Bring Back the Ravens! Do we want them back?
by Marisa Ingemi on Jul 3, 2011 11:00 AM EDT
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The Ravens are coming back to the NLL at some point. NLL commissioner George Daniel has told me this in email and then on Lax Live Radio a couple months back. They are going to be in the NLL in three to five years.
However, to bring the Ravens back is easier said than done. These NLL teams do not have a lot of money to put into the team. Most of the time the profit does not match the deposit, and obvious problem. Teams like Colorado and Buffalo seem to survive this, but not every team can. That is why teams have folded in the last three years, and why expansion is feared.
To devote so much into a team to see it fold after year one is an obvious and huge concern. The NLL does not want to see this anymore. I am one who has always said to focus on the current franchises and promoting them before expanding. That was the NLL's mistake and they seem to have learned from it.
We all call for the Ravens to return to British Columbia, but is it a good thing? Are we sending the NLL on an endless cycle that will eventually kill it?
Expansion is good, in more cases than not. It brings more markets to be interested, and as growing the game enthusiasts, we want that. At the same time, expanding too fast is a bad thing. To put so many assets into the league, they were not getting a profitable return and too many teams were folding. There was no consistency.
The Ravens were a team that did not have to fold. They had a pretty good fan base and with the Stealth in Washington now, bringing the Ravens back would be a great thing. There would be a natural rivalry and that could draw more interest in both clubs. I see no bad in bringing the Ravens back.
Yes, expansion is very bad right now for the NLL I feel. I want them to get these franchises known. When the word "Blazers" is uttered in Boston, I want people to know who they are, and the NLL. Once that happens, I am open to expansion and I want this league to grow to a big one. But too many teams is a bad thing.
The Ravens are not a bad thing. The NLL fans love the Ravens and the people of Vancouver misses them. This should be a fun next three years, as we patiently wait for the return of the Ravens.
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Hells yeah we want the Ravens back
Maybe it’s just cause I lived on the west coast for a long time, and in North Vancouver for 7 years of that time, but I would love to see the Ravens return. Vancouver seems like such a natural spot for an NLL team, especially if they can work out a situation like Calgary now has with the Flames and Roughnecks.
Plus, besides a rivalry with the Stealth, I think it would help Washington’s attendance for games against Vancouver because Ravens fans would travel to Everett for games.
For sure
this is a situation it can’t hurt all too much in. I would love to bring the Ravens back. It would be awesome with the Stealth, Roughnecks and Rush in that division for natural rivals.
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Big improvement in Western Conference
I could see adding the Ravens as really bringing down the travel costs for the Western Conference as a whole and for Minnesota as a team if they got to move into the East.
This would be based on most of the Vancouver players coming from the Lower Mainland area. I follow the Roughnecks and most of their players come from Alberta or the BC area, with a few exceptions, and if they mostly only had to move them around the Seattle, Vancouver, Alberta, Colorado area it would be a major help, instead of having one more road trip back east to Minnesota every year.
Plus, I don’t see how a new team in Vancouver is going to affect brand awareness in other cities. Most lacrosse markets are local, there is not national team brands like the Dallas Cowboys or New York Yankees. If there is another set of jobs for 20 lax players in Vancouver, so long as there is stable ownership that will be a good thing.
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