February 17, 2006

But you play the game on ice, not on paper

Women's Hockey: Swedes stun USA

I was "watching" the game by hitting F5, F5, F5 on a results page on NBCOlympics.com (most unsatisfying...in this day and age should we not be getting webcasts?). A co-worker came in to get me to do actual work while I was trying to find out what was going on in the shootout, and she really didn't know what to make of my reaction to the loss.

I tried to explain that this was like the U.S. beating the Soviets in 1980 (well, minus the geopolitical ramifications). The North Americans have been dominant; the US has only lost to Canada, and vice versa. The gulf between North America and the rest of the countries was considered to be so wide that this tournament was meaningless...play the gold medal game and go home.

Huge! I told her (and anyone else who would listen, and several times.)

The people I work with aren't even sports fans of the regular variety, really. They don't care about the Super Bowl or the World Series of the Final Four, so I guess I shoudn't be surprised when they didn't understand why I was going all Al Michaels over a women's hockey game.

Of course, I don't know if anyone else will get it either. Women's hockey might be even less popular than snakehead fish.

Posted by Nic at February 17, 2006 05:02 PM | TrackBack
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