You know that you live in a sad time when, for the fourth day in a row, the front page story of every major newspaper in the city has an article about major league hockey. Are you really telling me that in a city of a million people, province of four million, country of 30 million, and a world of more than six BILLION people, that a dozen or so men in their late twenties smacking a hard plastic disc around with pieces of wood is the most exciting thing to happen for four straight days! Come on, the only newsworthy part about the NHL is how obscene the salaries are!
Although it is true that I have a generally bleak and somewhat “Chomskian” view of sports in general, and think, like our good friend Noam always says, that professional sport “offers people something to pay attention to that is of little or no importance,” I do enjoy attending the odd NHL game, if only for the social aspect and heroin beer (edit: how hilarious that that definition even exists!). I also admit that hockey plays (pun not intended) an important cultural role in this country and is one of few things that brings people together. But seriously, get it off the front page of the news every freaking day, nobody cares!
I’ll let my good friend Noam conclude, he says it best…
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-Sean.
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