This dampened fan enthusiasm and hurt business, so promoters were not too kind to wrestlers who broke kayfabe, often writing them out of important storylines or not using them at all.
Montoya cited fan enthusiasm as a reason for moving to Nascar.
Months before coaching in his first game at Texas, Penders set about reviving fan enthusiasm for Longhorn men's basketball.
The Pirates experienced unprecedented fan enthusiasm with Bonds on the team and set the club attendance record of 52,119 in the 1987 home opener.
He cited XFL ratings for UPN's stations that were higher than the programming that previously ran in that time period, as well as fan enthusiasm in the stadiums.
In response to this, the cast and crew were called back for five additional days to re-shoot some scenes using fan enthusiasm as their guide.
Respectable teams in the Sun Belt might encourage fan enthusiasm and draw interest from networks.
Even when baseball expanded to two divisions per league in 1969, and added division playoffs, old-fashioned races often killed fan enthusiasm by Labor Day.
With strikes in one professional sport after another sapping fan enthusiasm, the same thing happened to trading cards, a business that, with the acquisition of Fleer, contributed about half of Marvel's revenues.
D'Elia, referring to the success of the team and its effect on fan enthusiasm and recruiting, said Paterno should get the credit and added: "We're riding a wave.