Comments on: A Winter Festival to Win Varsity Chili Dogs! http://www.bloglanta.com/archives/195 For fans of everything ITP Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:47:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Paul Thompson http://www.bloglanta.com/archives/195#comment-671 Paul Thompson Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:29:38 +0000 http://www.bloglanta.com/archives/195#comment-671 As a huge NCAA hockey fan, I have to say you are off base with the Frozen Four request for Atlanta. It needs to be in a town where the bars will actually play games when they're on (I think we only get the Frozen Four all year long in Atlanta), and the local Fox Sports affiliate tracks it. Some cities just aren't college atmospheres. I've been to Frozen Fours in Columbus OH and St. Paul MN. St. Paul was excellent, Columbus rather lame. The arena district in Columbus was almost unaware of the on-campus event, and I assume Atlanta would be the same..."the Frozen what?" I don't think a Frozen Four with N. Dakota, UNH, Cornell and Colorado College would sell out the Puppetry Arts Center here. And us college hockey diehards don't want the sport to be a cartoon for some other event. NCAA hockey...it's pure, simple, and it should stay that way. As a huge NCAA hockey fan, I have to say you are off base with the Frozen Four request for Atlanta. It needs to be in a town where the bars will actually play games when they’re on (I think we only get the Frozen Four all year long in Atlanta), and the local Fox Sports affiliate tracks it.

Some cities just aren’t college atmospheres. I’ve been to Frozen Fours in Columbus OH and St. Paul MN. St. Paul was excellent, Columbus rather lame. The arena district in Columbus was almost unaware of the on-campus event, and I assume Atlanta would be the same…”the Frozen what?” I don’t think a Frozen Four with N. Dakota, UNH, Cornell and Colorado College would sell out the Puppetry Arts Center here.

And us college hockey diehards don’t want the sport to be a cartoon for some other event. NCAA hockey…it’s pure, simple, and it should stay that way.

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