Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Toronto Maple Laughs
My 30th favourite team in the National Hockey League is the Toronto Maple Leafs.
If there were 31 teams then thats where the Leafs would be. It's not so much the players, they're probably all pretty good guys but it's more the media that go on and on about the Leafs like they are the best thing on ice. I realize that Toronto is the center of the universe and all that. All you have to do is watch the weather network and all you hear is ten minutes of Toronto suffering through a little snowfall and then the announcer will say, "On the Prairies today, its cold. You know the Prairies extend from Thunder Bay to the Rocky Mountains. It can be freezing cold in Winnipeg and mild in Calgary but as far as the weather network is concerned it's just cold on the Prairies. But I digress, back to the Leafs, I mean they haven't won a Stanley Cup championship since 1967. Talk about a run of futility. Only the Saskatoon Blades have a worse record in sports. The Blades have never won a championship in their history while little centers like Prince Albert and Swift Current have.
But back to the Maple Laughs. One of my favourite books, one Tim gave me for Christmas a couple of years back is entitled "Why The Leafs Suck". The author attempts to explain the Leafs futility and what can be done about. Obviously none of the authors ideas have worked or have been used. So today I came across a cute cartoon about the Maple Leafs that I just had to post here. The last time I wrote on my blog about my least favourite team, the Maple Leafs, someone sent me a Leaf key chain. Who knows what I might get this time.
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