I don’t know if you knew, but there are videos on the Internet! I had to do some serious hacking, but I finally figured out how to post them here on this Website on the Internet!
Example:
The Toronto Maple Leafs are a laughingstock. Actually, that’s being kind. They’re worse than that: they’re a hated laughingstock. It’s true, all you need to do is mention to someone from anywhere in Canada (and maybe a couple of places in the US) that you’re a Leafs fan — or a member of the ‘Leafs Nation’ as MLSE likes to put it — then sit back and listen to the laughter.
Telling people that you know the Leafs suck doesn’t work either, because they won’t believe you. Let me demonstrate:
LEAFS FAN: “I’m a Leafs fan”
HATER: “The Leafs fucking suck”
LEAFS FAN: “Yeah, I know”
HATER: “They’ve always sucked – that’s their thing”
LEAFS FAN: “I admit, they have been pretty shit the last few years”
HATER: “No, always. And they suck now”
LEAFS FAN: “I know, but at least it looks like they’re trying to rebuild”
HATER: “No man, I’m telling you, they suck”
LEAFS FAN: “I know, I know”
HATER: “Bullshit, they suck”
Notice there was no attempt to call up the glory days of the fifties, nor should there have been. Do that and you’ll get shit all over by whoever you’re talking to.
It isn’t all bad news however. To our credit, we’re no longer delusional about the Team. I’m pretty sure a season of watching Jason Allison and Eric Lindros – announced as our saviours – trying to make it in the ‘new NHL’ would be enough to wake up even the most hardcore Leafs optimist. For the first time in a long time the problem with Leafs fans isn’t the unrealistic expectations we as fans place upon this team. No, we know they suck; the problem is the rest of the league doesn’t believe us.
And sports from people who don’t watch sports. This is what I’m thinking. Game recaps? Yeah, maybe every now and then there will be a recap if I feel I need to point something out. Mostly I think I’ll be writing about whatever I think of that day. For instance I could write a little bit right now…
…about how tall and lanky Hasheem Thabeet – the 7′4″ center on UCONN – is, and how generally bad most NCAA players are at the free-throw line. You can really tell who will cut it in the NBA by watching them take free-throws. Back to Thabeet though. Joey was saying he’s a beast, maybe a little Dwight Howard potential there. I think he’s more of the Mutombo type. Still, he’ll be a top ten pick for sure, and will probably average more than a block and a half over his career. And 7′4″ strikes me as a strange height. You don’t really see that too often. Guys are usually either 7, 7′2″, or 7′7″. Rarely is someone listed as 7′4″. NBA heights are mostly bullshit anyway.
There will be non-sports stuff too. Plenty off it, I hope. Music, books, and maybe even politics cross my mind sometimes. Usually these things get mixed in with sports or something stupid, but that shouldn’t stop me. The key will be sports however, and trying to make the issues within them interesting to the dumb and non-sporty.
Sports.
