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11-15-2008, 12:22 AM
Caps Owner Ted Leonsis Takes on ESPN's Bill Simmons (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2008/11/14/caps-owner-takes-on-bill-simmons/)
Posted Nov 14th 2008 4:05PM by Eric McErlain (http://www.fanhouse.com/bloggers/eric-mcerlain/) (author feed (http://www.fanhouse.com/bloggers/eric-mcerlain/rss.xml))
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http://www.blogcdn.com/nhl.fanhouse.com/media/2008/11/ted-leonsis-111408.jpgBack in the early days of NHL FanHouse, we had some fun when Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/tag/TedLeonsis/) engaged in a very brief but public feud with local sports radio personality Steve Czaban (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2007/08/17/ted-leonsis-takes-on-sports-talk-radio/). While others might have thought it silly, I thought it was a lot of fun to watch in an "everybody wins, nobody gets hurt," sort of way.
My only regret is that nobody unleashed any insults along the lines of Mark Crawford's crack about Scotty Bowman and the steel plate in his head (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzdgQsgTPhA). Now I would have paid to hear something like that.
Well, Leonsis has gotten his Irish up again -- I know he's of Greek descent, but stick with me here -- and this time the object of his ire is ESPN's own Bill Simmons. The trouble started when Simmons fielded a question in his Sports Guy column (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/081113) from a reader who was astonished that the Washington Mystics had raised not one, not two, but three banners to the rafters of Verizon Center touting their league-leading attendance (1998, 1999 and 2002).
It was the following answer that drove Leonsis to the keyboard:
I don't consider those three WNBA attendance titles valid because half of those crowds were made up of Pittsburgh Steelers fans. But I mentioned your e-mail to my buddy House (a D.C. fan and resident) and he shamefully passed this tidbit along: Apparently last month during a Capitals game, the Caps raised a banner to commemorate their 2007-08 Southeast Division title.
Continue Reading Caps Owner Ted Leonsis Takes on ESPN's Bill Simmons (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2008/11/14/caps-owner-takes-on-bill-simmons/#cont)
Posted Nov 14th 2008 4:05PM by Eric McErlain (http://www.fanhouse.com/bloggers/eric-mcerlain/) (author feed (http://www.fanhouse.com/bloggers/eric-mcerlain/rss.xml))
Filed under: Capitals (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/team/capitals/), NHL Economics (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/team/nhl-economics/), NHL Fans (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/team/nhl-fans/), NHL Media Watch (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/team/nhl-media-watch/)
(http://nhl.fanhouse.com/team/nhl-media-watch/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/nhl.fanhouse.com/media/2008/11/ted-leonsis-111408.jpgBack in the early days of NHL FanHouse, we had some fun when Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/tag/TedLeonsis/) engaged in a very brief but public feud with local sports radio personality Steve Czaban (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2007/08/17/ted-leonsis-takes-on-sports-talk-radio/). While others might have thought it silly, I thought it was a lot of fun to watch in an "everybody wins, nobody gets hurt," sort of way.
My only regret is that nobody unleashed any insults along the lines of Mark Crawford's crack about Scotty Bowman and the steel plate in his head (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzdgQsgTPhA). Now I would have paid to hear something like that.
Well, Leonsis has gotten his Irish up again -- I know he's of Greek descent, but stick with me here -- and this time the object of his ire is ESPN's own Bill Simmons. The trouble started when Simmons fielded a question in his Sports Guy column (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/081113) from a reader who was astonished that the Washington Mystics had raised not one, not two, but three banners to the rafters of Verizon Center touting their league-leading attendance (1998, 1999 and 2002).
It was the following answer that drove Leonsis to the keyboard:
I don't consider those three WNBA attendance titles valid because half of those crowds were made up of Pittsburgh Steelers fans. But I mentioned your e-mail to my buddy House (a D.C. fan and resident) and he shamefully passed this tidbit along: Apparently last month during a Capitals game, the Caps raised a banner to commemorate their 2007-08 Southeast Division title.
Continue Reading Caps Owner Ted Leonsis Takes on ESPN's Bill Simmons (http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2008/11/14/caps-owner-takes-on-bill-simmons/#cont)