Toronto FC

[1argoholic]

So they are using BMO colours, big shit. Who cares! Skinny little dudes don't look too mean. Maybe they don't like the uni's. I think they should go with brown with yellow spots.

[Double Dare]

So they are using BMO colours, big shit. Who cares! Skinny little dudes don't look too mean. Maybe they don't like the uni's. I think they should go with brown with yellow spots.

After the their "pitch" gets all chewed-up due to the Argos play, their "kits" will have plenty of brown spots. Mud bowl here we come! Ha, ha.

[1argoholic]

Kits and pitch? It's Canada it's a uniform and field. There fans are fans, not supporters. Those have a different meaning in Canada.

[PullTogether73]

Kits and pitch? It's Canada it's a uniform and field. There fans are fans, not supporters. Those have a different meaning in Canada.

The game originated in the U.K.
Their sport, their terms.

I wouldn't be impressed if some other country referred to hockey "blades" and "woods" instead of skates and sticks.

[ArgoRavi]

The game originated in the U.K.
Their sport, their terms.

I wouldn't be impressed if some other country referred to hockey "blades" and "woods" instead of skates and sticks.

I don't recall those terms being used back in the 1970s and 1980s when the NASL was around or in the late 1980s/early 1990s when the old Canadian Soccer League was around. I wonder why those terms weren't used back then but are now.

BTW, I have noticed that American commentators refer to the "boards" in hockey as the "wall".

[AngeloV]

I don't recall those terms being used back in the 1970s and 1980s when the NASL was around or in the late 1980s/early 1990s when the old Canadian Soccer League was around. I wonder why those terms weren't used back then but are now.

BTW, I have noticed that American commentators refer to the "boards" in hockey as the "wall".

No kidding. It's pretty hypocritical to insist on calling the field the "pitch", but also refer to the sport as soccer.

[LLB997]

The game originated in the U.K.
Their sport, their terms.

I wouldn't be impressed if some other country referred to hockey "blades" and "woods" instead of skates and sticks.

id think its pretty likely that russians, swedes and czechs dont call them skates and sticks.

[Ron]

I don't recall those terms being used back in the 1970s and 1980s when the NASL was around or in the late 1980s/early 1990s when the old Canadian Soccer League was around. I wonder why those terms weren't used back then but are now.

BTW, I have noticed that American commentators refer to the "boards" in hockey as the "wall".

Terms change as time passes. Much like the rouge is now called a single by many fans.

Obviously it's not a big deal that they use the British terminology today and didn't use it 30 years ago. European soccer is also much more mainstream in North America than it was 30 years ago.

[argolio]

I don't recall those terms being used back in the 1970s and 1980s when the NASL was around or in the late 1980s/early 1990s when the old Canadian Soccer League was around. I wonder why those terms weren't used back then but are now.

It definitely because the English Premier League is now on every week, not to mention that British announcers do all the World Cup and Euro games on Canadian TV.

[Deerkeeper]

Kits and pitch? It's Canada it's a uniform and field. There fans are fans, not supporters. Those have a different meaning in Canada.

I still roll my eyes every time some sports media talking head announces soccer scores as one-nil instead of one-nothing. Honestly, has nil ever been used in announcing sports scores in this country until everybody started to insist we start using British soccerese.

[ArgoRavi]

It definitely because the English Premier League is now on every week, not to mention that British announcers do all the World Cup and Euro games on Canadian TV.

British announcers also do the MLS games in this country. I suspect that the "Britishizing" of the sport in Canada is an attempt to give it more legitimacy at the pro level.

[1argoholic]

We're Canadian. Why bend over for all of these other countries? I'm sick of it.

Pitch is what they do in baseball. Pretty sure other countries aren't Canadianizing squat.

[Ron]

We're Canadian. Why bend over for all of these other countries?.

No, we bend a knee to England and the head of our Nation ... the Queen. So British terminology is our terminology.

[Ron]

Hey, how about that group of TFC fans that are banned from organizing as a group for a few games this season ... including the home opener? Seems some TFC fans are real hoodlums.

[Double Dare]

No, we bend a knee to England and the head of our Nation ... the Queen. So British terminology is our terminology.

England should be down on both knees, giving the head of our nation for all the money that the monarchy still gets from Canada. Screw the royal family.

[1argoholic]

Screw the Bitch and her money. Time for the Royals to dole out some coin to the needy. "God Save The Queen and Her Fascist Ragime", To quote The Pistols. Plus "Get The Bitch Off The Money, Get Her Off." "F That Bitch". To quote Paul Mackenzie of The Real Mckenzies. Great Canadian celtic punk. She can take the Kit, Pitch, Supporters and RAM it all!!! hahaha.

[ArgoZ]

Our friendly neighbors started off the season well today with a two - nil win!

[TOBenfica]

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/author/chris-zelkovich/ with all the talk of toronto not caring about the Argos... you would expect TFC TV ratings to be awesome... 68000 for their second game?

[rdavies]

I have to say I got some good schadenfreude going seeing those TFC ratings. Reading what a sizable element of their fans say about the Argos and the CFL it looks good on them. I'm not worried about TFC or the MLS as their future is secure and I don't have any issue with them, just some of the TFC fans. I like how these hypocritical little poops also wish death on the Argos and CFL yet if there is a line on the field they say they will run to the new CPL (backed by guess who?) TFC fans don't want to share the stadium and yet they expect the CFL to do so with the CPL. Hypocrites!

As for the ratings though, as much as I think it will be a rebound year for the CFL (from the last two years) I think ratings may decrease there as well. A negative trend is stating to take shape over traditional content viewership and no one is able to explain why yet. And of course the Toronto centric media will ballyhoo the slow death of the CFL ignoring the fact every other sport (aside from another Jay's run) is suffering from the same fate.

I've said it before but the vibe coming from the Argos will be the vibe that drives the CFL this year, I'm hoping and thinking it will be good.

[rdavies]

See that there is the usual comedy of RPBers trying to pass off the beyond absymal rating for the last game. Looks good on "em.