We headed down to BMO Field at Exhibition Place on Saturday afternoon in the scorching heat. A group from Susan’s office organized the tickets. I have been to a few games with Stam, but Susan and the girls had never been to one. The south end of BMO Field.
There are a number of Pan Am events at Exhibition Place. To the south was the temporary Beach Volleyball stadium. The stadium was packed to see Canada lose to Mexico 2-0.
We only arrived at our seats about 40 minutes before the game, but not much going on around us. We were early enough to get the free Atomic Ant t-shirt (in honour of Sebastian Giovinco).
The Red Patch boys section, they are the Toronto FC Supporters Club.
Some of the action, a corner for TFC.
TFC took the lead at the 29th minute and then quickly followed it up with another goal at the 32nd minute.
Those people in the south end were singing and chanting and flag waving for the entire 90 minutes.
The announced attendance was 25,032, but it looked like far less than that.
It was a good game. I can’t wait for them to re-configure the stadium to accommodate the Toronto Argonauts. It will be good to see them in the open-air stadium.
The game ended 2-1 for Toronto. The Philadelphia Union scored a late goal in extra time. Due to the Pan Am games, they only had two gates open for the game, which meant 25,032 people were all exiting the same way.
The entrance to the stairwell for the GO Train passageway under the tracks to go westbound.
I held the camera over my head and took a shot behind, Claudia saw me taking the picture.
Another blind photo behind me. Almost looks like Angela took a selfie.
I’m guessing this guy was over in the south end for the game. Here he was trying to get the fans going again.
When we came up the on the other side, it was more chaos as the train had come and people were trying to cram on.
If we had enough time we could have got further down to the back of the train and got on easily, but we ended up waiting for the next train.
Notice the one side of the door is closed, the guy in red was holding the door open and trying to get both of them on.
They did manage to get on, but was it worth it?
The eastbound fans waiting for their train.
One of the new streetcars.
The eastbound train.
Our train arriving in the station, notice the guy in the front waving for the camera.
