It is fun again.
For a long time it wasn't. In fact it was miserable. Going to TFC games was a cynical, bitter experience and an experience fewer and fewer people were having. There was no hope left and without hope a sports team is nothing.
As Tim Leiweke said yesterday at the press conference announcing Jermain Defoe and Michael Bradley, nothing has been won yet. As we saw in this city just last year with the Blue Jays, winning the off-season means absolutely nothing when the games start.
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And, as we also saw with the Jays, if the off-season promise doesn't get fulfilled the fans become even more alienated. So, to say that 2014 is of vital importance to TFC is an incredible understatement.
Also of vital importance was this off-season though. Against all odds they pulled off the impossible. They made an incredibly bitter and impossibly cynical fan base be fans again.
Fans that sing. Fans that are excited. Fans that hope.
Yesterday, they were fans that were proud of their team again. After the last seven years that might be the biggest miracle Leiweke pulled off.
Now the pressure falls on the players and Ryan Nelsen. On paper, TFC has enough talent now to be playing in November (add another defender and I'll argue they have enough to be playing in December).
They still have to go out and do it though because things will get ugly, fast if they don't.