For those of you who follow the National Hockey League, you may notice that the Toronto Maple Leafs are in second-last in the Eastern Conference. This, combined with humiliating losses to LA (last in the West) and San Jose have all but cemented my grief.
Buffalo Bills fans should be sympathetic to my plight, as the two teams' plights are similar. We haven't won a Stanley Cup SINCE 1967, and I doubt I'll see the Leafs win one before I die. AND I'M SEVENTEEN.
So, you ask, why do I continue to support the Laughing-stocks...er, Leafs? Ah, you just made your point: I am a FAN, not a SUPPORTER. I do not like what head coach Paul Maurice is doing with his lines, or John Ferguson Jr. making ludicriously large contracts for players who either
score on their own net or
sit around waiting for the other team to take the puck from them. Not since the days of Ebenezer Scrooge himself, Harold Ballard, have we seen a Leaf team this half-baked. But I digress.
Even with the pathetic managerial issues, I still cheer for the Leafs, hoping faintly that somehow, SOMETHING's gotta give. With a recent team photo session canceled, I can only hope that the Leafs are rebuilding their head office - now maybe they'll do something about the guys who actually skate.
