Standing Alone

For a city with one major sporting team during the Winter / Spring, we sure have a lot of doubters. I have to admit I haven't had the chance to meet other fans in other cities, but I'm going to have to say that Vancouver as a fan base is pretty bad. Seems like the city enjoys seeing the Canucks lose even if it means cheering for the 29 other teams. But I guess you have a higher percentage of being right if you cheer for the 29 other teams.

I have no problems with Vancouver-ites who cheer for other teams, to each their own, what rubs me the wrong way are those that cheer for every other team but the Canucks. Not even cheering for the other team the whole season, just for that one game that they play against the Canucks. These are the same people that sit on the fence, they hate to be wrong, they gloat when they're right, and they can be quoted saying "I told you so." They don't follow hockey at all and will always bring up points from the past that are totally irrelevant with the current team.

I'd rather cheer on my favourite team through decades of futility, then root against them just to be right.

I hope that at some point in time, the Canucks do go all the way and bring the cup home. Hopefully I'm still alive to see that day. And hopefully I still have enough energy to gloat back at all the doubters, and tell them that they have no right to celebrate this glorious day, for they are not a fan, they have never been a fan, and the team doesn't need them as a fan, go cheer for the 29 other losers, thank you very much, buh bye!

But until then I'm stuck sitting here with my Canucks jersey, taking verbal abuse from the non-fans about how I should pick a new team, about how we can't score, about how Luongo isn't as good as last year, about how there are 29 other teams. But there isn't 29 other teams, there is only this one, and whether they're 1st or last, I'll stand alone if I have to.