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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
I was strictly talking about basketball and the fact that you Cleveland whiners got to watch one of the greatest athletes ever for 7 years, many of which were seasons where those teams contended for championships. Cities rarely get that kind of direct opportunity to experience the kind of transcendent athlete that LeBron is.
But really, outside of two baseball championships over two decades ago that are a distant memory for many, Toronto has been just as bad as anybody in the area of professional sports. The Leafs haven't won a Cup in nearly 50 years, the Raptors have had only five .500+ seasons in their entire existence, and the Blue Jays haven't sniffed the playoffs since 1993.
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That is too funny. Yeah, I guess Chiefs' fans are whiners because we think the Vermeil era was a failure. But... but... we got to watch a dominant RB and maybe the best TE of all time!
Don't even try to compare Toronto to Cleveland. Cleveland is known for having a devout fan base despite how bad their teams are. They had one football owner take a sellout crowd team to a new market purely for $'s, then watched that coach (bellichick) become one of the best coaches in NFL history and watched that same team win a Super Bowl a few years later. In the 90's, the Browns never made a Super Bowl, but twice came within seconds of it: 1) John Elways had "the Drive" where he went 97 yards against a dominant defense; 2) "the Fumble" - Earnest Byner fumbled a game-tying 4th quarter TD on the 1 yard line. In 1997, the Indians blew a 3-1 lead and haven't been to the World Series since.
LeBron is from Akron. He knows the history. A lot of my best friends are Cleveland fans. Anyone who tells these fans to "get over it" or that they are "whiney" need to get real.