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Originally Posted by Huysmans
Your two favourite teams while in Montreal were Chicago, and WHOEVER was playing the Habs??
....so at what point did you get run out of town?  |
LOL Quite a few years ago.
I grew up in the east end of Montreal, as an English guy. It was a tough area. I was about a 20 minute walk to the Olympic Stadium, and eventually many people in the city wouldn't go to the stadium for a number of reasons, one being it was stuck so far in the East End of the city.
As kids, many of us English kids cheered for teams other than the Canadiens, and many English did cheer for them. I grew up in the Bobby Orr era, and I knew a lot of Boston fans at that time. The English / French dynamic of that city and province are difficult to explain if you've not lived in "deux solitudes".
Safe to say, I was a huge Expos and Alouettes fan, just not so much a Canadiens fan.