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Toronto offers a variety of top sporting action such as The Maple Leaf ice-hockey team at The Maple Leaf Gardens, or the Toronto Raptors basketball team and Toronto Blue Jays baseball team at the awesome SkyDome. Please click on a link below to find out more about each team... |
Toronto's basketball team offers an insight into one of the most popular sports in the US. But it must be said that they offer a lesser abled team than most of their American counterparts... but the entertainment value for a ticket (only $5!) is exceptional. Brilliant atmosphere in the SkyDome coupled with delicious, massive hotdogs on sale, make it a pretty different experience from going to a regular football match in England. The enigmatic Raptor mascot tends to go into hyperdrive at interval breaks doing alsorts of gymnastics, which can be as entertaining as the game itself. I was lucky enough to witness The Raptors play The Chicago Bulls, sporting Michael Jordan and Scott Pippen, with the hosts eventually losing out 104-102 to a last gasp dunk from none other than Jordan himself. I can't stress enough the value for money you get from this, granted you wont be seeing Jordan and Co. there each week, but the whole package - food/mascot/game - is well worth the price of what you would normally pay to get your pie and pint at your local football ground... so just go now!! |
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Again, another massive American/Canadian sport which is the least exciting sport i've ever watched. And that includes golf. I bought a ticket for the opening game of the season and I have to say that it was dull, uninspiring and boring as sin. For anyone who wants fast paced, action packed entertainment, pick another sport to go see. Needless to say I didn't see another game after this. Baseball is definetly a relaxing sport. In my opinion it's more gearded for a family day out, eating footlong hotdogs talking and joking amongst yourselves in the stands, whilst taking the occassional glance at the 'action' below you on the field. A couple of things to note though. Firstly, you can't argue over the price. At around $5-$10 depending on which seat you pick in the SkyDome, you're not stretching yourself to go a few times over the season. Secondly, everytime a home run is recorded they let fireworks off and generally play loud music. It makes for a great atmosphere, but make the most of it when it does happen as it's not a common occurrence!!... Anyway, for more information and to let you chose for yourself if you like the sport or not, just click on the above link to be whizzed off to the BlueJays official website... |
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Ice-Hockey. What can I say? If you want Canadian and American blokes in full padded gear, armed with deadly sticks fighting each other, while you can comfortably sit in the security of a crowd cheering the melee on, then this is for you! I must admit to being surprised at how exciting this game gets. If you watch it on tv you just think, "where the heck's the puck gone?", for the majority of the time as the camera attempts to follow the game the best it can. Yet watching it live is a completely different ball game, well puck game. A hugely enthralling fast paced game that offers much more than any televised game suggests. Anyway, go see this at the excellent Maple Leaf Gardens venue in Downtown Toronto, although it'll set you back a lot more (around $25) than seats at the SkyDome which can offer less restrictive seating capacity for basketball and baseball. But believe me as the saying goes, "at the end of the day you get what you pay for". This is a richly entertaining sport, one I could have easily watched throughout the entire season... unfortunately for me the season had come to the end when I arrived, to be replaced by the baseball season instead. Lucky me :( |
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