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Down On The Leafs
by Paul on 10/15/08 at 09:44 AM ET
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from Ian Winwood of the Guardian,
The part of me that wants to get this column written so that I can go to bed is tempted to say it would be good for hockey were the team to once more find their mojo. But I’m not sure this is at all true; in fact, I’m not sure that it would be good for anyone other than Toronto were Toronto to once more find their mojo. The NHL needs the Maple Leafs, but it needs the Los Angeles Kings and the New York Islanders too; it doesn’t need them to be successful, it just needs them to be.
If it sounds like I have a downer on the Leafs then, well, that might be true. But perhaps it would be truer to say I have a downer on the element of their fanbase that believes that success is a divine right and that can neither accept nor understand the fact that this ain’t necessarily so.
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Wow, the guy hates Leaf fans that think “that success is a divine right and that can neither accept nor understand the fact that this ain’t necessarily so”.
I’m sure when I click “more” to read the rest of the article, he’ll cite plenty of examples and quotes to support this point.
Hm, I guess the editor cut that part out. Either that, or we have yet another sportswriter who’s attributing viewpoints to Leaf fans that they don’t actually hold, because it makes for an easy article. This guy could take Cox’s job if he’s not careful.
Posted by Down Goes Brown from Ottawa on 10/15/08 at 01:35 PM ET