WE SHOULD MOVE THIS FRANCHISE. WE'RE BEGGING PEOPLE TO FILL THE LOWER BOWL. OH I FEEL BAD FOR SASHA AND EKKY FOR BEING DOOMED TO A FRANCHISE. THIS PLACE IS AN EMBARRASMENT. ETC. are we forgetting all that. are we just not going to acknowledge that.

#txt #“you guys are living the dream!” i remember explicitly florida being a destination for the doomed #like this is absolutely insane to say to someone who got drafted by the them and had to live through the horrors #i feel as though soflo teams are very prevalent with the oh you got traded over their? i feel sorry for you buddy #like its the same narrative with fish except our glory days are behind us and our ownership is so fucking shitty #like anytime youre traded over here its treated like a funeral and a punishment #i feel like context for these type of sentences are so important #ekky literally going yeah tsa and police officers greeted us and said thank you and we've never had that #“its been pretty quiet over here” is a light way of putting it #i think the best way i can try to explain to people not in soflo about all this is thay #when cats played in dade i did not hear a single peep about them. no one talked about them even in the schoolyard.#and we loved talking about sports recaps??? like ive always remember talking about the fish heat and dolphins #ive always been invited out to those games as a kid and just enjoying it #i remember players getting invited to my school and afterschool programs or getting invited to the stadium and chilling with them #never once was a panthers player invited #we never went to games. they never went to my school. nothing.#hell for an early portion of my life i didnt even realise we had a hockey team and im a big sports fanatic #a friend when i was younger from upstate was like hockeys pretty cool ill take you to a game one day and i was like we have hockey?#it was a sport you saw on the car dealership tvs as toddled about and nowhere else #like man quiet is really putting it lightly

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