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.

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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.

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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).

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The Red Patch boys section, they are the Toronto FC Supporters Club.

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Some of the action, a corner for TFC.

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TFC took the lead at the 29th minute and then quickly followed it up with another goal at the 32nd minute.

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Those people in the south end were singing and chanting and flag waving for the entire 90 minutes.

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The announced attendance was 25,032, but it looked like far less than that.

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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.

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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.

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The entrance to the stairwell for the GO Train passageway under the tracks to go westbound.

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I held the camera over my head and took a shot behind, Claudia saw me taking the picture.

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Another blind photo behind me. Almost looks like Angela took a selfie.

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I’m guessing this guy was over in the south end for the game. Here he was trying to get the fans going again.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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They did manage to get on, but was it worth it?

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The eastbound fans waiting for their train.

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One of the new streetcars.

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The eastbound train.

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Our train arriving in the station, notice the guy in the front waving for the camera.

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