Raptors fans get bad rap

Toronto Raptors in their 19TH season have had a few high points in the franchise's history like the '07 season that came of nowhere and the Atlantic division title or actually win a playoff series against the Knicks in '01 which was followed by a missed shot by Vince Carter that would of taken the Raps to face the Milwaukee Bucks in the eastern finals. They set records for 3-balls on March 13, 2005 with 21 made against the Sixers and Donyell Marshall made 12 which is still a league (tied with Kobe). The Raptors hold a record of hitting a 3-ball in 986 straight games and VC all over ESPN with his dunk performance and let's one of the greatest Raptor's victory in front of 43 thousand plus and given MJ and the Bulls a L at the Skydome in the '96-'97 season when the Bulls only lost 10 games all season. Then there are the lows like Kobe going off for 81 (January 22, 2006) and in the Stoudmaire years the Raptors missed all their free throws til late in a game and ended making only 1 in a regular season game. Let's not also forget a guy like B.J. Armstrong (Raps first expansion draft player) and Alonzo Mourning (traded to the Raps for VC and only wanted to go back to south beach), Antonio Davis and the Canadian school system, and getting nothing for Mighty mouse, T-Mac, and Chris Bosh. Also losing season after season while watching VC roll around on the time after time for parts of four seasons and always scraping the bottom of barrow for Jamario Moon, Carlos Rogers, and mister triple-double himself Ben Uzoh. Then there is a guy like Alvin Robertson who helps the Raptors win their first game in franchise history and days later is arrested at a hotel for beating up his girlfriend. So with that all said the Raptors fans have hung in there season after season putting the Raptors very high on per game attendants since the beginning so if they want to boo VC (they can), if the other team star player gets a star call and they are like we know (that is perfectly fine), if they want to boo the Raps or just sit there (they can just look at the hockey team). When the game is there for the taken they will get behind the team and get as loud as possible and will applaud and boo what and when they want. So if the announcers want to get on the fans for not booing when Darian Durant gets a star call or get ALL OVER the refs for a bad call they need to focus on the game because just like when the players bark at officials instead of playing the game the bottom line is your going to lose the game for yourself not the stripes. The Raptors hopefully enjoy the playoffs and the professionals focus on winning the game leave everything else alone Tom Mehegan