Well the Canadian Olympic Men's Hockey Team won the gold. As a Canadian I think it is Federal law that I include that note at the beginning of my first post game Blog entry. So there, I said it!
Alright in fairness, as a Toronto boy growing up in the 70s and 80s, you do not follow hockey unless you had some sort of mental disorder. Hockey was predictable, The Leafs would loose. So I followed baseball; but, honestly is there a sport more boring to watch than a ball game? I gave up on Baseball after two back-to-back World Series wins and a strike, the back-to-back wins sort of felt like mission accomplished and the strike felt too much like a big "Fuck you" from the guys who were paid millions to scratch their male anatomy whilst spitting on national TV.
Maybe that's why I took up more speed based sports? Sort of me versus the clock. And I stopped watching or following sports for several years. Judging by the popularity of the PS3 and Wii, I would have to say I was ahead of my time.
Anyway enough lamenting my lack of sports heroes. Although after my previous rant, I really better say something nice, and this one is well deserved, Yes the Canadians were awesome, they won the gold and nobody expected them to, but we would be lousy sore winners if we didn't acknowledge the outstanding game the Americans had. Truth was the Americans should have clobbered us, maybe the loss in the first game against them woke our boys up to reality but the fact was at times, even in yesterday's game it looked to me like the Americans were skating circles around Team Canada. So yes we won, but I have to ask, why did I never hear the Star Spangled Banner? Maybe I remember wrong but do we not play the national anthems for all three podium countries? And why did no one from Finland come to collect a Bronze? (Or did they get that in a separate ceremony?)
Well enough of winter, I rode my bike to work and it feels like spring. I hope I'm right, shoveling snow sucks and I don't care how much the kids love the good old hockey game.
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