Just this past week, I’ve been putting a lot of thought into considering whether the Canucks are picking me to become a fan (because I am a Calvinist: the club picks you and not the other way around). I think there is no better time to become one than right now.
They are doing so, so very poorly right now. What was it, 7 straight losses at home? Which means great news because a good bunch of the plastics should be driven out by now. No more of stupid girls raising up banners saying “Naslund, I wanna have your baby” because now they are probably too busy watching Gossip Girl now.
And there’s still enough of the season left for me to learn about the game, so I can be ready by the start of next season.
I have been listening to Team 1040 (the Canucks radio station) everytime I get in the car these days, and I was very pleasantly surprised when one of the pundits on there raised the point I have always tried to raise without success: there are way too many teams and games in the NHL for neither of them to matter.
I mean, if you look at, say, the Canucks, you see very little in them that is representative of the fact that they are a club from Vancouver. There are no real rivalries against other teams (I reckon some might say we are rivals with the Oilers or Flames, but I have seen little evidence other than a few silly ‘BOOs’), no real chants or anthems that we are associated with. The only thing I can see is that the fans are mostly half-arsed middle class fat asses (like myself, if I must say), which I guess IS representative of the population here.
I suppose that’s why all you hear people talk about are the stats and the players. You very seldom hear anyone talking about the clubs themselves.
I mean, this is a bit like a Christian talking about the little things they do at church without ever referring to God. They’ve totally missed the point.
Whereas, say, if you were to attend say Man Utd vs. Liverpool, you can probably easily trace a lot of their chants (yeah, they actually chant and sing) back to historical
events, and the cultures of the cities the teams are from.
Although, what is actually sickening is when they decide to play those lousy rock tunes on the PA everytime the play stops over here in North America. We are talking about fricking hockey (or baseball or soccer or football) games, not a night out at the movies or circus for crying out loud. Let the crowd make the atmosphere!
One of the goals I’ve set in the beginning of the new year is that I will go to at least 1 away match with the Whitecaps, be it against the Portland Timbers, Montreal Impact, or against Toronto FC (if I can get a ticket there, which seems unlikely).
Shame we won’t be playing against the Sounders anymore. But I think it’d be fun to head down there when they play against Becks’ team.
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