He was talking about the fans who fill the Staples Center's seats when their Kings are ready to take the ice. The passion and excitement which fills the arena is impossible to avert and is noticeably genuine. You couldn't catch a fan texting or talking on the phone if the camera man were running shots of the audience for the duration of the game, as you would on a large scale at a baseball or basketball game. The sport is fast, exciting, hard hitting and just plain entertaining. Or you would think.
With a sport that holds qualities such as these and a fan base who ravages with passion and loyalty, this certain ESPN broadcaster just can't quite put his finger on why that fan base isn't much bigger. He attempts to continually ask himself, and his colleagues on air. He sits there contemplating with himself every piece of reasoning that he could conjure and attempt to put it together like a puzzle.
But there's nothing to contemplate, or put together. You can't make rationale out of emotion. You don't study or learn how to amuse, or entertain yourself, you just do. That's where human diversity becomes a factor and there's nothing you could do about it.
It would be equivalent to a parent who forces their child to play a sport in which he absolutely despises. They might try to sit there and ask the kid 100 questions to get to the bottom of his antipathy. They spend thousands of dollars on psychologists and therapists and still end up popping their head above ground without any answers.
There aren't answers. The people of Los Angeles don't like hockey and it doesn't matter how entertaining and fun it is to watch, or play, we just won't like it. Like I don't like the music you listen to and you don't like mine, or the television shows and movies I like differ from the ones that you like, it's just the way it is.
