Genuine question, what is with the National staying in Chicago

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

Are you actually taking the concept seriously?

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

That isn't happening and it isn't going to happen. Every Canadian friend I have is laughing about it because it's such a ridiculously stupid concept.

I for one am not taking the concept seriously. It's simply silliness incarnate. If Canada falls apart, it won't be due to the United States. It will be due to our own grievous mismanagement of our finances/affairs/country.

What I find galling though is the hypocrisy of so many Canadians and particularly the sports fans who have for the last few decades embraced the NFL, NCAA sports, all the American imports/aliens playing as mercenaries for the Toronto Blue Jays and Toronto Raptors and American sports in general while showing a complete lack of interest in the CFL and Canadian university sports. Now all of a sudden these fellows have become Canadian nationalists? Where the hell were they the last forty years when the Toronto Argonauts, Montréal Alouettes and every Canadian university including my beloved alma mater the University of Western Ontario could barely give tickets away?

Of course there's also the women who've been hanging on every word, every scene, every designer dress from the Oscars in Hollywood, U.S.A. for the last eighty years.

And then there are those "Canadians" who can't wait to flee to Florida in the winter months rather than taking pride in and revelling in our sub-Arctic weather. Some even go so far as to wear positively nauseating "My Canada includes Florida!" T-shirts.



So only now do these people discover their Canadian roots? A bit late for that methinks.