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It is being dubbed “one of the biggest sporting events in Canadian history,” so thousands of Canadians have taken the day off from their jobs at the maple syrup factories to soak it all in hours before there’s anything to soak in.
The Toronto Raptors are on the cusp of winning their first NBA championship in franchise history. At home. Against a formidable team with hopes of three-peating.
In anticipation for monumental occasion, countless Raptors fans have staked their claim outside Toronto’s Jurassic Park to watch the game on a large screen, standing up in a parking lot.
These lunatics arrived a day-and-a-half before Monday’s 9 pm tipoff.
Raptors fans in line to get into Jurassic Park 33+ hours before TOMORROW'S Game 5. Many of them have been camping out since yesterday morning. pic.twitter.com/LklTuC91PP
— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) June 9, 2019
This was the line to get into Jurassic Park nine hours before tipoff. In the rain.
11:30am in rainy Toronto, 9.5 hours before game time, and the line for Jurassic Park is already wrapped around the building. pic.twitter.com/w0fM7YhpZi
— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) June 10, 2019
Jurassic Park @ 9:30am in the rain 🙌🏽 pic.twitter.com/uzyUzPlfzx
— Jess S (@szabotron) June 10, 2019
This was the line of people wrapping around waiting to get into the Raptors team store at 1pm. (The story was already at capacity.) pic.twitter.com/6ga6QNid8C
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) June 10, 2019
This dude reinforced the ‘Canadians are the world’s nicest people’ stereotype by handing out free coffee to those in line.
So Canadian 🇨🇦 this Raptors fan is handing out free Timmy’s coffee to the folks in line for Jurassic Park 😂 pic.twitter.com/i1lUqMibkx
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) June 10, 2019
Truer words have never been spoken…
https://twitter.com/hvnivh/status/1137728315270283265
I don’t know how tonight will play out, but I do know that Jurassic Park is getting burned to the ground by the end of this series. Win or lose.
[h/t Larry Brown Sports]