What is going on in TO? An unexpected 3-0 season start...and maybe soon the Raptors will be the talk of the town!!

As a season ticketholder of the Raptors, it's a nice treat to be 3-0. The style of play is much more appealing than anything I have seen since the Butch Carter days. They have a very rough schedule until Christmas, but if they can make it to 2005 playing around .500, they have a really good shot at the playoffs. They should be in the AC Jetz 320 right now en route to the West Coast for six games. Best of luck.

Just you wait. The Argos are going to come into the Big O and take down the Als.

In your dreams!!

It's nice to see the Argos and the Raptors doing well, especially since our Leafs fix is unavailable for an indeterminate period.

I particularly like what the new Argos owners have done in 12 months. Local owners, without the arrogance of some of the other local sports team owners

No way the Als are gonna take it, and the Raptors will end up choking some time...Don't you love the way i put down my hometown

In your WET dreams

Hey last time they met the Argos didn't even play the first team and the Als only won by 35 points.

What an awesome cross-over post. I love the Raptors more than any other pro sports team, even Man United) I spend 50% of my computer time here on Flyer Talk and the other on the Raps discussion at http://hoopsworld.com/board.

All the money I save with AC is spent on Raps tickets

Seriously, they are going to great this year, play fun ball, make a run in the playoffs and bring fans back to the ACC.

No if E and SE could only get a little something something extra at the ACC

I'm a long time Raptors season ticket holder (since the beginning!) and over the years I've gradually parcelled off the tickets so that my wife and I only keep a few games for ourselves and sell the rest. Many others I know have given up their tickets since the management of the Raptors seemed to have forgotten what the team was about - ENTERTAINMENT! This year's team may well fold big time as the season goes along, but if Sam Mitchell keeps them running and gunning, they are at least going to be entertaining and that will draw the fans back. The problem the last 2 seasons was not that they were losing (although T.O. never backs a loser for long - witness the Jays after they sold off the team following the World Series wins) but that they just were not fun to watch. I'll take a 110-105 loss any day to a 82-78 win.

Actually the Als are owned by an american with a lot of wisdom. He let Larry Smith preside over the team...and with great success! I'm glad of the new success of the Argos...and it seems that the T-Cats are going to be competitive next year...with a new local ownership! It's good for the CFL

How would you explain the support for the Leafs? I think Torontonians have no problem supporting a losing team for years upon years. You just have to be more arrogant than anyone else, raise your ticket prices annually to amounts that the average family cannot afford and tell your fans you don't give a crap about them. This is the key to success in Toronto.

Take a page from the leafs playbook.

Actually, I don't think any other franchise can be compared to the Leafs. They could do nothing and still sell out since no-one wants to give up their seats for the year that they finally DO IT. which might be never....

How good a first week did the Raptors have? They shot from 24th to 10th in the ESPN Power Rankings - http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/powerr...on=2005&week=1 Wow!

The Raptors may be off to a 3-0 start, but they also had the smallest attendance in team history on Sunday night!

How do you explain that??

Super Larry -

I didn't mean to to impugn that fine franchise in Montreal. What I was getting at were the other "local" owners of Toronto sports franchises...specifically the Leafs. As others have alluded, that's where the arrogance is (and I say that as a big-time Leafs fan).

Ref Raptors low attendance so far this year...I think the fans are in a "show me" kind of mood. If the Raps have a good road trip on the west coast (for example going 3-3) then I think you will see the fans coming back.

I was a season ticket holder for the 02-03 season but let them lapse, which given the performance last year was a good move on my part. A buddy of mine bought a 20 game pack this year and I took four games of that. My first game is on Nov 21st vs SA, and if they keep playing like they have in the first three games they are going to be fun to watch.