Kanye West, TFC, Six Straight, Traffic Chaos

chris — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:56:22 +0000

Last night TFC defeated DC United to run our unbeaten streak to 6 games. Also at The Ex, the Toronto Marlies defeated the Chicago Wolves to continue their playoff run. And just across the street Rihanna and Kanye were performing at The Molson Amphitheatre. Now as exciting as it is to have all of these events taking place in our fair city, having them all share a parking lot, and then deciding to try something new in managing the traffic is just stupid.

I live 6km from the venues and it took us nearly 1 hour to get home. That is unacceptable. The Toronto Police and staff of the Exhibition Grounds closed off a number of roads and were trying to direct traffic… but come on; an hour to travel 6km????

Now on a high note… we didn’t know who was playing at the Amphitheatre so we asked the two guys sitting next to us if they knew. The younger guy (in his 30s) didn’t know. His father, who bears a resemblance to Uncle Leo from Seinfeld, stood up and asked the crowd, “Does anyone know who’s playing at the Amphitheatre? Anyone?”

A couple of younger girls in the row behind us responded, “Kanye and Rihanna.”

Uncle Leo sits down and says to me, “Don’t act like I nevah told ya!”

And we laughed.

Toronto FC :: 2-2-0 Woo Hoo!!

chris — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:32:05 +0000

Picking up where they left off last year, the TFC faithful rocked the BMO Field from the minute we walked through the gates. The atmosphere in the stadium is incredible, and you can tell that the players feed off it.

The supporters in the south stands learned/created a few new songs during their off-season. My particular favourite is the chorus to “Hey Jude” except they replace “Hey Jude” with “Edu” as in, “Naaaaa, naaa, naaa ,na na na na. Na na na na. Aaaaaa Dooooo!” – a reference to TFC player Maurice Edu.

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Kanye West, TFC, Six Straight, Traffic Chaos

Toronto FC :: 2-2-0 Woo Hoo!!