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the Vancouver, BC market (Seahawks jerseys far outsell Canucks jerseys)

Meek
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from today's Vancouver Sun "Vancity Sports owner John Czvelka said Seahawks jerseys outsell Canucks jerseys by a margin of two to one at his downtown Vancouver store

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Vancouver+Seattle+Seahawks+wallop+Canucks+team+jersey+sales/9401451/story.html#ixzz2qj33uonO


DJ once asked me about the market opportunity for Husky interest in Vancouver and it was definitely there while the Huskies were on KOMO4 back in the day, but since Washington football got put on the Fox regionals and then the uber-phantomous Pac12 Network + ESPN and Canada can't get any of those networks, the Huskies access to 3 million Vancouverites has disappeared. Too bad because they love football in Canada.
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  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,499
    If it means more money in Paul Allen's pockets count me in!
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  • TTJ
    TTJ Member Posts: 4,827
    I found a bona fide Husky bar in downtown YVR for the UW-Stanford game in Oct. Place was pretty fun, despite a head-to-head Canucks game.
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  • Meek
    Meek Member Posts: 7,031
    do you recall the bar? i have to go back to Vancouver a couple times a year and when it happens during football season I never know where to go to catch a Husky game.
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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club
    I guess they got tired of the Canucks getting their hopes up only to choke when they got a chance at a title...oh wait
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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    Tons of Husky fans in Vancouver. Awesome city too.
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  • Meek
    Meek Member Posts: 7,031
    PurpleJ said:

    I guess they got tired of the Canucks getting their hopes up only to choke when they got a chance at a title...oh wait

    look, that's an entire PNW thing. the M's are the biggest fucktard champs of all in this camp. Seattle and Vancouver are married as sports loving champion starved cities where top athletes come with huge contracts to get depressed in the clouds and under achieve. The twin depression cities need to make nice and leverage the total population of 6 million or so within 90 minutes of each other and start some winning.
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  • bananasnblondes
    bananasnblondes Member Posts: 15,515
    Don't many people in Vancouver already have Canucks jerseys? I imagine that before this year most did not have Seahawks jerseys so it makes sense that a relatively close team who is doing very well (on the field and marketing-wise) would produce jerseys that outsell the traditional market.

    Also, it has been written that one cannot truly be called a 12 until they own at least 5 jerseys (all in different colors)
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  • Mad_Son
    Mad_Son Member Posts: 10,194
    Meek said:

    Washington football got put on the Fox regionals and then the uber-phantomous Pac12 Network + ESPN and Canada can't get any of those networks

    Canada doesn't have ESPN?
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  • Meek
    Meek Member Posts: 7,031
    Mad_Son said:

    Meek said:

    Washington football got put on the Fox regionals and then the uber-phantomous Pac12 Network + ESPN and Canada can't get any of those networks

    Canada doesn't have ESPN?
    Canada has 2 all sports networks if I recall correctly. Sportsnet and TSN. They get feeds from ESPN for certain games and carry them on those networks but since they're national in scope they never put Pac12 games on there.
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  • HeretoBeatmyChest
    HeretoBeatmyChest Member Posts: 4,295
    I was in Toronto for the Stanford game in 2012 and it wasn't on any channel they had. I'll be in Vancouver during the Hawks game. They love the Seahawks there and treat them as their football team. That was true 3 years ago and more so today.
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  • Meek
    Meek Member Posts: 7,031
    back when the Huskies were on channel 4 every Saturday back in the 80s and early 90s Vancouver also loved the Dawgs... since then, out of sight, out of mind.
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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club
    edited January 2014
    Meek said:

    PurpleJ said:

    I guess they got tired of the Canucks getting their hopes up only to choke when they got a chance at a title...oh wait

    look, that's an entire PNW thing. the M's are the biggest fucktard champs of all in this camp. Seattle and Vancouver are married as sports loving champion starved cities where top athletes come with huge contracts to get depressed in the clouds and under achieve. The twin depression cities need to make nice and leverage the total population of 6 million or so within 90 minutes of each other and start some winning.
    I hate the Canucks. Vancouver can feel free to root for our teams, though.

    And by our teams, I mean Paul Allen's teams.
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  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    Someone should send this thread to Larry Scott, he's a big international thinker
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