Toronto Mike

I Hate My Favourite Team

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.

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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".

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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.

The Passion That Afflicts Us All

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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