The crowd at Madison Square Garden has always appreciated teams that work hard.
"We stand behind our bakery team member, who is part of the LGBTQ community, and we appreciate the team members and shoppers who recognize that this claim is completely false and directly contradicts Whole Foods Market's inclusive culture, which celebrates diversity," the statement continued.
Knicks fans took pride in believing they had the basketball smarts to appreciate disciplined team play.
Ryan added that the fans appreciate his team and all it has accomplished, and he could sense the excitement in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
When you're away from the game for just about the entire season, you appreciate your team and everything you have even more.
While the headlines will be Giroud's, he will be the first to appreciate the team effort that saved Arsenal's Champions League campaign.
His sudden elevation from second-rate status makes him appreciate his team's place in the Bay Area baseball hierarchy, today's heroics notwithstanding.
They date their devotion to the Rangers in decades, not years, consider their seatmates an extended family and appreciate the team's recent success, partly because they endured the down years.
In his comments immediately after the game, Connecticut's coach, Geno Auriemma, smiled, praised the Stanford women and said he would probably appreciate his team's run all the more now that it had ended.
The phrase "out with the old and in with the new" is most fitting in the modern game of soccer, but it underlines the need to stop and appreciate a team we enjoy before the nature of the sport has its way with it.
