To all who celebrate: Happy Leafs Elimination Day!

[PASabreFan]

Sabres br(ass) love at least three kinds of fans: 1. The believers in youth turning into something in five year plans that would make the Soviet Politburo proud; 2. People who hate Leaf fans so much they buy season tickets in order to sell tickets to Leaf fans; 3. Goalpost movers who are prepared to say gotcha and organize a parade if the Sabres ever just make the playoffs, which was literally never the goal, from Darcy to Kevyn.

Edited 6 hours ago by PASabreFan

[Thorny]

57 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

Sabres br(ass) love at least three kinds of fans: 1. The believers in youth turning into something in five year plans that would make the Soviet Politburo proud; 2. People who hate Leaf fans so much they buy season tickets in order to sell tickets to Leaf fans; 3. Goalpost movers who are prepared to say gotcha and organize a parade if the Sabres ever just make the playoffs, which was literally never the goal, from Darcy to Kevyn.

“What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge goalposts?”

“No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.”

The truth of the matter is there’s a level of Final Boss fan evolved well beyond the matter of simply moving goalposts. They’ve eliminated them entirely: the logic being the rather gaslighting tact of claiming the level of fan satisfaction wouldn’t change regardless of the result, therefore rendering results in effect meaningless. Ie if you can’t be happy with the team as is, you never will anyways. 

 

[SwampD]

13 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

@Thorny quoted me. He completely missed my point but he did quote me.

He didn't miss your point. Like me, he just disagrees with it. The whole, "some fans will just never be happy" is pure BS.

Edited 5 hours ago by SwampD

[PromoTheRobot]

37 minutes ago, SwampD said:

He didn't miss your point. Like me, he just disagrees with it. The whole, "some fans will just never be happy" is pure BS.

Okay, we can disagree. 

[Pimlach]

20 hours ago, Dr. Who said:

Well, that's incorrect. Dislike of the Leafs predates Pegula. A lot of it has to do with Leafs' fans, and some of it has to do with the NHL Official Review in Toronto, and the partisan rooting by ex-players and sense of entitlement. 

My hatred of the Leafs goes to the Sabres first season in 1970.  Start Punch Imlach as our GM and coach, add the close proximity, Toronto was an immediate rival.  

The Sabres won the first ever meeting between the teams,  7-2 in Maple Leaf Garden, and that was the start of it.   I went to the first Leafs game ever in the Aud.  The Sabres lost and I got my first taste of Leafs fans in our building.   The Leafs fans were loud, maybe 20% of the crowd, and that was the start of my anti-Leaf journey.  Fortunately the Sabres quickly past the Leafs as an Eastern Conference contender.  

The league kept expanding and went to 4 divisions.   Toronto moved out of our division, putting them into the weaker Norris division to help them.  It was a move that the Leafs irrepressible owner Harold Ballard favored as it thought it would help them, but it didn't.   That moved failed as Detroit and St Louis and Chicago all got better and Toronto lagged.    As a result the Sabre and Leafs have only played ONE playoff series ever. 

Sabres won that series 4-1 back in 1999.   Amazing to think that or closest rival has only played us once in the playoffs.  That is Sabrey. 

[Weave]

6 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

Sabres br(ass) love at least three kinds of fans: 1. The believers in youth turning into something in five year plans that would make the Soviet Politburo proud; 2. People who hate Leaf fans so much they buy season tickets in order to sell tickets to Leaf fans; 3. Goalpost movers who are prepared to say gotcha and organize a parade if the Sabres ever just make the playoffs, which was literally never the goal, from Darcy to Kevyn.

#2 made me lol. Some of them are active in this thread.