{"id":3817,"date":"2016-06-15T00:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T05:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2016-06-15T00:54:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T05:54:32","slug":"naked-lunatic-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/06\/15\/naked-lunatic-greed\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked Lunatic Greed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many news outlets are reporting on the National Hockey League’s plan to expand. Here’s ABC News<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The NHL is ready to roll the dice on Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

A person with direct knowledge of the NHL’s decision says the league has settled on Las Vegas as the home for its next expansion franchise, provided organizers can come up with a $500 million fee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right. $500,000,000 to start a new franchise in what is arguably a struggling sport. Consider: the State of Hockey, Minnesota itself, is losing high school teams, as reported<\/a> by CBS local station\u00a0WCCO<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

State-wide, participation in boys hockey is down 12 percent from where it was 10 years ago. Girls hockey is down 7 percent. Over that same period of time, total participation in Minnesota high school sports is up.<\/p>\n

That means the kids aren\u2019t leaving sports. They\u2019re just leaving hockey.<\/p>\n

In a state where the sport is so important to our identity \u2013 what high school football is to Texas, and high school basketball is to Indiana \u2013 it begs the question: Can we still call\ufffc Minnesota the State of Hockey?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps I’m just a little old, but this sounds insane. Of course, they may just be taking advantage of a businessman’s pecadillo. But if they truly expect to make that much money from every expansion, they’d better be able to show incredible potential viewership numbers. And maybe have a plan for that little windfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many news outlets are reporting on the National Hockey League’s plan to expand. Here’s ABC News: The NHL is ready to roll the dice on Las Vegas. A person with direct knowledge of the NHL’s decision says the league has settled on Las Vegas as the home for its next \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}