1995 Save the Jets Rally at The Forks - Teemu Selanne

1995/05/16: A last ditch effort, the "Save the Jets" Rally at The Forks drew over 35,000 people. Here are comments from Teemu Selanne.

The "Grassroots Endowment Fund" ultimately exceeded $13 million...

Subsequent to the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWg9fOknKi8

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[jagged22]

They did yesterday......200 People showed up and not a single coyote player!!!

[bobster231]

Our stupid Manitoba politicians couldn't get a new arena built for some reason. That's why our jets left Winnipeg. Susan Thompson (former mayor) is to blame. The government didn't want to put in tax payers money to build a new arena. Our jets should still be in Winnipeg.

[CPOFraser]

JETS ARE COMING HOME

[TheMistermuppet]

@fiXxed98 hard times. i had to take heroin to enjoy that city

[TheMistermuppet]

@UncleStumpy yeah and winnipeg dont give jack fuckin shit. winnipeg is like detroit. a shithole

[UncleStumpy]

@TheMistermuppet you get what you give.

[TheMistermuppet]

@pbollegraf the jets sucked! when you went atleast myself to a jets game,you went to see the other team. go see a game at the bell centre,and you ll see a class oraganization. as well as a good hockey team and passinonate fans. the most passionate in the nhl.

[TheMistermuppet]

@UncleStumpy i think you're thinking of nova scotia,when you say the spirit of the city is kindness and amazing. i grew up in winnipeg. and nova scotia is the only place in canada ive been to personally that has that type of atmosphere. i got a flat tire in dartmouth,nova scotia and i jsut got out of my vehicle and a guy and his son helped me change the tire. that shit dont happen in winnipeg, and ontario,where i am presently. friendly manitoba,what a joke

[UncleStumpy]

@TheMistermuppet Winnipeg's a pretty awesome city...cold in the winter, but the spirit, kindness and genoristy of the city is amazing. Anyone that doesn't like it is pretty weak

[dailybrother]

I love Teemu Selanne. It sucks that the Jets left and they built the MTS centre way too late, but at least it is there now. But if I had to decide between having a team in Quebec or Winnipeg, its Winnipeg in a heartbeat simply because they have an ownership group that is willing to pay with their own money while the other one is unreliable in terms of wanting tax dollars. The only way they can do this is by taking a team like i dunno maybe Florida? cuz Bettman wont give up on Phoenix oddly gl.

[pbollegraf]

@TheMistermuppet im glad you left, your a douche and you belong anywhere except here, and the players are RED HOT not the franchise, when there here they'll be HOTTER, they'll feel better playing in front of 15,000+ fans then just the 4 fans that come to see them now, face it pheonix doesn't give a s##t about hockey, us winnipegers do, compare the rallys, 200 to 40,000............no comparissin.............GO JETS GO

[fiXxed98]

@TheMistermuppet There were no "shootout wins" when the Jets were in Winnipeg, so I guess you're right when you say that they never had a record like the one the 'Yotes have this year! The franchise record the Jets set was for regulation wins. Life in any city is what you make it, so for you to call Winnipeg "god forsaken," I can only assume that you must have fallen on hard times. Or you had someone permanently perched over your Corn Flakes bowl, ready to urinate... Sorry 'bout your damn luck.