Ted had a great observation:
So I'm watching Sweden vs. Russia, playing in Italy, and a Mexican folk song sung by an American teenager gets the crowd fired up.
It's a small world after all, eh?
To continue the ugly hat theme from yesterday ..I saw this on Chanda Gunn's online diary:
That reminds me, for the sake of the U.S. Delegation, we did not choose our outfits, especially not the hats. Another reason this was my favorite part was because I got to take my beret off for a while.
Chanda Gunn is one of the American goalies, by the way. Right now I'm mostly concentrating on women's hockey, and enjoying it greatly. Part of that, of course, is just the mere fact that it exists. (During the US-Germany game today, AJ Mleczko mentioned some of the the childhood heroes of the players, like Ray Bourque. She noted that one thing 1998 gave girls was a chance to have women as their hockey role models. Maybe you need to have been a little girl sports fan growing up in a time without seeing women's team sports to really get this, but it still brings a lump to my throat.)
I'm not as excited about the men's hockey. I don't particularly like having the NHL players in the games...it lacks a certain...passion, maybe. It will never be 1980 again anyway, but too often the pro players are just too businesslike. Although I've seen a few interviews with Alex Ovechkin, and clearly he's passionate about going. I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep myself from rooting for Russia. (I told you, it will never be 1980 again.)
Posted by Nic at February 12, 2006 03:35 PM | TrackBack