Wizards just re-locate to Connecticut

The same team winning or losing by 25 would change that rating from game to game to game. What does describing atmosphere this way give me, their reader, that I don’t know already?

There definitely are differences in how teams present themselves that are independent of record and number of fans. Does the PA announcer play things cool, or does he (she? are there any shes in the league?) do up the whole “DEEEE-TROOOOIT BASS-ketball!” thing? Is the PA system in the arena attempting to drum up “DEE-FENSE!” with lame overamped things? How good are the various ways of displaying stats during the game, and is the scoreboard awesome, and how about the pre-game intros thing? And so on.

I’d much rather see a detailed description of that sort of stuff than learn from our reviewer that losing teams don’t draw. We all sorta anticipated that.

If you’re talking fans, maybe the stalwarts who’ve always been there could be part of a review. The virtuosic heckler behind the visiting bench who used to be a Sacramento institution, for example. (And yeah, maybe if fans of the other team got “beat down” that would get mentioned, ‘cause as a potential fan I need to know. It’d hardly be a positive part of the review, though. Keep that stuff in Philly.)

Scroll up and look at the NHL reviews. The only thing that wasn’t given a good rating was the access part. I think the Wizards got a 22 score and the Caps got a 32 score being in the same building…CRAZY!