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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Ted Rogers spent his life defying expectations. He feared he would die by the time he was 38, the age when his father was felled by a brain aneurysm, leaving a six-year-old son with the pristine image of a heroic dad.
Driven by this memory, young Ted managed to live almost twice as long as his father, surviving a lengthy catalogue of physical ailments. He died on Tuesday at the age of 75 at his home in Toronto. He suffered from congestive heart failure.
A sickly kid, he was always picked last for sports teams at upper-crust Upper Canada College, but he made himself into a decent boxer. As an adult, he bought a major league baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays, while conceding he was “the village idiot” on baseball matters.
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1. Leroy Kincaid Posted: December 02, 2008 at 01:28 PM (#3018585)Rogers (the company) owns the Jays. Rogers (the man) owned Rogers (the company).
Sincerely yours,
An (former) Expos fan who is still bitter about you voting for an MLB team to leave Canada.
Or both, which is where I fear this is going. Not to threadjack, but it made me incredibly uncomfortable when Roger Goodell told the people of Buffalo that the future of the team depended on their level of support. There's no team in football that's more supported by the community, with the possible exception of the Packers. Goodell's comment just doesn't make sense unless he's trying to justify an upcoming move with "see, I told you, you should have supported the team more fervently".
If the Bills move to Toronto, the CFL should immediately put a team in Buffalo. They'd lead the league in attendance.
Yeah. On home game days, when the game is on, Buffalo, and the surrounding suburbs / towns such as Amherst, Williamsville, is pretty much entirely deserted. Not a car on the roads. Go into a grocery store such as Tops or Wegmans, and the only people there are the people working there. Pretty much everyone is watching the game.
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