It gets worse. Our basketball team sucks. Our greatest moment in that sport was when Vince Carter missed a buzzer beater in Game 7 of the Conference Semi-Finals about 9 years ago. Our baseball team is in the toughest division in all of sports so we can never see a damn playoff game. We don’t have a football team (no the Argonauts don’t count, you imbeciles). As bad as that is, the NFL dangles the Bills in our faces every year as if they’re coming over any time soon. The only taste of a championship we have had since the 1993 World Series win by the Blue Jays has been by the Toronto Argonauts (again the CFL does not count) and the Toronto Rock (our Lacrosse team. Yes you heard that right. We here in Toronto are clinging to Lacrosse for our Sports fanatic needs).

It’s not easy. It’s painful. Year-by-year watching the beloved sports teams of other cities lift that championship trophy in every sport is downright painful.

So at the beginning of this season, I’m coming to you with a request, on behalf of everyone that makes up Leaf Nation. Just make the playoffs. That is all. Give this city SOMETHING to cheer for.

We don’t need a masked, caped superhero to save us. Even 8th seed in the East will do.

Sincerely,

The Average Leaf Fan