Come one come all to the greatest show on earth. Or, so that's how the advertising promoted it.
The Toronto Maple Leafs, the greatest show on earth? At one time this actually applied, the franchise did win Stanley Cups once. But now, riding on the coat tails of 50 something baby boomers, its become the most expensive hockey ticket in the world.
And with that, the most unrealistic venue has been created as a fantasy for all leaf fans. The mere thought of attending a game only crosses the minds of the rich, famous, or corporate.
With such an unattainable dream comes frustration, felt by many leaf fans in the form of... buying more mechandise, whoops I mean paying more for tickets. No, that still can't be right. Maybe it is protest that they turn to - nope still wrong.
"What is fueling the industry leader, Alex". Yup, the fans have turned this mecca of hockey into a private club.
Wait, did he just say the fans did all this? Yes. Question for you the reader, if I offer you 20 dollars for your 20 cent lemonade will you take it? Remember, you are a profit seeking missile aimed straight at climbing the corporate ladder.
Of course you will take it! And so the beat goes on. Well, you say the fans should get a break for having supported the team, for 80 years right? Well, yeah they should. Ok. Let's give them one game for free, but make sure it doesn't count for anything(hence pre-season and against the Sabres). And so the fans first game was created, great, a miracle!
Or so we thought. For anyone who actually went through the motions of going downtown and entering the tailgate party, success! My question is where the heck were all these die hard fans? There was about 1600 people who went to this tailgate party, and of them, nearly all were given tickets to the game.
So to all the people (not calling them fans at this point) that want to complain about expensive tickets, you better have been at this half empty game. Otherwise, your the worst kind of hypocrite money can buy.
Seriously though, who wants to watch a team that has Mikhail Grabovski on the ice for 20 minutes per game, might as well watch the Toronto Marlies for 30 bucks. Where the people watching the game are actually watching the game and not on their BlackBerry proposing the next sale to buy-out your dad's company.
To MLSE I say great job in your efforts, eveyone else would do the same.
2 comments:
seriously, two posts in and you are writing about the maple leaves? i think there's enough coverage out there already. worst. blog. ever.
not sure if you are aware of this little program, but it relates here i think..http://panthersfirsttimer.com/
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