For about three hours this past Sunday afternoon it mattered. We cared. We hated. Team USA vs. Team Canada in the gold medal hockey game captivated a small portion of our nation. For those three hours we had a chance to hate our harmless neighbors to the North.
Hate Canada? That just doesn't sound right. In fact, it's not that easy to do. Aside from those three hours yesterday, why would we ever hate Canada? Because they have different bacon then we do? Because they have Steve Nash and we have........Nash Bridges?? Wasn't Canada the place Americans fled to when they wanted to avoid the draft during Vietnam?
Watching the gold medal game Sunday afternoon was more about cheering for the underdog, Team USA, then it was shouting at my television, "Canada sucks!" Had Team USA played Russia or heck, even France, perhaps our blood pressure would have been a little higher. Imagine the story lines had we faced off with the old Soviet Union on the 30 year anniversary of the Miracle on Ice. Now that's a game worth throwing the remote around the house over. As for France, well, I'm not even sure they are relevant in hockey. All the great hockey players with French names are apparently from Quebec.
Sure we missed an opportunity to have bragging rights for the next four years, but who really cares. How often do you run into a Canadian anyways? I say let them have hockey. We've got our football, basketball, baseball and really, really good bacon!
Canadian bacon sucks...
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