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* There's a number of old-timer fans of Major League Baseball who believe the 1994-95 strike ruined the MLB forever. Even in the aftermath of the strike, fans lashed out against not just the team owners, but the previously-striking players (with stunts such as irate Mets fans wearing T-shirts with "GREED" written on them storming the field and throwing 100s of $1 bills at the players' feet), and some vowed they'd never watch baseball again.
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* There's a number of old-timer fans of Major League Baseball who believe the 1994-95 strike ruined the MLB forever. Even in the aftermath of the strike, fans lashed out against not just the team owners, but the previously-striking players (with stunts such as irate Mets fans wearing T-shirts with "GREED" written on them storming the field and throwing 100s of $1 bills at the players' feet), and some vowed they'd never watch baseball again. A few hockey fans expressed similar sentiments when the entire 2004-05 NHL season was lost to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_NHL_lockout labor dispute]].
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** In response to declining attendance and ratings, along with what's generally agreed to be boring racing by both fans and people within the sport, NASCAR decided to use the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway rather than the oval in 2021. It didn't work, ratings and attendance were even worse (though in fairness the COVID-19 pandemic probably accounts for some of the drop in ticket sales), and there's already talk of moving back to the oval in 2023 if the ratings and attendance for the 2022 running of the race don't improve.[[note]]One thing that won't help those 2022 numbers is the 2021 running being a complete fiasco, with a broken curb in the turn 6 chicane causing a pretty scary 9 car wreck, another multi-car pile-up in the now curb-less corner immediately after the 20 minute red flag to clean up the first wreck, and a finish that saw second place driver Chase Briscoe intentionally spin out leader Kevin Harvick on the second-to-last corner and get disqualified, allowing part time Cup Series driver A.J. Allmendinger to pick up the victory.[[/note]]
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** In response to declining attendance and ratings, along with what's generally agreed to be boring racing by both fans and people within the sport, NASCAR decided to use the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway rather than the oval in 2021. It didn't work, ratings and attendance were even worse (though in fairness the COVID-19 pandemic probably accounts for some of the drop in ticket sales), and there's already talk of moving back to the oval in 2023 if the ratings and attendance for the 2022 running of the race don't improve.[[note]]One thing that won't help those 2022 numbers is the 2021 running being a complete fiasco, with a broken curb in the turn 6 chicane causing a pretty scary 9 car wreck, another multi-car pile-up in the now curb-less corner immediately after the 20 minute red flag to clean up the first wreck, and a finish that saw second place driver Chase Briscoe intentionally spin out leader Kevin Harvick on the second-to-last corner and get disqualified, allowing part time Cup Series driver A.J. Allmendinger to pick up the victory.[[/note]][[/note]] The road course got one last shot in 2023 before being replaced with the oval on the 2024 schedule.
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* The [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Montreal Expos]] moved to Washington D.C. to become the Washington Nationals? [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]][[GratuitousFrench OOOONNN!!!]]
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* The [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Montreal Expos]] moved to Washington D.C. to become the Washington Nationals? [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]][[GratuitousFrench OOOONNN!!!]]
