Toronto may yet win the Cup, but in the meantime there’s always a curse to consider Globe_Sports
The most famous and least welcome sports enthusiast on planet Earth, Drake, popped by the Leafs game on Wednesday night.The hip-hop star was shown early on TV broadcasts, standing in a private box in a #6 Toronto jersey. Presumably, that particular sweater was meant as an homage to the city.It’s also Ace Bailey’s retired number. We all know how poorly that ended. And weren’t the Boston Bruins involved in that somehow? You can go a long way down this rabbit hole.
He’s too big for his britches; he is a sports jinx so infamous an Italian soccer club recently ‘banned’ its players from taking pictures with him; and, most incriminatingly, he is from Toronto. Who can trust that sort of person? The audio-visual set-up inside the Scotiabank Arena – half of which seems devoted to black-and-white reels and a Bill Barilko homage – rather reinforces the effect. This club isn’t living in the past. It’s made the past its cultural present.The only modern thing about the Toronto Maple Leafs organization is the players themselves. Everything else is gasping under a thick bed of tradition.
They should ban Drake from the premises immediately. That would be peak Toronto and, therefore, good humour. Championships are great and all, but curses are more fun. A big, big win gives people something to celebrate together for an evening. A curse gives them something to kvetch about forever. Complaining is the more reliable of the two urges.
Once the Leafs finally do this there will be the obligatory orgy of pent-up emotion. And then what? Do it again? Like Pittsburgh? Where has that ended them up?Success is a soul-deadening hamster wheel. If you doubt me, try to remember the last time you met a happy-go-lucky lawyer.
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