Too much

Hello


Today I would like to tackle the men's hockey team and my views on hockey. I know I will cause a lot of grief and pain, but somebody has to do it :)

so I watched the game against Switzerland last night, boy were we lucky to win that shoot out. Aren't we supposed to have a dream team?? Pronger?? Iginla?? Crosby?? What happened?? It wasn't a game it was a miracle. I was pissing in my pants, moaning/swearing every second of the game. "We're supposed to have the mother of all teams!!!" What is going on?? Did we misread the other team?? Impossible even the commentators agreed with me, we're supposed to win this game 5-1! Easy peasy.

So what was happening?? Advertising! We are being told that team Canada (in general) is the best and that we will have gold medals coming out our wazoo! When this doesn't happen we question our team, I know I do. Is like we are overestimating TC and underestimating the other side. So we are baffle by the results. This Olympics I was shocked when several of potential gold medals didn't happen. I was pissed off when C. Hamelin didn't make it to the finals. "What a cocky bastard, he should learn how to skate". I also bitched and ranted about Jenn Heil: "What the beep happened?? I didn't lose gold, I won silver crap!" And one after the other I let them have it.

Team Canada's hockey team wasn't a disgrace....we won for crying out loud!?! Silver is silver for God sake. Why am I such a sour puss?? I expected the man's team to be like the women hockey team, beating others with their spectacular exploits, but the men's team still in the race for gold, right?

I remember a time would I would follow a team without criticising them. It was "we'll get them next year/Olympics/world cup" now I bitched, I get irritated. It's probably just age, maybe I need more fibre, crap I must be going senile...I think what I said before is true, advertising is trying to promote a team Canada that is good, but not that good. I think they are trying to mustard patriotism but it doesn't work for me. I don't like when they lie to me and this is what the advertising machine does, they are selling me super heroes instead of humans.

Oh well, will get them next Olympics!