Welcome To Toronto, a.k.a. Loserville
Can there be a North American sports city that has suffered more disappointment than Toronto over the past decade or so? I doubt it.
Living in Canada's most populated city, we have come to witness the downfall that is Toronto's professional sports teams. It is where stars have come to lay their careers to rest, where winners have come to experience the bitter taste of defeat, and where every athlete who enters seemingly can't wait to leave. It seems like there is only one way to describe such a city, and this poster says it all. "Welcome To Loserville."
The MLB's Blue Jays have failed to make the playoffs since winning the World Series back in 1993. The NBA's Raptors have made the playoffs only two of the past seven seasons and have won only one playoff series since joining the league in 1995. The MLS's Toronto FC has not made the post-season in their three years of existence. And the CFL's Argos have been terrible, failing to make the playoffs the past two seasons, winning only one championship over the past 12 years (not that impressive when you consider the league has just 8 teams).
As for the city's pride and joy, or as many prefer to call them, "God's Team", the Toronto Maple Leafs have been anything but sacred. In fact, they could use the help of God, and perhaps some other biblical figures as well, to fill the many holes in their lineup. Leaf fans have failed to see a playoff game since 2004, and have not celebrated a Stanley Cup victory since 1967. That means many fans today have not experienced this franchise win a single championship, and the last time they did there was only six teams in the league.
Yes, when you are looking at the ineptitude that is Toronto's sports teams, you need not look any further than the Toronto Maple Leafs, but don't be fooled. The Raptors, Jays, FC and Argos have not been much better. Perhaps the Argos and Jays have provided us with championships that could be seen on colored televisions, but what have they done for us lately?
Besides creating a new legacy for the city we may now refer to as "Loserville", the answer is an obvious one. Not much at all!
Welcome to Loserville -[TorontoSun]
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that sucks for the sportsfans in Toronto, hope that they won´t call Vancouver loserville during the Olympic winter games in 2010.
why would vancouver be called loserville? the only crap team we have is the canucks. and canada rules at winter games.
Loserville… O man this is classic.
They should put that sign up for Cleveland, OH
yea they should….oh shit wait….didn’t the cavs go 66-16 last year, 39-2 at home, win coach of the year and have a player win the nba mvp?
Did they win a championship? The Raptors had 1 good regular season too when they won their division.
They also were barely over .500 that year and the east was TERRIBLE!
“Can there be a North American sports city that has suffered more disappointment than Toronto over the past decade or so? I doubt it.”
Actually, it would be far worse to be a Buffalo fan. Atleast the Blue Jays won a World Series way back when, and don’t actually choke away championships like you or I might change underwear.
well yeah toronto maybe sucking but give em credit, toronto has had kessel out for a while he should be good to play this week, as for the team 11 players are new and never played with eachother so it’snot like they are gonna jump out to a 6-0-0 win streak. and as for the guy who thinks disappointments happen to TORONTO ONLY guess again bub BUFFALO is another city which has let us down for as long as it’s been around hell Toronto has won at least 13 stanley cups when we came close 3 times and never made it. be thankful for what you’ve got losers and by the way BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO. lets go Sabres!!!!
why don’t you list off the toronto rock’s record, oh ya that’s right I believe they are considered a dynasty team in the NLL winning 5 championships in 7 years in the late 90s early 2000s. And you put them on the sign, moron
The Toronto Sun created this image, they are the ones that listed the 6 sports teams
It’s funny that no one even notices our one and only 2009 national championship team, the Toronto Nationals (field lacrosse). I realize that lacrosse doesn’t have the same fan base as the other major sports but it would be nice to read about a winning team once in a while rather than being over exposed to our beloved ‘losers’.
even the rock have been poor in the last couple of seasons. if you are calling Toronto the modern day loserville (as in their teams are all losers now, which they are) the Rock would also be considered in that category. Missing the playoffs and a bad start to this season gets you there. Sad but true.
You forgot to mention the 1 Winning Team in Toronto – The Toronto Rock.
They’ve won 5 Championships in their 10 Year History.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Rock
really? the toronto rock? ppl watch lacrosse? that’s like saying: ‘hey, they forgot to mention did well ‘ lawls.
‘hey, they forgot to mention (insert badminton/table-tennis/curling toronto team name) did well (insert wins during last decade)’
edit: had to use () since it wouldn’t recognize any other way =/
luckily the olympics are in vancouver this year and canada will redeam themselves so they wont be considered loserville anymore… but their pro teams will still suck… the problem is that canada sucks and no pro athlete wants to live there so its hard to recruit.
3 words ….BUFFALO NEW YORK
CANADA =/= TORONTO, get it right
At least most of the sports that they are bad at were created by Americans, so they are not native sports to Canada
Cool, a town that’s good at anything but sports. LOL
Paul5 -
Actually all of those sports save for soccer were either invented by a Canadian or first played in Canada.
Hockey – was first played by British soldiers in Kingston and Halifax in the 1850s. The first rules were drafted at McGill University (Montreal) in the 1870s.
Lacrosse – the Huron and Iroquois played it as early as the 12th century. In 1637, the Jesuit missionary Jean de Brebeuf was the first European to write about the game, and named it lacrosse.
Football – the first recorded game of gridiron football was played at Toronto’s University College in 1861. In 1874, McGill University challenged Harvard to a game, which is how it spread to the US. The difference in field size between US and Canadian rules is a result of Harvard having a smaller field than the one they played on in Montreal.
Basketball – A Canadian named James Naismith invented basketball while working as a teacher at Springfield College. The first game was played in 1891.
Baseball wasn’t invented in Canada or the US. America’s passtime was invented by the Brits, with some changes to a children’s game called Rounders – a game which was brought to North America by British immigrants. However, the game was played in Canada before it came to the US. The first recorded baseball game in North America occurred in 1838 in Beachville, Ontario. The great Abner Doubleday was purported to be the inventor of baseball, which supposedly occurred in 1839 in Cooperstown, NY, a year after it had already been played in Canada. However, Doubleday never claimed to have invented it. The whole thing was made up by Al Spalding. It wasn’t until 7 years after the Beachville game that the New York Knickerbockers played the first recorded game on US soil.
The US is responsible for volleyball, if that’s any consolation.
Joe Carter hit a pretty good home run right?
Why will Hamilton never get a NHL team? …Because if they got one, Toronto would want one too.
I am not a Leaf fan and I hate the Red Wings!
Hell, its been over 100 years for the Cubs. How do you think that makes me feel?
Going to a Leafs game is like going to a Billy Graham rally. Every few minutes, everyone stands up and yells, JESUS CHRIST! ! ! !