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Originally Posted by yaletown_fella
Also, I find the hatred of the Leafs in Vancouver to be interesting. I'm wondering if this is a born-n-bred BCer thing or an ex-Ontarian thing?
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It's a western thing. Just as Leaf fans can't deal with the fact that the Original 6 era only lasted 25 years and is nearly 50 years in the past, many of us still can't get over the CBC broadcasting a perpetually losing team in favour of a Cup champion in the 1980s. Or at least any team who's made it to the finals, over the past couple of decades.
This has all changed of course with modern television (we haven't been stuck watching Leafs games only for at least a decade) but memories are long. It'll be another generation at least before the Leafs are relegated to being "just another team, that happens to have been around a bit longer". Hell, just look at how long the ridiculously outdated "Original 6" phrase has lasted. It's frightening to think that very soon, San Jose will have had a team longer than the Original 6 era lasted.