I felt the need to shake it up after 15 straight Tom Reynolds posts…
Tonight, the Buffalo Sabres open the 2006-2007 season with a game against the Carolina Hurricanes at the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.
For years, Sabres fans have made Toronto Maple Leaf fans their number one enemy.
While I can’t disagree with the idea of ginning up the sports hate machine for a bunch of toque wearing Canadian jackasses who descend upon our city several times each year, the idea is a bit misguided. Why? Because Leaf fans don’t care about the Sabres, or our perceived rivalry with them. Leaf fans are primarily focused on their rivalry with Les Habitants of Montreal and with a blossoming hatred for the Ottawa Senators.
So, without the Leafs, who does that leave for us to hate? The Bruins? The Senators? The Canadiens? The Penguins? The Rangers? I say the answer is none of the above as all of those teams already have natural rivalries based on geographic location and playoff battles over the years.
Public Enemy #1 for the Sabres Fan? Meet the Carolina Hurricanes, the embodiment of all that is evil and wrong in the sports world.
They meet all the requirements as a team that Sabres fans can love to hate. Let’s start with their smug douchebag of a coach, Peter LaViolette.
A Captain who cheats like Dexter Manley on a spelling test, Rod “Shovelface” Brind’Amour.
And a generally undesirable fanbase.
On top of all that, Charlotte, Raleigh, and Durham are where all the people from Amherst are moving to. They’re stealing our people for chrissakes!
I want to see some hostility towards these hockey world interlopers who stole our Stanley Cup. I want to see Kevin from BFLOBlog dress up his kid like this one at the next Sabres/Canes game in Buffalo.
I want a win tonight and I want it bad.
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I was going to mention you have gotten a wee bit too focused on one issue, but you redeemed yourself all on your own.
Because really, hockey vs. sleazy politicians is not much of a debate.
We got your win, geek
BTW, I think Brind’Amour is a cool name.
oops… I meant we got “our” win
Geek,
I know I’m dead to you now, but I have to let you know, this is a great post. I especially like the picture of the “Cane fans family photo. They clean up better than I thought…Brind’Amour, however, does not stand a chance of “Cleaning up”. No hope for him…..
Bills beat the 1990 Giants in December, only to choke to a less talented team in Super Bowl XXV. So what if the Sabres swept the Canes in the 06′-07′ season. Until you win a cup, you ain’t crap. Hope Ted Nolan and the 8th seeded Islanders beat ya WNY punks in round 1. This city is equally cursed between the economy,sports teams, and colored thugs outsmarting city police with many murders unsolved. The armpit of Lake Erie….”Buffalo,NY”.
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