Since the final game of the Stanley Cup championship was last night and since there's likely not a whole lot of folks in these parts that know much about it...or care....I was going to do a blog about the Stanley Cup, about how it started with a dude named Lord Stanley of Preston, about how there isn't a new Stanley Cup trophy made each year, it's the same one, and about how every player's name on a team who has won the Stanley Cup is added onto it for eternity, and all that jazz. Yeah, I was going to do that, but of course, somebody did something stupid.
A quick recap - the game was played in Vancouver. That's in Canada, eh. A team that calls Vancouver home, and who has never won a Stanley Cup in the 40 years of their existence, played a team from Boston, USA. In Canada, hockey is as big as football is here in America, so the Vancouverites?? Vancouveronians?? the citizens of Vancouver were pretty excited about the thought of their team winning their first ever championship and bringing the Stanley Cup back to where every Canadian believes it rightfully belongs - where it all started - Canada.
Well, the Cup stays in America as Boston beat Vancouver, so those crazy Canadians took the loss like any hard working, red blooded
Losing hurts. Having followed Houston sports my whole life, I know. And there's nothing in the world better than burning down your city to make you feel better about these millionaire sports guys that you don't know personally and probably never will, losing their poor little game.
"Those American hosers win again, eh"
"That sucks pretty bad, eh"
"Eh, let's steal a 2-4 of Moosehead and burn a cop car, eh"
"Yeah, eh, that'll teach those hosers, eh"
"Eh"
Once again, I just can't comprehend the mentality involved. That said, wouldn't the world be a lot better place if rather than rioting after a championship sporting event, people would get out in the streets and just do this instead........
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