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Toronto Perspective: Buffalo Bills Go Home
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by agora | August 7, 2008 at 11:34 am
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According to Rogers Communications owned Citytv, we Torontonians should be elated about the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers would ever dream of playing in "Rogers Centre". After all, as Canadians, we are just a bunch of glorified "Eskimos" up here in the Great White North. According to this line of reasoning, as Canadians, we should therefore be grateful about anything that corporate America throws our way. Y'all invited to the Samsung Bills Toronto Kickoff Party on August 13, from 4 to 10 PM at Dundas Square. BuffaloBillsinToronto.com indicates that "This is going to be one serious party: the 2008 Buffalo Bills, Bills and Steelers alumni." And even Jim Kelly is going to be coming. Wooppee!
I think not. Compared to the storied franchise of our Toronto Argonauts, that has won multiple Grey Cups, and has a history...
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at 17:26 on August 7th, 2008
So, I'm sensing the animosity. Not sure I appreciate the implication that America is just a bunch of money-grubbing corporate pimps looking to spread the American experience at the expense of your own traditions and history. Sure, you have guys like Rogers, who apparently has made some pretty shady decisions in Toronto with the Blue Jays, and other corporate egos do exist for sure, no argument there. But when I read about "corporate America seeking to destroy the cultural traditions of other societies for the crass pursuit of commercial profit," I just have to shake my head. Is your issue with America, the NFL, corporations or just Rogers trying to woo the Bills into town? Or is this all because you just finally watched "Canadian Bacon" and are pretty horked off about it?
You're not just glorified "Eskimos". Who thinks that?! Ridiculous. Please wield the sweeping generalizations and assumptions carefully and stick with the real issue instead of lumping everyone south of you into the same massive 50 foot yacht with the corporate stooges. If corporate America really wanted to pillage everything you hold dear and turn Toronto into an American annex, they'd send something a little formidable than the Buffalo Bills. Everyone here AND in Canada knows, they can't beat anybody.
That's one American's opinion. Good day.
at 17:37 on August 7th, 2008
The article refers to 'corporate America', and does not refer to the American people in general. Do you make your comment as a representative of 'corporate America'?
If the article made representation, for example, that the 'American people' are greedy, etc. then, that would be a generalization. However, it is well-documented that corporate America has an imperial agenda, and the article refers to Buffalo Bills as being symptomatic of a U.S. corporate colonial agenda, that includes Walmart, McDonalds, etc.