It's easy to start feeling sorry for yourself when you're a Leafs fan. Sometimes, when you feel things are at their worst, you need to look on the bright side of life.
ESPN The Magazine had an great little write up by Bill Simmons about the horrible situation in New York with the Knicks. Simmons explains how much worse things are in Buffalo, but Buffalo simply doesn't have enough people who care about them, talk about them or write about them to make this suffering noticeable. Here's an excerpt from the article:
Over the past 40-plus years, no sports city has had it rougher than Buffalo. It doesn't have a baseball team. Its NBA team fled west to become the Clippers -- a double whammy. Its greatest and most famous athlete is O.J. Simpson. It has suffered three of the toughest losses ever, all of which are so infamous they can be described in three words or fewer: "wide right," "no goal" and "Music City Miracle." Its beloved Bills lost four straight Super Bowls and currently have the second-longest NFL playoff drought (eight years and counting; the Cardinals haven't gotten in since '98). Is any under-45 American sports fan more scarred than the one who lives in Buffalo?
Things are bad in Toronto with our Maple Leafs. We haven't won the cup since '67, we endured the Harold Ballard era and now we're run by a multi-headed monster without hope and buried in the cellar. Our best-case scenario is that we trade our best player. Die-hards like me weren't on this planet the last time we won it all but things could be so much worse.
I could live in Buffalo.
