The inaugural season of Toronto’s beloved Football Club has come to end. I must say that I shed a slight tear at the team’s last game on the 20th of October. I don’t think I’ve ever had as much fun at a professional sporting event as I had at the 10 games I attended at BMO Field.

I don’t know what it was that I enjoyed the most: Players playing for the love of the game (heck, they’re the only professional team in the city where players’ salaries are in the 5 figure range), the antics of the Red Patch Boys, the amazing food at the concession stands (chip butties, Red Bull!), or a whole stadium in unison showing its distaste for a bad call by a ref – expletives and all.

I can’t wait for the season to start in 2008 and hoping with a few choice additions (Andy Welsh come back! We miss you!) and the maturing of a few young players, Toronto’s Reds can climb their way out of the MLS expansion team basement.