Toronto fans...classless?

Question

As a LONG time Sens fan and season ticket holder I will tell you right NOW...I have NEVER seen Ottawa fans behave such as some BS'er stated in an earlier question!! ANY player that has taken a huge hit (legal or not) and is down on the ice and then gets up has always received the utmost respect and applause from the crowd. Whether you like a player or not...what happened in Toronto last night was disgusting. The fans at the ACC should be ashamed! Last night you would have booed Alfreddson off the ice if he had been on a stretcher. That almost made me puke to watch the idiots (I will not call them hockey fans) do what they did last night. It was a disgrace! Even if that were to happen to Mats in Ottawa you would never see that sort of disrespect for a PERSONs well being.
The Leafs and their fans have gone from my number 3 fav. team to the 30th. Now I'm going to watch the game and hope that it is a good one...unlike what happened with the Leaf players and fans last night!

Answer 1

Again, EVERY team has its bad apples:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=nhl&id=2875388

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/2007-05-18-3352343987_x.htm

I don't need to dig up any more articles about that.



Seriously, it isn't fair to generalize about an entire fanbase based on what a few fans do or even what a population of fans at one single game does.

Answer 2

That hit was disgusting it broke nearly every rule in the game. Elbow to the face on a player that didnt even have the puck. The response by toronto was even more discusting than the hit by the jeering. On any other player this would be ok. But on ALFIE for fucks sake. He not only happens to be one of the great veterans of the league he is also one of the most noble and respectful. I mean he rarely fights and he is an awesome team player. I think Mark Bell should be lynched along with every other Maple Leafs Idiot that jeered. That one hit could now jeopardize the Sens playoff chance. What an outrage.

Answer 3

i watched the game last night and as a leafs fan im gonna say that was pretty rude. but u cant judge all the fans for what the few fans did at the acc. it was rude and disrespectful but cant blame everyone and the leafs team for the few people!! and when u said if mats went down in ottawa u wouldnt hear boo's thats only because half the fans are always leafs fans!!! but still what the crowd did was still disrespectful.

Answer 4

I usually enjoy watching the Maple Leafs and Senators, and I do admit for cheering or the Leafs most of the time, but what I saw yesterday from the Air Canada Centre was the most classless thing imaginable in hockey. Now I have them ranked right next to Calgary for least amount of class. Bell seems to feel tough because he has that face mask on.

Answer 5

gonchar-- as terrible as that is (an even though the following isnt hockey, it still relates to overly....excited, for lack of a better word, fans) I was at a Raiders-Niners game and lucky me i got to sit with all the violent Raiders fans (im a niners fan). Well, there was a boy, no more than 11 years old, who walked through there with a niners jersey on. Besides having hateful words yelled at him and popcorn and other food items thrown at him, a man decided it would be "funny" to pour beer on his head. The boy ran away sobbing.



I told this story because I honestly think there needs to be a change in how fans act when they are in a sporting game environment. I realize that they are in the heat of the moment, but to act like I stated above and like the fans in Toronto did is just morally wrong. Its is just a game. As much as I like hockey and as much as I love going to games, some fans really need to take a step back and see that those men that are wearing the other teams jersey are actual people, just as are the men wearing the home teams jersey are. I completely agree that the Toronto fans were classless and disrespectful and they should be ashamed.

Answer 6

March 17, 2010. Roy Thomson Hall. It's at King and Simcoe. You can take the subway and get off at St. Andrew. I'd personally wait until the July 8 show at Massey Hall. I believe that's Shuter and Yonge. The acoustics are amazing at that place. A few live albums have been recorded there by different artists.

Answer 7

OK........first off we have some hypocrites in the house. I am talking about a couple of Leafs fans who completely lambasted some Flyers players for questionable hits earlier this season.....and are now applauding the Leafs Bell for his questionable hit. I am not going to call you out, you know who you are.....this just proves you are homers to the nth degree and giant HYPOCRITES.



As for the question, every team's fan base has a few bad apples. Yes..........even your precious Sens.



http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/05/17/senators-assault-070517.html



How quickly we forget....just in last year's post season, a few Sens fans behaved like morons. By your theory, I guess the Sens are now your 29th favorite team.



It has always been my thinking that the fans pay their money and can boo whatever they want to boo. I have never been a huge fan of booing an injury but unlike most, I could care less if someone boos one of the Flyers fallen.......even if he is taken out on a stretcher. It is not like it changes anything.



Furthermore, I have never seen any fans boo an injury to a player whom they were neutral to.......Philly has had their share....for instance, they booed Michael Irvin's injury (Cowboys vs Eagles) and while some may call it classless, my thinking is you reap what you sow. Alfredsson has a history with Toronto and is not well liked.....he took a questionable hit....the fans cheered. At the end of the day...so what?? I just have a hard time feeling sorry for a guy who makes millions of dollars to play a game because he got the snot knocked out of him. Will I cheer it? Probably not but that's just me.



To me, there are far bigger travesties going on in the world then some misguided fans who boo an injured hockey player who got his bell (pardon the pun) rung.

Answer 8

If I was there I don't think I would have booed him but, I probably would have liked to. I think we can certainly affix lablels easy enough and Alfie has been guilty of doing some questionable things in the past (most recently last year's finals) so the Toronto fans last night were as classless as Alfie. Reap what you sew.



And I never agreed with them booing Bobby Orr either but, they still did it.



You can blame the people at the game but there were another 6 or 7 million Leaf fans who weren't at the game you owe an apology to (unless of course you yourself are just as classless).



And the Sens still suck.

Answer 9

Yeah, it sucks when you are clumped in with the few idiots that support your team.



I was however, immensely impressed that the Ranger fans gave Jeremy Roenick an ovation as he was helped off the ice after he took that puck in the jaw a few seasons ago. That was totally classy.



BOB - if I knew who they were, I'd be all too happy to grill them.

Answer 10

As for the "questionable" hit, it looked a lot like the hit Drury took from Neil. To hear all these Sens fans complain it was dirty, and yet call the Neil hit clean, you can't have it both ways. Hockey is a contact sport, if your head is down you're gonna get hit.

Answer 11

I totally agree man, and I ddn't see that incident but it doesn't surprise me. I am from Toronto and I am a flames fan, and I can generalize that Leafs fans are annoying and whiny. Yes I do have a couple friends who are leaf fans but theyre not really hardcore fans or anything. Leaf fans can all suck my ***... one of my favourite things i used to do was go to Leafs-Habs game with my buddy whos a big habs fan and he would give me his extra jersey. We would just give all the annoying leaf fan abuse because theyre all askin for it!





Leafs suck

Answer 12

They are a bunch of idiots, they have no respect!

I went to watch the Montreal Canadiens for my first time ever and these immature old men in their 40's sitting behind me every time Saku Koivu touched the puck they would say "I hope he does of cancer" it disgusted me, they think it's right to joke about cancer a deadly disease.

I wanted to punch the idiot, but he was older and im only 18!

Then when we left they were calling all us HAB supporters French bastards.



And this year when I went to see the Penguins for the first time, awesome experience! I swear Toronto fans secretly love the Pens, Penguins fans are the nicest fans I have ever met but anyways back on topic the Toronto fan next to me was telling me to shut up each time Pittsburgh scored, they were so upset, each time the Pens scored I screamed so loud I swear the Penguins bench heard me.

And the Toronto fan behind me with her boyfriend, who left every minute for a beer was so drunk she was cheering for the Pens when they scored, even though she was making fun of them 5 minutes earlier and was a Toronto fan!



Honestly Toronto fans are so disrespectful and immature.

I love seeing any NHL team beat them!

Answer 13

hmm Slayer you're also a Leafs fan, so put your money where your mouth is and have another Alpine (bitchin' lager from New Brunswick for those who don't know ..)

Answer 14

I agree with you 110 %%%%%



And boy they thought Philly fans were tough!!!