I've come to this simple truth based on every sports blog/tweet/rival fanbase that tell me one of two things about championship caliber teams and their hometown supporters.
1.) If a team does well and attracts new spectators that were not previously devoted to the team, that city is nothing but a bunch of bandwagon fans that blow in the wind.
or
2.) If a team does well, but still fails to sell-out it's arena and/or get massive attention from it's local residents (also known as "bandwagon fans," see above) then that team doesn't deserve to have a professional sports team, because they won't support that team.
Logically, that means the only way for a town to truly deserve to have a team and support them properly is for two things to happen;
1.) That team sucks on a yearly basis.
and
2.) That teams still sells out on a nightly basis, with thousands more clamoring to buy seats.
With these two conditions set, only one sports organization is supported by true, loyalist fans.
The rest of us can go piss off, apparently.
By remembering this little nugget of truth, you can save yourself hours of internet reading time, when your team makes it's playoff run or plans it's championship parade route.
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Leafs fans are the worst in sports. They'll eat whatever shit sandwhich MLSE has fed them (us) over the years and come back for more, no matter the ticket cost because they're blind...err...loyal.
Funny that I read that I literally though "hey, he's talking about Leafs fans!" before the scroll revealed that was indeed the case.
Praying for Balsillie to get a team closer to home so I can be freed of the embarrassment that is being associated with the dumbest fans in sports. That said, Brian Burke is going to get it turned around because he's doing it right.
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