006 - The Take Purge

express? This is a feel-good one.

Not all my takes are going to be feel-good.

This one is actually kind of a nice one.

Okay.

I think that Ottawa Senators fans are the best and most loyal fans in Canada.

And I'll tell you why.

No other place could pull off this franchise and it's not even fucking close.

let me explain okay so ottawa heard of this place the capital city of canada is located between tianto ontario the largest city in canada and Montreal, the scuzziest city in Canada.

In a cool way.

Yeah, the horniest but sleaziest city in Canada,

which is only two hours if you drive like a little old man, like Hans Molman.

The Montreal White Men's Athletic Association hockey squadron started in 1909. which is 83 years ago, and the Tianto St. Barnabas, like, whatever the fuck they were when they first started, is 1917.

The 19-dickety-seven when the Kaiser took away the number one from dates.

So if you kind of, like, take the most recent team, these guys have a 75-year history head start on Ottawa like establishing a fucking fan base Ottawa mind you on the border of Quebec so you know mostly an English speaking city with tons of French people like to put that head start that they get into perspective it's it's still 24 more years before the debut of big chungus like we are going way back in time you know like i would say that's probably the biggest event that happened around that time like 24 years after 1917 i can't think of anything else weird that was happening mostly big chungus fast forward so basically like when you think about it, aside from everyone's like dad, that like some kind of freak original 16, like the Boston bears or the Detroit wheels, um, You basically have to turn against your own blood and friends to become a fan of your own fucking

city's team.

Right? Like, my personal situation is...

Because I'm 57 years old.

And my entire family lives in Montreal.

A little peek behind the curtain for me.

You think there's any other Ottawa Senators fans in my family?

You know?

Actually, there is one.

part of my family who pretends they live in toronto they live in a place called burlington one of the worst places i've ever been to my life

and i've been to gary

indiana um but uh yeah you basically have to start a holy war if you're over the age of like 30 something uh to cheer for your own fucking team and how are you repaid for that The fucking Montreal Canadas win the Stanley Cup in the first year that they exist.