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There Is Just Something About The Game
by Paul on 10/01/09 at 10:37 AM ET
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from Chad Hermann of the Radical Middle at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
But there’s something about hockey.
It’s a Canadian game, and many of the players have French or Russian names, so it’s not exactly an easy sell in the United States of Xenophobia. It’s the red-headed immigrant step-child of the American sporting world, dismissed, frowned upon, and condescended to by a great many people who do not understand it, have never seen it played in person, and are therefore in little position to judge. It barely registers on the radar of millions of so-called sports fans, with precious little print coverage and tv ratings somewhere between the abject boredom of bowling and the Kafkaesque torture of poker. It’s a bunch of guys in sweaters and shorts and ice skates, chasing a little rubber biscuit around a frozen parking lot.
But still. There’s something about hockey.
thanks to a KK reader for the pointer
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