Nostalgia of a time gone with the wind. Like the lost cause myth, people like to remember them as good but if you look, they were only good as follows
79 80 81 82. 87 93 94 96, so maybe 8 of 36 seasons.
Attendance was shit most of the time, and for the most part they did nothing but let the fans down.
The myth is they were massively loved all over Quebec and Canada is not true. Once the Blue Jays got decent in 1983, the Expos became an after thought outside Montreal.
The fact no one local would buy the team nor build the rink shows no one cared enough to save them.
