The Mighty #ucks
The Anaheim Mighty Ducks just won the Stanley Cup. If the preceding sentence does not make sense to you, congratulations, you're an American.
I have to confess something. Hockey is my favorite sport. I love the LA Kings. By implication I hate the Ducks. But much like in college sports, I have to tip my hat to the rival for winning the big one and bringing glory to our neck of the woods. No California team has ever hoisted Lord Stanley's Cup. Not till tonight. After a little more than a decade in existence, the Ducks can claim the biggest prize in hockey.
The problem is that winning the Stanley Cup in hockey is a little less prestigious than winning the Kentucky Derby. More people can probably name the jockey who rode Street Sense than the Ducks' goalie. I didn't even know they were broadcasting hockey games any more, to be quite frank. Ever since ESPN said, "aw fuck it, we'd rather show poker" to their ESPN hockey nights, the game has shifted to the Outdoor Life Network, usually available if you purchase the $4,000-a month cable package that includes Sri Lankan Music Network 1 and 2. NBC covered the playoffs, but then again this is now the network whose sports highlight is the 2036 Winter Olympic Games in Vilnius.
Sometimes, when I'm having cold sweats about a bar essay that asks about mortgages, I wish, just wish that the Canadians perverted the rules of Rugby while Americans gracefully skated on ice and beat the crap out of each other. So guys, how about a Boalt-wide fantasy hockey league next year? Anyone?
I have to confess something. Hockey is my favorite sport. I love the LA Kings. By implication I hate the Ducks. But much like in college sports, I have to tip my hat to the rival for winning the big one and bringing glory to our neck of the woods. No California team has ever hoisted Lord Stanley's Cup. Not till tonight. After a little more than a decade in existence, the Ducks can claim the biggest prize in hockey.
The problem is that winning the Stanley Cup in hockey is a little less prestigious than winning the Kentucky Derby. More people can probably name the jockey who rode Street Sense than the Ducks' goalie. I didn't even know they were broadcasting hockey games any more, to be quite frank. Ever since ESPN said, "aw fuck it, we'd rather show poker" to their ESPN hockey nights, the game has shifted to the Outdoor Life Network, usually available if you purchase the $4,000-a month cable package that includes Sri Lankan Music Network 1 and 2. NBC covered the playoffs, but then again this is now the network whose sports highlight is the 2036 Winter Olympic Games in Vilnius.
Sometimes, when I'm having cold sweats about a bar essay that asks about mortgages, I wish, just wish that the Canadians perverted the rules of Rugby while Americans gracefully skated on ice and beat the crap out of each other. So guys, how about a Boalt-wide fantasy hockey league next year? Anyone?
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 7:42 PM
5 Comments:
This blog is dead to me.
Shouldn't you be flapping your arms for the Angels or something?
The Ducks ceased to be Mighty c. 2006.
DS loves hockey. It's hand-down the best game to watch live. That said, the NHL is as dead to him as anonymous 9:09's dead mother. Notice, DS said the NHL and not hockey in general. It doesn't get any better than watching some eastern European country kick the crap out of the U.S. in olympic hockey.
DS does have to give mad props to the Niedermayer brothers' (and any other old school hockey players who refuse to shave during the playoffs) beards. Guys who beat the shit out of each other and endure the longest playoff system in professional sports all while growing a nasty-man-beard are hardcore.
hockey is an awesome sport. and hockey in HD on a big TV is freakin' fantastic. No more of these comments about not being able to see the puck. Nice wide picture showing how the plays develop. great sound when a guy is thrown into the boards. hockey is like a smaller, more violent version of soccer, with a few less dives.
and the playoff beard is fantastic. we should all have bar beards.
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