Well, of course, Roger, here in the Great White North we love hockey
(indeed, with the departure of the hero of 'our' team this past week,
the papers were filled with that front page story for days!
I was certainly in to it back in the days of Gretsky, et. al., but the
game itself is not so interesting now, for one who like me likes the
speed rather than the beatings.... Indeed, at least at the Olympic
level, women's hockey seems much the more interesting game....
And I admit I dont play anything, although I bike a lot....
Doug
On 4-Mar-07, at 8:26 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> Baseball and NFL are like foreign languages to me ... now Ice Hockey,
> that's more like it. Such a simple, violent and fast game. I used to
> follow this years ago when I was around the West Coast of North
> America. I liked the Canadian teams - the Canadiens, the Mapleleafs,
> the Canucks, the Oilers. At the Olympics, it used to be the Canadians
> or the Czechs. Any ice hockey poetry out there?
>
> As for cricket umm. That too rates up there with NFL for an
> incomprehensible dialect. Still Roy Harper has produced a few good
> words, and the calypsos are always a lot more fun than the English
> verses.
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