DichioTFC
10-14-2010, 03:43 PM
ESPN ranked every single major team (MLS not included) from North America and ranked them based on Bang for the Buck, Fan Relations, Ownership, Affordability, Stadium Experience, Players, Coaching and Title Track.
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/teamrankings
Take a wild guess how ML$E owned teams preformed (out of 122 teams)
113. Toronto Raptors
121. Toronto Maple Leafs (thats right, second to last)
Insight from ESPN how ML$E runs the Leafs:
Last Year's Rank: 120
Title Track: 112
Ownership: 95
Coaching: 86
Players: 109
Fan Relations: 109
Affordability: 122
Stadium Experience: 102
Bang for the Buck: 122
Good news for Leafs fans: It's still more expensive (on average) to attend a Patriots home game, $90.89 to $88.32. The bad news? The Pats are, um, good. With the costliest ticket in the NHL ($39.60 above the league average) and the steepest hot dogs ($4.76), soft drinks ($4.01) and parking ($20.04), it's no wonder fans feel abused. After his team fell out of playoff contention for the third consecutive season, GM/Public Enemy No. 1 John Ferguson Jr. was replaced by interim suit Cliff Fletcher in January, offering Toronto faithful some hope. Unfortunately for Fletcher and fans alike, several key (and high-priced) players, including captain Mats Sundin, refused to waive no-trade clauses at the Feb. 26 deadline, making rebuilding a winner an exercise in futility (and sending the Players ranking down 37 slots this year).
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?name=franchise08rank121
And how they run the Raptors
Last Year's Rank: 105
Title Track: 121
Ownership: 100
Coaching: 115
Players: 117
Fan Relations: 108
Affordability: 112
Stadium Experience: 98
Bang for the Buck: 82
THIS IS THE FUTURE OF TORONTO FC. Dead last in championships, dead last in fan relations, dead last in affordability, dead last in fan relations, dead last in stadium experience.
It's not funny any more, its actually getting really scary. Toronto FC is the first ML$E team that I've ever cared for and seeing the ML$E track record really doesn't give me any confidence in ML$E as owners.
Its time for ML$E to have some fucking integrity and to stop treating TFC fans as an additional revenue stream. Be content with the hundreds of millions you're making off of the Leafs and the Raptors and let us be the low-profit winning franchise. Freeze ticket prices, drop concession prices, make parking cheaper. For fuck's sake, if we won something, we would gladly pay for an increase. But we haven't won anything. We've shat the bed year after miserable year. What are we paying more for?
If anyone is going to the Town Hall, please bring this up. This is our future. And if it comes down to deciding between mortgage payments and the team we love, we all know which one we're going to pick.
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/teamrankings
Take a wild guess how ML$E owned teams preformed (out of 122 teams)
113. Toronto Raptors
121. Toronto Maple Leafs (thats right, second to last)
Insight from ESPN how ML$E runs the Leafs:
Last Year's Rank: 120
Title Track: 112
Ownership: 95
Coaching: 86
Players: 109
Fan Relations: 109
Affordability: 122
Stadium Experience: 102
Bang for the Buck: 122
Good news for Leafs fans: It's still more expensive (on average) to attend a Patriots home game, $90.89 to $88.32. The bad news? The Pats are, um, good. With the costliest ticket in the NHL ($39.60 above the league average) and the steepest hot dogs ($4.76), soft drinks ($4.01) and parking ($20.04), it's no wonder fans feel abused. After his team fell out of playoff contention for the third consecutive season, GM/Public Enemy No. 1 John Ferguson Jr. was replaced by interim suit Cliff Fletcher in January, offering Toronto faithful some hope. Unfortunately for Fletcher and fans alike, several key (and high-priced) players, including captain Mats Sundin, refused to waive no-trade clauses at the Feb. 26 deadline, making rebuilding a winner an exercise in futility (and sending the Players ranking down 37 slots this year).
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?name=franchise08rank121
And how they run the Raptors
Last Year's Rank: 105
Title Track: 121
Ownership: 100
Coaching: 115
Players: 117
Fan Relations: 108
Affordability: 112
Stadium Experience: 98
Bang for the Buck: 82
THIS IS THE FUTURE OF TORONTO FC. Dead last in championships, dead last in fan relations, dead last in affordability, dead last in fan relations, dead last in stadium experience.
It's not funny any more, its actually getting really scary. Toronto FC is the first ML$E team that I've ever cared for and seeing the ML$E track record really doesn't give me any confidence in ML$E as owners.
Its time for ML$E to have some fucking integrity and to stop treating TFC fans as an additional revenue stream. Be content with the hundreds of millions you're making off of the Leafs and the Raptors and let us be the low-profit winning franchise. Freeze ticket prices, drop concession prices, make parking cheaper. For fuck's sake, if we won something, we would gladly pay for an increase. But we haven't won anything. We've shat the bed year after miserable year. What are we paying more for?
If anyone is going to the Town Hall, please bring this up. This is our future. And if it comes down to deciding between mortgage payments and the team we love, we all know which one we're going to pick.