Toronto is an awful city

[Gugny]

Here's my take:  When Durant went down, many people in the crowd instinctively celebrated that, although it was something bad, something happened that was going to benefit the Raptors.

 

I noticed that the vast majority of the crowd tempered their emotions almost immediately; they also respectfully clapped for Durant as he was helped off the court.

 

Let's not sit here and say that last night's crowd in Toronto is comparable to any Philly crowd.  Not even close.

 

I really just think it happened very quickly, instincts took over and behavior was almost immediately corrected.

 

P.S. - Get over the Bills "almost going to Toronto."  Yesterday's news, which I'm personally tired of hearing about.  It's over.  Move on.

[Royale with Cheese]

I cannot believe how upset this is making you.

The crowd that was there was .00000001 percent of the city.  You don’t paint the entire city with the same paintbrush.

 

BTW...I was at the Bills/Cardinals game where Trent Edwards got knocked out.  The section I was in was making fun of Edwards for being lifeless on the ground.

They were yelling “is he dead??”; “where’s the sniper located??”; “someone get the chalk outline!” Etc...

[ExiledInIllinois]

Basketball is a classless game.  Why do you think they call basketball players:

 

"Cagers"

 

It's part of the game, not an indictment of a city.  It ain't golf.

 

Sheesh...

[YoloinOhio]

7 hours ago, Ol Dirty B said:

 

Guy tore his Achilles. The GM is in tears right now. 

 

But I'm the one off base here. All of you giving a pass on cheering an injury is ***** horrible.

 

Yea you were a 1000% wrong. The president of basketball operation is in tears talking about maybe a torn achilles.

 

Cheer on you trash bags in Toronto, and the defenders of that too.

 

I don’t see much of that. Cheering an injury is classless.  I just don’t get the thread title. You have a small subset of a huge city at the game in the first place and then an even smaller subset of the fans at the game who cheered. How, again, is Toronto an awful city?

[teef]

if this is a sports thing i get it, but the city itself is awesome.  

[PromoTheRobot]

9 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

I love that city 

 

classless reaction by their fans but it doesn’t define the city. There are a lot of fan bases that have and would do the same. Just sports and alcohol and a championship on the line. i wouldn’t do it but I won’t let it change how I view Toronto. 

 

How would we react if it were Tom Brady?

[Teddy KGB]

40 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Basketball is a classless game.  Why do you think they call basketball players:

 

"Cagers"

 

It's part of the game, not an indictment of a city.  It ain't golf.

 

Sheesh...

 

What ^^     Take it easy with the 70’s references ???

 

And Toronto is awesome.     I hope Ol Dirty can rebound from this devastating event 

Edited June 11, 2019 by Teddy KGB

[K-9]

Cheering an injury of an opposing player is wrong. Period. If anyone in this forum doesn’t understand that, they’re a clueless ass.

 

Toronto is one of the great cities of the world. Period. 

 

The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. 

[Just Joshin']

Cheering for an injury is not right.

 

You can not hold city accountable for a few bad fans in a championship game when emotions run high.  Are the Bills fans branded because one idiot fell from the upper deck?

[Q-baby!]

Get off your high horse princess. He came back too early and now has to pay the price. Toronto is still a great city. Good luck to your warriors. 

48 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

How would we react if it were Tom Brady?

I remember the Brady broke his leg chant and he wasn’t even playing in Buffalo at the time. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

47 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said:

 

What ^^     Take it easy with the 70’s references ???

 

And Toronto is awesome.     I hope Ol Dirty can rebound from this devastating event 

70s... Like pre-1940s....

[wagon127]

8 hours ago, Ol Dirty B said:

 

Yea you were a 1000% wrong. The president of basketball operation is in tears talking about maybe a torn achilles.

 

Cheer on you trash bags in Toronto, and the defenders of that too.

 

I am not a defender of what Toronto did.  I know how crowds work. You are living in a dream world where you really think Buffalo, and other cities, wouldn't have a few fans that in the heat of the moment, don't accidently cheer a superstar get injured in a major game.  Hopefully after sleeping you have cooled down a bit.

[meazza]

The OP is an awful person.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

8 hours ago, Ol Dirty B said:

 

No but your ma did.

 

Tell the handsy old bag to lay off.

 

My Mom was cheering for the KD injury for at least 15 minutes.  Was it before or after that?

[Q-baby!]

10 minutes ago, meazza said:

The OP is an awful person.

What city is she from? Just want to know what city I hate. 

[meazza]

4 minutes ago, Q-baby! said:

What city is she from? Just want to know what city I hate. 

 

Probably somewhere old and dirty.

[LewPort71]

7 hours ago, bbb said:

 

I do remember being at the 2008 opener and word was getting around that Brady had blown out his ACL..............And, people would cheer when they heard it.  

 

Might be different if he was on the field. 

 

 

I was at the home opener against Seattle in 2008  also and when the news of Brady's injury spread around the Ralph the reaction of the Bills fans was pure happiness.  

[row_33]

50 minutes ago, wagon127 said:

I am not a defender of what Toronto did.  I know how crowds work. You are living in a dream world where you really think Buffalo, and other cities, wouldn't have a few fans that in the heat of the moment, don't accidently cheer a superstar get injured in a major game.  Hopefully after sleeping you have cooled down a bit.

 

 

Actual Bills and football fans are at the game.

 

[Q-baby!]

52 minutes ago, LewPort71 said:

 

I was at the home opener against Seattle in 2008  also and when the news of Brady's injury spread around the Ralph the reaction of the Bills fans was pure happiness.  

Yep, that’s the game I mentioned earlier. In my section the chant was “Brady broke his leg! Brady broke his leg.” Not just a couple of people either. 

[eball]

My takeaway from all of this is that Kyle Lowry is a pretty solid dude.  First, he handled himself extremely well after the shoving incident at GS.  Then, he implored the crowd last night not to cheer Durant's injury.

 

Just a good guy.

[thenorthremembers]

I expected this thread to be about homelessness and schizophrenia.   Instead, just a basketball game.   

 

Toronto's problems are way beyond cheering injuries.

[CoachT]

keep in mind Raps just stole the ball and scored a basket which was part of the cheering .. I'm sure a few idiots were happy to see him hurt but not majority

10 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:

I expected this thread to be about homelessness and schizophrenia.   Instead, just a basketball game.   

 

Toronto's problems are way beyond cheering injuries.

lol what are you talking about? I live 30 min away from Toronto

[row_33]

32 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:

I expected this thread to be about homelessness and schizophrenia.   Instead, just a basketball game.   

 

Toronto's problems are way beyond cheering injuries.

 

the saddest beta cucks in my life are strutting around like they are playing the game

 

i know their type, they would have offered me a ******** after I scored 20 in high school and university games

 

i don't understand how putatively intelligent people lose it over this, this is no more reality than watching Game of Thrones or listening to the White Album.

 

 

Edited June 11, 2019 by row_33

[thenorthremembers]

34 minutes ago, CoachT said:

keep in mind Raps just stole the ball and scored a basket which was part of the cheering .. I'm sure a few idiots were happy to see him hurt but not majority

lol what are you talking about? I live 30 min away from Toronto

I am talking about the homeless rate in Toronto, on par with cities like Chicago.   

[CoachT]

4 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:

I am talking about the homeless rate in Toronto, on par with cities like Chicago.   

The population for Chicago and Toronto itself might be comparable. But Toronto has a massive surrounding urban area (GTA) which might technically be different municipalities, but is basically the same city.  If you want to understand Torontos homeless situation you have to consider all of the GTA. We have our issues but it's nothing like what I'm reading about some American cities today.

[Gordio]

2 hours ago, LewPort71 said:

 

I was at the home opener against Seattle in 2008  also and when the news of Brady's injury spread around the Ralph the reaction of the Bills fans was pure happiness.  

 

 

Haha, I remember that day.  I was in the bathroom at the Ralph when the news broke out about Brady.  The whole bathroom erupted like we won the super bowl.  As I recall, I was one of the guys leading the cheers.  

[BarleyNY]

8 minutes ago, CoachT said:

The population for Chicago and Toronto itself might be comparable. But Toronto has a massive surrounding urban area (GTA) which might technically be different municipalities, but is basically the same city.  If you want to understand Torontos homeless situation you have to consider all of the GTA. We have our issues but it's nothing like what I'm reading about some American cities today.

 

I can’t speak to the homelessness issue, but Chicago’s total metro area population is about 50% larger than Toronto’s.  9.5M to about 6.2M. 

[CoachT]

10 minutes ago, BarleyNY said:

 

I can’t speak to the homelessness issue, but Chicago’s total metro area population is about 50% larger than Toronto’s.  9.5M to about 6.2M. 

take a look at google earth .. GTA is insanely big and populated. There is a reason the widest and one of the busiest highways is here (401).

[apuszczalowski]

Maybe Bills fans should be offering to help Toronto fans with this?

 

So it's deplorable to cheer when another teams player is injured in the game, but it's ok to start chants and cheer when the player is not an opponent that day and is Brady

 

Beers should not be thrown into the field or playing surface after a bad call is made in a heated playoff game. Fans should only throw 'adult toys' on the field during regular season games after a regular play has completed

 

 

Fans of all teams have idiots who give the franchises 'black eyes' for a few days because of dumb things they do (usually after spending the entire game drinking). It gets even worse in the playoffs and championship. In GS one of their investors/owners shoved a Raptors player when he ended up falling into the crowd.

[4merper4mer]

2 hours ago, CoachT said:

keep in mind Raps just stole the ball and scored a basket which was part of the cheering .. I'm sure a few idiots were happy to see him hurt but not majority

lol what are you talking about? I live 30 min away from Toronto

At first I was inclined to think that but the cheering went on for far far to long to think that.  There was plenty of time for anyone with a functioning brain to process what had happened long before the cheering stopped. Even if you account for the slower Canadian processing there was still time.

[GoBills808]

https://streamable.com/y162d

 

Raps fans outside JP after injury...Cousins confirmed fans inside building behaving similarly. Bad look.

[Jauronimo]

I'm still surprised at the behavior of Raptors fans.  I have been to several major sporting events in Toronto over the years and I remember a mostly quiet and indifferent crowd.  I don't remember any such behavior when Fitzpatrick got his chest caved in by London Fletcher.  No one in Rogers Centre seemed happy when Stevie's hands broke and he put it on the ground against ATL.  In fact, throughout the entire Toronto series I don't recall any cheering at all.

[Q-baby!]

16 minutes ago, Jauronimo said:

I'm still surprised at the behavior of Raptors fans.  I have been to several major sporting events in Toronto over the years and I remember a mostly quiet and indifferent crowd.  I don't remember any such behavior when Fitzpatrick got his chest caved in by London Fletcher.  No one in Rogers Centre seemed happy when Stevie's hands broke and he put it on the ground against ATL.  In fact, throughout the entire Toronto series I don't recall any cheering at all.

There wasn't a team from Toronto in those games. No one cared.

[Jauronimo]

4 minutes ago, Q-baby! said:

There wasn't a team from Toronto in those games. No one cared.

What?  Explain.

[Q-baby!]

4 minutes ago, Jauronimo said:

What?  Explain.

The Buffalo Bills!

[Misterbluesky]

6 hours ago, meazza said:

 

Probably somewhere old and dirty.

Did you know Anthony Bourdain's favorite place to spend time in...was Montreal?He took some chefs under his wing up there and made them known to the world..

Seattle...took the shotgun ride in his mind.

 

[Ol Dirty B]

10 hours ago, May Day 10 said:

I have no problem with it.  If i was in attendance for a potential Sabres cup clinching game, and a star player (who team x is having trouble performing without) goes down... my first reaction is cheering.  

 

Well your name shows you're a clown. 

 

Hockey fans are Neanderthals. 

 

I'll give you bonus points if you actually know the correct pronunciation of the word.

6 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

the saddest beta cucks in my life are strutting around like they are playing the game

 

i know their type, they would have offered me a ******** after I scored 20 in high school and university games

 

i don't understand how putatively intelligent people lose it over this, this is no more reality than watching Game of Thrones or listening to the White Album.

 

 

 

What the ***** is this gibberish? 

6 hours ago, CoachT said:

keep in mind Raps just stole the ball and scored a basket which was part of the cheering .. I'm sure a few idiots were happy to see him hurt but not majority

lol what are you talking about? I live 30 min away from Toronto

 

That wasn't what happened at all. Raptors fans are trying to pass that off as an excuse. They were cheering well after the whistle.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

18 hours ago, Jauronimo said:

Buffalo fans would never do anything classless, thats for sure.

 

Jauronimo always ready with a tactical nuke of a post. Just sitting there with a finger on the button.

 

 

[Q-baby!]

50 minutes ago, Ol Dirty B said:

 

Well your name shows you're a clown. 

 

Hockey fans are Neanderthals. 

 

I'll give you bonus points if you actually know the correct pronunciation of the word.

 

What the ***** is this gibberish? 

 

That wasn't what happened at all. Raptors fans are trying to pass that off as an excuse. They were cheering well after the whistle.

Interesting!

[MarkAF43]

This thread is exhibits A-Z about emotional rankings after a Bills game that I cannot stand.