THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1978
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ne in their franchise unless they
t tel'i in j 1 ^>000 season tickets. At this
look
time, the Aeros have sold over 4,200
with two weeks left before their
deadline.
The question is, can Houston
support professional hockey along
with four other professional sports?
The Aeros are the winningest
Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley
No-hitter in progress
Jexas A&M’s Mark Thurmond, one of the country’s premier
pitchers, is shown here working on the no-hitter he pitched in
Saturday’s game against Texas Tech. The Aggies travel to
Arkansas this weekend to decide the conference cham
pionship.
ilers get
irst round
hoice
United Press International
The Houston Oilers Monday
led starting tight end Jimmy
les and four draft choices for the
jipa Bay Buccaneers’ No. 1 draft
lee and the right to Heisman
phy winner Earl Campbell,
filers general manager and coach
A “Bum” Phillips said he had
In working on the deal for a
Ik, ever since Tampa Bay told
m it wanted Giles.
|ampa Bay owned the No. 1
ce in the NFL’s draft of college
ers next week. The Buccaneers,
aleady have former USC run-
bbacks Anthony Davis and Ricky
ell. did not need another,
ouston gave up its first and sec-
round draft choices in the up-
ing draft and the third and fifth
|nd choices in the 1979 draft.
'he draft is May 5.
Several teams had expressed
jtfrest in obtaining the top draft
|ice in order to choose Campbell,
J-pound tailback from the Uni-
|sity of Texas.
hillips was asked at an afternoon
7S conference how long he ex-
ted it to take for Campbell to
itribute:
About a day or so; as soon as we
[d him the ball the first time,”
hips said.
team the city of Houston has had.
The franchise has been in Houston
for six years and has made the WHA
playoffs all six years. It has won its
division four times, and the AVCO
Cup, which is the equivalent to the
Stanley Cup in the National Hockey
League, two years.
If part of the answer is winning,
the Aeros surely have done enough
to draw the crowds. Attendance has
dropped since the 1975-76 season.
The Aeros sold 6,098 season tickets
in ’75 and averaged 9,500 a game,
while in 1977-78, the Aeros sold
only 3,200 season tickets and aver
age attendance was 7,300.
The drop in attendance can be at
tributed to one main source, the
Houston Rockets. The Rockets,
Houston’s pro basketball team, has
increased attendance since 1976.
The Rockets share the Summit and
part of the season with the Aeros.
Subsequently, most fans cannot af
ford to go to both hockey and bas
ketball games. So fans choose the
more familiar sport — basketball.
The Rockets made it to the
playoffs in 1977 but the Aeros are in
the WHA playoffs after overcoming
many major problems. Early in the
season, the team had a change in
ownership which left the team’s fu
ture in jeopardy temporarily.
In these days of high priced
j athletes, the Aeros went through a
period where they did not receive
|any pay, yet kept on winning. Truly
a rare bunch.
So what is the answer? The own
ers seem to think the magic word is
the NHL. But even if the Aeros sell
17,000 season tickets, they are not
guaranteed a spot in the coveted
NHL.
Spurs need
win tonight
to stay alive
United Press International
Look for San Antonio to pull out
all the stops tonight against Wash
ington in the Spurs’ desperate fight
for survival in the NBA playoffs.
One more loss and the spurs are 1
out, and Coach Doug Moe showed a
hint of his desperation Sunday when
the NBA s most running and gun
ning offense was abandoned in favor
of the slow-down pattern offense.
However, the Spurs lost the game
98-95 anyway and Washington took
a 3-1 advantage into Tuesday night’s
game in Hemisphere Arena.
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The Houston sports fan is faced
with the problem of having to
choose which team he will support.
In one year a fan can watch the
Aeros, the Rockets, the Astros, the
Oilers and the most recent addition
to the Houston sports scene, the
Hurricane. From January until
March, a fan can see the Rockets
play basketaball, the Aeros hockey,
and the Hurricane play indoor soc
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the Summit.
The Aeros are spending lots of
money trying to sell season tickets
and it looks like the person who
buys the tickets is paying for the ad
vertising. The season ticket prices
have not only gone up, but the sea
son ticket holder gets no discount
from the regular ticket price. The
Aeros used to have redemption
night for unused tickets but will no
longer have it. Plus the fact that sea
son ticket holders pay full price for
such things as family discount nights
where tickets are cheaper, seems to
make the season ticket idea self
destructive.
It would appear that the Houston
fans are not truly concerned with
having a winning team, as their at
tendance patterns seem to indicate.
They continue going to watch the
Oilers come close, the Rockets get
beat up, the Hurricane get blown
out and the Astros take third once
again.
But then, how can a person really
get into hockey in the winter when
it’s 75 degrees and all he ever heard
of when he was growing up was
football.
Quarterback keeper
Battalion photo by Pat
Quarterback David Beal options to keep the
ball in Saturday’s Maroon and White game.
Beal gained 16 yards for the Maroons
completed 4 of 10 passes for 48 yards.
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