I Hate My Favourite Team
Published by Toronto Mike on January 28, 2010 @ 21:22 in Toronto Maple Leafs
I thought I hit the bottom last October. I had just come to the realization that my five and a half year old daughter had not been alive for a single Leafs playoff game. We Leaf fans are enduring an unprecedented streak of failure for a team that hasn't won the Stanley Cup in 42 years.
Four months later, it's gotten worse. For the first time since I discovered the team in the early 80s, I hate my Maple Leafs. We've been this bad before, we've even been worse, but as a wise man once tweeted, the 2009-10 Toronto Maple Leafs "have no redeeming qualities whatsoever".
It's okay hating your favourite team. I feel I've earned the right. After 30 years of investing blood, sweat and tears, I know I deserve better. And in lieu of better, I'm going to do what feels natural, and that means hating this hateful, brutal team.
I knew we found a new bottom when I got free tickets to next Tuesday nights game at the ACC and I didn't feel the excitement I've felt every time prior. I'm not even looking forward to watching my team live and that scares saddens me.
It's bad, folks. I hate my favourite team. I can't stop watching them, or reading about them, or writing about them, but I sure as hell can hate them. And I do.
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dale
January 28, 2010 / 21:42
I've been given freeby tik's also a few times & always give them to others. Just ain't worth it.
If UFA's leave, next year will be worse. No 1st round draft choices next 2 years.
This team is worse than last year & next year will be even worse than this year!!!!!
At least I saw the parade in 1967 with KEON holding the cup.