Rebuttal: Hockey is Inferior
My wife, a huge football fan (Go Gators), took exception to my post yesterday. After reading the post she almost made me sleep on the couch until I offered her a chance to respond, without edits, on the blog.
Below is her rebuttal.
Hockey is Inferior
Ever notice how a football fan never has to state why football is better than any other sport?
If this blog hadn’t posted its ridiculous statements yesterday about why they thought hockey was better than football, I wouldn’t be writing either.
Hockey is a great sport, fine. But saying that it’s BETTER than football is absurd, sacrilegious and silly.
Top Reasons Why Hockey is Just What You Watch When Football Isn’t On
1. Football has marching bands. Football has fight songs and chants and cheers that have 82,000 people standing, stomping and screaming the same thing at the same time. Hockey has a stale organ pipe and techno music from the early 90’s and songs from hair bands playing over old speakers. You choose.
2. The Super Bowl versus the Stanley Cup. Nobody gives a shit about “Little Lord Farqaad” and his cup. The name “Super Bowl” says it all.
3. Football has cheerleaders. And the girls who love football are way hotter than the girls that like hockey. I’m just saying.
4. You can pronounce the last names of football players. And the regions they grew up in.
5. Saturdays and Sundays are football. Beer, wings and nothing else to do but sit on the couch and watch every audible, play fake and surprise play call. The season is shorter than hockey and every game counts. Every. Game. Counts. If you lose a game in hockey, you just cross your fingers and hope you have enough Molson to watch the same game when it comes on tomorrow night. How thrilling.
One Comment, Comment or Ping
Patrick
1) NCAA Div-1 teams have pep bands. And there was the Charleston High School band in ‘Slap Shot’
2) ‘The Super Bowl’ is a marketing term used to brand the game since the Third NHL Championship game. ‘World Series’ would have made for a better arguement.
3) Storm Squad (Hurricanes), The Ice Girls (Islanders), etc…And they help promote their respective clubs away from the competition venues.
4) If ESPN didn’t show football stuff year round, we’d have no idea how to pronounce TJ Houshmandzadeh unless we lived in Cincinnati (and it wouldn’t be a given if we did).
5). Hockey = Beer. Saturday = HNIC (Hockey Night in Canada).
I can’t disagree with any thoughts that Football is more popular than Hockey. But let me vent for a moment over two issues that have bugged me for years:
1. – The NHL isn’t the game of Hockey, it is a league that plays the sport.
2. – Hockey fans are having to write posts like ‘Top Reasons Why Hockey is Better Than Football’ because morons at ESPN constantly talk-down the game.
I don’t care if you’re getting shitty ratings for NHL games and decided not to renew their contract, but why does every freaking ESPN employee outside of Steve Levy and John Buccigross have to say ‘Who cares about Hockey.’ Let me tell you who cares, the 5-year old boys and girls I have taught in Learn-to-Play classes over the years. That’s who.
Aug 14th, 2008
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