Here we are the last Friday night of the 2014 season.
We just returned from a bland game at Rogers Centre. Mark Cohon making a final appearance, Ricky Ray concussed and not playing, the great Henry Burris ending the debut season of the Redblacks with a loss, Argos' playoff prospects contingent, and the bleak future of Toronto overall.
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The subway ride home carried youthful, engaged Raptors' watchers and a greying minority of Argos fans. I asked merch-wearing 15 year olds the basketball score, and they were gushing about their game's experience. I related the Argos win, and charmingly, they were just as happy to hear it. I have never seen teenagers going to an Argos game on their own. Tellingly, there were many of them at games I attended in September at TD Place and Terrain Tim Hortons Field. That's the Argos future getting missed, and it added to my funk.
I feel sad with the CFL season ending like this. Chris and Glen on the evening's second game shaking hands and wrapping it up. Great players injured and questionable for the playoffs. A golden-era CFL commissioner changing careers. The diminished status and prospects of a historic franchise. Blue. Double blue.
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