At least Toronto fans have a lot of experience by now with beloved sports figures departing in an unpleasant and dispiriting way. What’s a massive salary for an aging striker when you have seemingly bottomless oil-driven wealth? Even the exorbitant cable and mobile fees charged by Bell and Rogers aren’t enough for MLSE to compete with that. It will be interesting to see how many fans manage to view them this way. This team was uniquely bad enough for so long that its fans seemed to have unlocked a new level of loyalty.

Source: National Post February 01, 2019 02:15 UTC