Comment 76246

By theOther (registered) | Posted April 25, 2012 at 19:43:34 in reply to Comment 76230

Remember the line from the film 'Usual Suspects'(although I paraphrase): "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"? My feeling is that Bob Young's aw-shucks Gomer Pyle act represents a similar phenomenon right here in Ham-town. As a (now-former) season-ticket holder, I sure bought it for a couple of years. But it's over now, and will be until he locates the next sucker to hold the bag for a while. My taxes (yeah, I pay to Ontario too) are going to backstop his liabilites even further now? Somebody make it stop, please. The fact is, the organization had nowhere else to go when Young's designated black hat, Mr. Mitchell, pressed his non-existent advantage. Yet the cowards we insist on re-electing caved anyway. As someone who loves the game of football in most of its iterations, I'm thinking we might have been better off to let them go to Moncton, for example, which the league has (mysteriously)chosen to eschew for the coming year. Or Ottawa, where they continue to fail to re-launch; or Quebec, which may actually be a prospect in the next 10 years; or Windsor, where ... no that's not happening either. .... and then faced a future without the burden of a minor-league sports team anchor pretending it is the only channel through which we present ourselves to the world.

Comment edited by theOther on 2012-04-25 19:44:55

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