[NU Sports] Cofield (fwd)

[NEONRye at aol.com]

John:
 
Your stereotypical depiction of NY sports fans is really infuriating.   I 
didn't take Mike's passing comment as offensive, but yours certainly  was.
 
Yes, we do care passionately about our sports teams--most of which are  
professional.  But, just by way of example, the NY Post has a College  
Football/Basketball Columnist, Lenn Robbins, who presents a very good take every  week on 
the College Sports scene.  The NY Daily News also has a similar  column, 
although the name of the writer (Dick somebody) escapes me at the  moment.  So, 
too, does the Times also cover college sports in some  depth.
 
And when the St. John's basketball team or Rutgers football team is doing  
well, the coverage mushrooms.  The entire Metropolitan area has been  buzzing 
about Rutgers for the past week.
 
As for Ray Knight's supposed comment, NY fans have probably forgotten more  
about basketball than fans in almost any part of the country (save, perhaps,  
Indiana) ever knew about the sport.
 
NY fans also are extremely knowledgeable and supportive of such non-team  
sports as tennis, which is why the US Open is so staggeringly  successful.  
 
I could go on (Rangers sellouts; Giants and Jets passion; etc.), but have  
better things to do than counter such vacuous thoughts.  I'm not sure why  you 
decided to pick on NY, but your critique really is without merit and  strongly 
resented at this end.  Somehow whenever you posted controversial  opinions in 
the past with which I strongly disagreed (or otherwise thought were  
off-the-mark), I let them pass.  But this one is just too ridiculous to  ignore.
 
 
Paul Levinson