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This is a strange topic for me to start, since I will only make it to 2 or 3 games this year, but I wanted to start a thread about the Chet and Muffy trend at our home rink, but figured I would create a thread with a more expansive scope. Anyway, I went to the Peter Gabriel show up in TO back in the fall and was struck (dumbfounded) by how passive, quiet, and lame the sold-out house was, as a whole. This was especially jarring after I'd seen footage of the crowds in Quebec from just a few days prior, which were loud and spirited. Fast forward to last night's game, and I was again struck by how lame the TO/Leafs crowd was (for a home opener, no less). Then I saw mentions of it on Twitter, and then the comment in the write-up below. Now, I realize that the Leafs haven't been good for a long time, and that that's part of what is going on. But I also think that what you see in the ACC is symptomatic of a larger trend in professional sports -- you see it at our FNC as well -- I think you even see it at Gillette [sic?] Stadium in Foxboro. It's the Chet and Muffy phenomenon -- as John Lennon once said (paraphrasing): The crowd in the balcony can go ahead and scream, but you down in the front can just rattle your jewelry. Then, in the last two minutes and 33 seconds of the third when the Leafs pulled their goaltender for an extra skater, which finally woke up those left among the slumbering crowd of 19,475, Miller again slammed the door shut on the hosts. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/leafs-beat/miller-shows-value-of-having-elite-player-at-goaltending-position/article7617635/